tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post7816290664194352529..comments2022-11-29T23:04:28.174-05:00Comments on Routine: Conceptual Personagluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-88769048249679349362010-03-05T19:49:49.897-05:002010-03-05T19:49:49.897-05:00Lakoff and Johnson demonstrate in detail the point...Lakoff and Johnson demonstrate in detail the point that concepts, including philosophical operators (the kind of concepts of interest to D&G), are metaphors (language consists of living and dead metaphors, and much of the vitality of language involves spade work: turning the earth). One of Derrida's primary strategies of deconstruction is to return to the metaphorical root and take a different branch of the vocabulary. "Method" (for example), is Meta Hodos, moving along a path. In literacy the metaphor is forgotten or non-essential to the working word. Part of our project is to reconfigure "concept" for digital imaging environments, in which the sensory dimension of the construct is supported and becomes dominant. It is not just the movement (although that is important) but any sensory element of the assemblage that is foregrounded. Concepts must be camera-ready.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-64169082919350913852010-01-29T22:34:39.278-05:002010-01-29T22:34:39.278-05:00When you write about “the particular way the conce...When you write about “the particular way the concept is oriented on the plane of immanence, its peculiar movement or path,” you invoke the conceptual metaphor of “thinking as moving through space” that Lakoff and Johnson identify in Philosophy in the Flesh. I am interested in the way that you/D&G conceive of the concept (or conceptual persona) as being oriented in a space and moving in a particular way on a certain path. <br /><br />Could we say that it is this movement of the concept that makes it an electrate phenomenon, that enhances the process of thinking “literately”?<br /><br />Now the concept--once a static, ontological equation (“What IS Justice? Justice is…” etc.)--is put into motion: it’s doing something, it’s positioned in a relational, dynamic network of other allegorized concepts, its meaning will be determined by its interactions with these other concepts, the events that emerge from their interactions, the description/mood of that space/place/chora. . . .Richard Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00908656470102949867noreply@blogger.com