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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Philosophy, Simple, Pretension
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
Philosophy, Simple, Pretension Phenomenology doesn't rhyme, all the time. Philosophy in this form isn't serious. Aphorisms are always suspect, unpacking revealing the dirty laundry of language. You have to develop an argument and neologisms help with their wayward vacuity. Pictures are more suspect, and Wittgenstein's formulas appear to be the bones of an irrelevant animal. On the other hand, the formulas of physics and cosmology contain an absolutely untranslatable grain of truth, do you hear that, Badiou? Our place in the world is indeterminate but that doesn't interfere with description and the latitude or epigenetic landscape of the resulting deep sketching. Violence threatens everything but not the world, nor mathesis. Violence is not violence until you are physically touched by it, and philosophy in this form, that of the witness, is always serious and always correct. Do unto others is senseless unless one believes in the imperative. There is nothing that can be _said_ about cosmology. A picture is the decay of the word; neither mathematics nor mathesis are languages. Mathesis and the world is closest to the film which binds, not sutures, the viewer. Meaning washes out of the aphorism; meaning washes out the aphorism. There is no point to decay. On the phenomenological level, decay is everywhere and inconceivable. One can never explain oneself; and the attempt to explain one's writings just increases the bulk of them. Hence the mark is always and already the same, every mark the same mark, except the number; it is the number which may function as the sign of violence, and the word which becomes the diacritical mark. Narrative never understands that thinking is thoughtless. The philosophical example is already lost in thought. Philosophy is what I am; writing is what I do.