Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0708291813070.22802@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Cryptic Philosophy of Dispersion
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cryptic Philosophy of Dispersion Reification as false consciousness in relation to mediation of labor BUT commodities in relation to exchange-value are transformed into fields of exchange - the ontology of commodities becomes a process- ontology (as opposed to state) Statements are reification / residue - their communality establishes virtual community (all communities are virtual) Commodities and statements are field phenomena (re: Minsky, mind) (Field phenomena are virtual) (Processes are virtual) BUT what do we mean by virtual? Processes and communities are measurable through verification procedures inhabiting inscriptions Don't all verification procedures inhabit inscriptions? What constitutes the MATERIAL SUBSTRATE of verification? One can imagine an OBJECT, but one can also imagine a REPORT OBJECTS REPORT Inscriptions are REPORTS OF REPORTS REPORTS SPLIT into constituent syntactical elements Semantics : MATERIAL SUBSTRATE :: syntactics : INHABITED INSCRIPTIONS Rewriting Marx via Lukacs: "A commodity is therefore not a thing at all. The social character of human labor appears to us as an objective character stamped upon processes which problematize the very concept of objective character. Social relations are smeared among processes and consciousnesses, among the social and a hypothetical objectivity. Not commodities, but commodification is simultaneously perceptible and imperceptible, and commodification undermines the very concept of 'thing' as well as 'ding an sich.' The relationships among humans and processes are incapable of disentanglement; we are far from the techne of Marx and classical reification of Lukacs." Rewriting Foucault: "Concepts such as discontinuity, rupture, threshold, limit, series, and transformation all characterize, not only the analogic and digital, but the liminal regions of consciousness and physicality inhabiting (not existing within) the virtual. Now we can call 'formula- tion' the individual or collective process that construes signs, signing, tagging, and/or inscription (keeping in mind that THE VIRTUAL IS ALWAYS INSCRIPTION). Formulation, if an event at all, is a smeared or stained process which can never be localized (located by its spatio-temporal coordinates); it need not relate to an author, issue from an author (real or virtual or bot or any Other/other); if one insists that formulation is performative, then one must also insist that THE WORLD ITSELF IS PERFORM- ATIVE. There is no getting around the sign, getting around with it; it is easier than one might think to get around without it." "_Letter Deity._ Then, think that [the mind realizing the ultimate deity] appears in the sky in the aspect of the written letters of the mantra of the appropriate deity. Think that the mind having the aspect of [realis- ing] the suchness of oneself and the deity as undifferentiable has become a moon disc and that on it [the letters] are set in order [the sounds of the letters mixing with the form] like very pure mercury adhering [that is, mixing completely with] grains of gold. This is the letter deity." (Tsong-ka-pa, The Yoga of Tibet, The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, trans. Jeffrey Hopkins.) Akasa (space, principle of accommodation): "Akasa ever remains untouched by dust and darkness. Dust and darkness appear and disappear; they are contingent; but akasa ever remains as it is. They are not anything that itself arises and perishes, nor do they ever become dirty; not becoming dirty they cannot even be said to have become pure, for they never were impure; in truth they lie beyond the determinate natures of pure and impure. They ever remain untouched by dust and water." (Reworked from Nagarjuna's Philosophy as presented in The Maha-Prajnaparamita-Sastra, K. Venkata Ramanan.) Begin with singularities within a classical Wittgenstein (TLP) / Hertz axiomatic tradition; subtract the logicism; liquify the singularities; channel them through Waddington's chreods; channel them through hierarchic networks; channel them through holarchic networks; eliminate the nodes and channels; transform the liquidity into dust-motilities; transform the dust-motilities into radiations; transforms the traditions into groundless flux-processes; whirl the flux-processes around the interned memory of singularities and axiomatics; report back to the reports; report nowhere; whirl the flux-processes around the reports; remember deaths and annihila- tions; whirl the deaths, the annihilations... http://www.asondheim.org/royrogers2.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/royrogers1.mp3 (Distorted signals from satellite television channel playing a Roy Rogers film; the soundtrack was corrupted. I filtered the result; royrogers2 is spoken-word and perhaps of greater interest.)