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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: social philosophy
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:55:24 -0500 (EST)
========================================================================== social philosophy ========================================================================== [16:49] There is no suitable surface to sit on, try another spot. [2010/03/04 18:11] Flight Band: All Go [2010/03/04 18:23] No room to sit here, try another spot. [2010/03/06 09:00] Flight Band: All Go [2010/03/08 22:26] sensor: noone around. [2010/03/12 09:35] Alan Dojoji: Nikuko: Now we're going to discuss social philosophy. Julu: The social philosophy of being online, the social philosophy of being offline. Nikuko: Social philosophy is always virtual. Julu: Every word you say is virtual; words are not for eating. [2010/03/12 09:36] Alan Dojoji: or of such in this new realm. or something in this new realm [2010/03/12 09:36] Alan Dojoji: but it is this matter of inertia, never overlooking the usual concerns of primates and environments and then [2010/03/12 09:36] Alan Dojoji: on the other hand, the situation of fragility as everything falls apart to be sure [16:52] Alan Dojoji: Its difficult to describe this, yes? But the FUNDAMENTAL issue remains inertia, the ground-state of primate ecology, what works, what constitutes the preconscious habitus. [16:52] Alan Dojoji: Every utopian vision ignores this; every manifesto assumes that behavior is modifiable on a scale well beyond that of taste or fashion. [16:53] Alan Dojoji: I'd think otherwise, towards being constituted by what - UNconsciously is ascribed to essence. [16:55] Alan Dojoji: Fragility comes into play only when deep-structure is obliterated by hegemonic forgetfulness, hegemony constituted by economic power, but also the power of media porosity, subjectivity bound to radio, packages of modernization, tv, net, and so forth. [16:55] Alan Dojoji: In any order. [16:56] Alan Dojoji: These lights in Second Life are blinding me... [16:58] Alan Dojoji: If you think of the Thing in relation to depression, you might agree that the Thing is also inextricably entangled in the psychoanalytical-social. You might think that fragility is the result of an inability to bypass the thing, which inverts, transforms into the catatonic, simultaneously abjures and embraces substance. 0: or f(0) as an absorber [16:59] Alan Dojoji: 1 or f(1) as embracer, but f(x) - perhaps an irrational - refusing position: [16:59] Alan Dojoji: or position only by virtue of the CUT. [17:01] Alan Dojoji: For the most part humans want to continue what they've always done, what amounts to what works or might have worked at a particular point in time. Or say (inexact) space-time region. What becomes custom, what inscribes: what inscribes is fixture, fetish, fixation. [17:01] Alan Dojoji: What inscribes is the HARMONIC. [17:02] Alan Dojoji: That is to say regulatory NODE. [17:05] Alan Dojoji: One might think of the proper mode of BIRTHING or proper mode of DEATHING in this regard. [17:06] Alan Dojoji: I am thinking of: in particular: issues of creation and cessation, but more importantly, issues of SPEW and SLAUGHTER. [17:07] Alan Dojoji: For these abjure the HARMONIC. [17:10] Alan Dojoji: They are THING. They transform organism into THING. [17:10] Alan Dojoji: THING has no HISTORY. [17:10] Alan Dojoji: They abjure HISTORY as well. [17:12] Alan Dojoji: However, simultaneously they exist on the plane of inertia, through the process of compartmentalization. Slaughter occurs, but is set-aside as slaughter: but is set-aside. Productive spew fills interstices, transforms substance into substance, but is set-aside. [17:12] Alan Dojoji: One carries the FRAGILITY of the self into slaughter. [17:13] Alan Dojoji: One swallows the FRAGILITY of the self in the excretion of spews. [17:13] Alan Dojoji: Let it be said: We are all diseased. [17:14] Alan Dojoji: Our inertia is that of culture production radically disconnected, signified and commodified; body inscription becomes the inscriptive body. [17:15] Alan Dojoji: Use-value is inertial; exchange-value, fragile. Which is more deeply embedded in time? [17:16] Alan Dojoji: To be sure, the inertial, which conserves time, hoards time, exists outside of time. [17:16] Alan Dojoji: One overturns fragility with RAGE. [17:17] Alan Dojoji: RAGE decomposes, INERTIA composes; one overturns inertia with the decomposition of fragility. [17:18] Alan Dojoji: What is fragile rarely produces GOOD THINGS; the rest is CATASTROPHE, catastrophe theory. [17:18] Alan Dojoji: The CATASTROPHIC is the unspoken of INSCRIPTION. [17:19] Alan Dojoji: There are no silent partners. [17:20] Flight Band: All Go [17:21] Alan Dojoji: I will escape thee. [17:23] Alan Dojoji: I will break the skin of INSCRIPTIVE PREDESTINATION [17:23] Alan Dojoji: I will find the INCOHERENT in the INERTIAL [17:23] Alan Dojoji: All of this I will transform and more. [17:24] Alan Dojoji: Your THING is my REGARD. [17:25] Nikuko: Your REGARD is my THING. [17:25] Julu: My THING exactly. ==========================================================================