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The prototype encounters Cabot-Koppers Superfund site in Gainesville, Florida, included within Region 4 of the 10 Regions organizing Superfund administration. Konsult appropriates the discourses of popular culture that inculcate aesthetic attitude as vernacular discourse: tourism, cinema, television, digital games, to develop a behavior or conduct of sitesensing. Call it flavor for short -- #Fla4: fla (Fl) vor (four), to use conductive (Wake) linguistics. Vor as German preposition carries us to the matter. Place (Dative) of course: "though in referring to place only when it indicates condition or rest (if it answers the question 'where?') before, previous or prior to, ere, antecedent to (in time); before, in front of, ahead of (in place); in presence of; for, on account of, through, because of, with (joy, etc.)' from or against (with verbs of protection, warning, etc.); in preference to, more than, above." Let us skip to the adverb: "only in nach vie -, as always, as ever, still, now as before." Still (guide word).
More to come, but to review: konsult functions as flash reason in dromosphere conditions, turbulence of Entstellung (distortion) as norm. Tropics of dreamwork, condensation, displacement, mise-en-scene, secondary elaboration: defenses, nescience, resistance to thought and feeling, diversion as constant turning (away) of attention, framing not just gaze but every part object and its sense: Perception and its cultural project are created (deliberately) to filter out stimuli/information/realization. The logic known as "fetish" operates freely and seemingly without resistance (it is resistance as such): I know, but still... (current locus classicus: "I know Obama has a U.S. birth certificate, but still..."). Cynical reason (Sloterdijk). Against but still, there is flavor.
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Zizek also articulates this logic -- that we know very well that such and such is the case, but still we deny it. What does it mean to be "against" but still? The return to embodiment (sightsensing?)
ReplyDeleteTo continue using Wake logic:
Against "but still" a "still life" -- meaning still, there is life (entelechy, conatus)? We are creating "still life" but "still" also in the sense of "to calm," to appease (the gods, Nemesis) -- to "still time" (still, there is time -- there will be time, as Eliot says). Given time, there is still life.
Finally, I note that the word "still" resonates with last semester's use of "di-still" -- to extract through concentration . Once again, a compression, not a synchronic Now, but a distillation into Moment -- a Moment which gives time, still.
These are the senses of "still" we must recuperate as the Emergency, rather than the "but still" which functions as a denial of something we know very well and choose to ignore.