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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Flesh of the world -- Flesh of the body -- Being
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 01:49:23 -0400 (EDT)
Flesh of the world -- Flesh of the body -- Being May, 1960 _Flesh of the world,_ described (apropos of time, space, movement) as segregation, dimensionality, continuation, latency, encroachment -- -- Then interrogate once again these phenomena-questions: they refer us to the perceiving-perceived _Einfuhlung,_ for they mean that we are already _in_ the being thus described, that we _are of it,_ that between it and us there is _Einfuhlung_ That means that my body is made of the same flesh as the world (it is a perceived), and moreover that this flesh of my body is shared by the world, the world _reflects_ it, encroaches upon it and it encroaches upon the world (the felt [_senti_] at the same time the culmination of subject- ivity and the culmination of materiality), they are in a relation of transgression or of overlapping -- -- This also means: my body is not only one perceived among others, it is the measurant (_measurant_) of all, _Nullpunkt_ of all the dimensions of the world. [...] The _touching itself, seeing itself_ of the body is itself to be under- stood in terms of what we said of the seeing and the visible, the touching and the touchable. Ie. it is not an act, it is a being at (etre a). - Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, from the Working Notes of there to here as not both here and here, neither here nor here -- -- "my body is made of the same flesh as the world" - incipient accumulative processes, no differing among real and virtual, prim and corporeality, tissue and organ -- emanent life, emanent living -- (clearly these speak to my recent work/theory, and thanks to Sandy Baldwin for sending me to the book)