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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Froth
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 01:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
Froth When I went through my collected writing in the Internet Text for a forthcoming book, I found far too many of the pieces were depressive, almost suicidal in nature. The irreconcilable logic of the family leaked into a theoretical that would have been, by far, the better had it been purified; I look towards Carnap, Wittgenstein, Jabes, rather than Lingis or Freud. Lacan took refuge in distorted mathesis; I tend towards the diagram below/elsewhere, another leakage from power into the register of cleansed perception; when dirt enters the eye, vision suffers, but not within the aegis of dirt. Below: Filth is hammered among polarities. Of course pama-mapa is certainly a case of entanglement, strings attached. The Other continues an afterimage. Just an afterimage. There is always a blankness, flatness, to the image. The real is already flattened at the horizon/on the horizon: The real is the horizon. { Appearances: falling into the real. ( The inextricable alienness of the world: non-Aristotelian. { Dasein. Someday a post-phenomenologist will begin with the human and devolve, backed up against particles, replete with awkward metaphors. { As if particles were generated by organism. { As if scales implied hierarchies and emergence. { Think of submergence, details lost per particle, recuperated in the { irretrievable ensemble. { Our humanities: struggling with bad metaphors. For cause skims the surface of froth, organization is the masquerade of afterthought. { We bring masquerade to the masquerade of the world. { Instead of nothing, so many things for so short a space and time. { We have no concept of their persuasion. { Of persuasion, anyone; of concept, none. http://www.alansondheim.org/pama.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ltheory1.gif