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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: The Book of the Word of Philosophy
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:43:56 -0400 (EDT)
The Book of the Word of Philosophy http://www.alansondheim.org/wordofphilosophy.jpg The word of philosophy presupposes it isn't uttered on the streets of Aleppo, under inordinate duress, by those near death, by victims of unspeakable acts; the word of philosophy presupposed the clarity and coherence of the well-functioning academy, of filters bringing those outside, within, of those within, enclaved, of the enclaves, exclusionary with the illusion of transparency and inclusivity, exclusionary with the surgical removal of the other, exclusionary with the differend, exclusionary within the hardly-recognizable superstructure of those who define themselves as the thinking or meditative class; the word of philosophy presupposes the architecture of clarity as well, the authority of proper equalization or the shout of the street brought within; the clean and proper footnoting of the clean and proper bibliography of the clean and proper archival procedures of the clean and proper cleansing class supported by these adjuncts to thinking and the thinking class; all that is entangled as such is tethered in the fragile solidity of air, conference, salary, health and healthcare; the word of philosophy presupposes everything and nothing, is leaky, coruscated, scabbed, troubling, insomniac; and in the pieces below, and others, I learn from the brilliance of others, I collaborate - and the word of philosophy is embodied and embedded, the word of philosophy is no longer lecture/lectern or stamina, is among itself, among its ghosts, the ghosts of Aleppo for example, ghosts of holocausts everywhere singing the praises of philosophy, the choir and chorus of philosophy - and the word of philosophy is another word, a word from silence, from the metaphor of the heart and mind, of the organism - I claim further _this_ is the word of philosophy, were philosophy to speak - were philosophy no longer to be spoken _for- http://www.alansondheim.org/wordofphilosophy.mp3 - Again, presented (new work) and re-presented, the pieces below include discussion by http://www.alansondheim.org/zummeragamben.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/zummerineffable.mp3 Tom Zummer in dialog with reverse reverberation, on an anecdote with Agamben, and the ineffable impossibility of real-time reverse reverberation --- http://www.alansondheim.org/murat.mp3 Murat Nemet-Nejat habitus of the ineffable theory of poesis, poesis of theory interior of the exterior of the container cave troubles --- http://www.alansondheim.org/maria.mp3 (M.D.) Maria Damon I understand that sublimation is the process of repressing the "baser" instincts i.e. the libido in favor of structure and cultural production of some kind, but it also seems as if the same processes and products are in play in the attempt to reach the highest point of metaphysical ineffability and failing; the music, art, high-level philosophical/mathematical thinking that results is the by-product of aiming *beyond* the point of articulability rather than having its origins in the realm *below* it. Of course these are the two sides of the same coin of, say, addiction. - Maria Damon --- http://www.alansondheim.org/cartercreatures.mp3 Azure Carter, discussion beneath the surface --- Then: http://www.alansondheim.org/sondbracket.mp3 --- Thus the _word_ of philosophy is its _doing and undoing_ within the world - like the rest of us - nothing more or less - resting - ---