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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: "language, the economy of the imaginary"
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 03:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
"language, the economy of the imaginary" occurring in the presence of the symbol's repetition configurations that are corralled in coming together as if there are repetitions but not quite the "not quite" provides whatever constitutes meaning or if "quite" than the meaning is monolithic and everywhere the same and that is not the case, as careful observation demonstrates so there are regimes, chaotic phenomena, the appearance of order and these are the orderings of chaotic regimes, these are meanings "Transjunctional operations become unavoidable as soon as a system shifts from first-order to second-order observations, or, in Gunther's termin- ology, to polycontextural observations. This comes very close to Derrida's attempt to transcend the limitations of a metaphysical phrase that allows for only two states: being and non-being." (Niklas Luhmann, Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing) http://www.alansondheim.org/bebop.mov (thanks to Fau Ferdinand and God who made my dancing SL legs)