Hi Dhanashree
these posts are circling (zooming in) on excellent material, prime for
instructions. We need to know from Theory some version of how reality,
the world we experience and observe, what makes it work. There is a
practical dimension to our "pure research," as emblematized in the
consultancy theme in Internet Invention (EmerAgency). And the poetics
and final experiment take up a key point of heuretics and mystory, that,
as Lacan noted (citing Freud also), this dimension we are addressing
(enunciation over/under statement, of desire enframing reflexive
consciousness), may not be treated in effigy. The metaphysics concerns
us (it describes the world we are in today, and proposes a mode of
action and attitude). So these phenomena that we observe and the
"things" and "persons" with which we interact, what moves them,
motivates and causes what we undergo? Drive. Everything circulates
around a lack/void, including in the empty uncanny place [chora] some
materialization that ontologically is objet a (which I write @, for
several reasons we should discuss).
That is what the text says and we
adopt as the correct account (provisionally). We find its slot also in
Jullien, where we learn that the Chinese observed something similar, a
circulation of force organizing all experience, but they accounted for
it with reference to the season cycles, yin-yang (the tai chi). The
Chinese, that is, like the West (Greeks) were attending to life as
bios. Lacan acknowledges the reality of that dimension (obviously), but
adds another dimension that must be accounted for as well in
metaphysics, libido (beyond need into demand, desire, jouissance).
Drive is the force of libido, and its paradoxical features include the
fact that humans are able to gain some bit of satisfaction (of
jouissance) without achieving the aim. It has to do with the capacities
of our sensory organs, their polyvalence, and with the integration of
nature with culture, hence sublimation. There are many ways to say
being, Aristotle observed. Lacan would add, there are many ways to enjoy. No wonder I get a kick out of writing books!
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