tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.comments2022-11-29T23:04:28.174-05:00Routinegluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-85402855365265945792014-04-29T10:59:26.379-04:002014-04-29T10:59:26.379-04:00During the semester I failed to update Routine wit...During the semester I failed to update Routine with posts to support the invention process. Email was our back-channel substitute, and since those archives will soon disappear, I will add some of those posts to the blog.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-74523343857749659322013-02-28T12:51:51.647-05:002013-02-28T12:51:51.647-05:00Zizek also articulates this logic -- that we know ...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?)<br /><br />To continue using Wake logic: <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.Jtrileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05982512687346949724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-18705342584101848942013-02-22T10:37:30.687-05:002013-02-22T10:37:30.687-05:00It is important to note (relative to this scene as...It is important to note (relative to this scene as an example of the aesthetic attitude in general), that when the poem emerges (visitation of the Muse) Ka experiences a feeling of happiness (as did Proust in the prototype of such events), although the feelings and emotions associated with the ongoing events of his life are anything but happy.<br /><br />"So it was that Ka heard the call from deep inside him: the call he heard only at moments of inspiration, the only sound that could every make him happy, the sound of his muse. For the first time in four years, a poem was coming to him."gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-28027179678195075582013-01-24T13:06:33.805-05:002013-01-24T13:06:33.805-05:00My pastiches (takes) of Titian and Kafka are more ...My pastiches (takes) of Titian and Kafka are more or less literal, accepting their fables as templates to fill in with my own materials. Part of the point is just to clarify what might be lost in the quantity of information in AE: that the motivation of the theorietical inquiry and the allegory exercises is to produce my own allegory of prudence acccording to the terms set by the paragons. The konsult poetics should use Ulmer's takes as a point of departure for further development (AE is the Theory of a new CATTt). There will be further posts discussing the konsult CATTt.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-27031751825775169762013-01-24T10:53:05.314-05:002013-01-24T10:53:05.314-05:00Definitely just watched this film last night. You ...Definitely just watched this film last night. You are right--great movie! Jtrileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05982512687346949724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-55805093009630796642012-11-30T17:42:11.546-05:002012-11-30T17:42:11.546-05:00This description was posted previously in the blog...This description was posted previously in the blog of the EmerAgency. I reposted it here because it makes sense to use Routine as a Hub for our seminar, to coordinate conversations and student projects. The previous seminar developed the Cabot Koppers Superfund site as a prototype target for electrate consulting. The student project blogs provide a point of departure for our continuing work on the konsult genre.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-66844155616648520892011-09-02T20:23:47.458-04:002011-09-02T20:23:47.458-04:00Metalepsis, a classic trope, and took me a while t...Metalepsis, a classic trope, and took me a while to get a feel for it. Harold Bloom is the expert on it, regarding how a belated poet appropriates a tradition, in order to seem to be its origin. We experience it in a way in any arabesque, or in a song, a refrain, when we turn about. It promotes ellipsis, omitting the metonymic chain that got us to this moment.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-54238591421033232912011-08-31T03:16:31.761-04:002011-08-31T03:16:31.761-04:00before fatally collapsing into your site, Critchle...before fatally collapsing into your site, Critchley gave a seminar at EGS 2009 The Return of Utopianism, of May 68. This collapses into the multifarious real to the point of heterotopias as Foucault would have it or is it a bunch of bulldust and milkweed blowing across the mediterranean again and again - in a adriatic revolution degree zero. <br /><br />A question of actor-network-system and imho an eco-liberation of sorts. <br /><br />Keep the metaleptic work up, what ever that means!! cheers.ARPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866959727860888188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-86312492027486969422010-11-01T19:41:47.809-04:002010-11-01T19:41:47.809-04:00I'll check it out. One of the motivating idea...I'll check it out. One of the motivating ideas of the original plan, alluding to the role of "economy" in game theory, is an opposition between capitalist commodity exchange vs pre-capitalist symbolic (gift) reciprocity. There is also the more general usage of "economy" in the sense of system dynamics, as in Derrida's "economimesis." I need to commit to relays for Target as well as tale.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-71308950139079115162010-11-01T15:55:18.689-04:002010-11-01T15:55:18.689-04:00Would anything like David Korten's _Agenda for...Would anything like David Korten's _Agenda for a New Economy_ be a possible Target or help to elucidate the tale here?Don Sochahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606776793992755715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-40798442230721316492010-10-29T19:41:59.832-04:002010-10-29T19:41:59.832-04:00More on "Chimney Sweep."
Fear no more th...More on "Chimney Sweep."<br />Fear no more the heat o' the sun,<br />Nor the furious winter's rages;<br />Thou thy worldly task hast done,<br />Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:<br />Golden lads and girls all must,<br />As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.<br />Act 4-Scene II[Shakespeare's Cymbeline]<br /><br />Inspired by discovering that....<br />"A chimney-sweeper can either be a chimney-sweep (the person who sweeps the chimney) or the brush they use for their job. The brush bears some resemblance to a dandelion when it's gone to seed, which is why, in Warwickshire around Stratford-on-Avon, the locals call them "chimney-sweepers". Before the dandelions turn to seed,when they're yellow, they're called "golden boys and girls"gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-60011845492200515772010-10-14T10:48:47.991-04:002010-10-14T10:48:47.991-04:00I was familiar with this case and the phrase "...I was familiar with this case and the phrase "talking cure." I did not know that Anna O. also called it "chimney-sweeping." I was motivated to reread the Breuer case history by coming across a book in my office (untouched for years), an overview of early anthropology. The entry on Freud in the TOC has as its subtitle "Chimney-Sweeping," and the short chapter begins with a reference to the Anna O. case history. I opened the book looking for a quick summary of oral apparatus cognition, totemism and the like.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-5830456886929870672010-03-18T14:23:05.241-04:002010-03-18T14:23:05.241-04:00a delight to read. i'm put in mind of the cont...a delight to read. i'm put in mind of the contemporary Concept Persona "reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping"Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202670655328623223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-6830967148877977312010-03-11T20:07:07.141-05:002010-03-11T20:07:07.141-05:00The hinge word motivating this detournement is &qu...The hinge word motivating this detournement is "Maus" = "Mauss." The text is from Alan D. Schrift, Ed., <i>The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity.</i> The panel is from Art Spiegelman's <i>Maus</i>. I have Schrift's collection on my list as a possible Theory for a CATTt project. When these two sources are combined there is an emergent <i>signifiance,</i> greater than the sum of the parts, or great because of the parts: the connotations of each register comment on the other (the ambivalence of the term "Gift" as "present" and "poison"). A relevance in our context is that the philosophers interested in Marcel Mauss's anthropology of the "don" were looking for a theory of exchange (economy) different from capitalist commodity.gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-23523934832831221682010-03-09T09:07:43.997-05:002010-03-09T09:07:43.997-05:00A great topic: you can defend infelicities as dem...A great topic: you can defend infelicities as demonstrations (in/formal) and accuse detractors of lacking wit. Brilliant!gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-24504660727441100542010-03-09T02:10:05.000-05:002010-03-09T02:10:05.000-05:00I believe there is no such thing as "informal...I believe there is no such thing as "informal syllogism". If by syllogism you mean "formal reasoning from two premises to a conclusion", then it would be "informal formal demonstration". Which ... anyway, you got the picture.<br /><br />BTW: I'm currently writing my thesis on the relation between humor and fallaciousness. :)argumenticshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404099098281245411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-67903309089915016262010-03-05T20:01:01.881-05:002010-03-05T20:01:01.881-05:00This description or claim is derived from the inve...This description or claim is derived from the inventory of "concept" features found in the Theory source (What is Philosophy?). "Concept" includes three registers: concept proper; conceptual persona to perform the thought (vital anecdote); problem field (plane of immanence, image of thought). Concept proper (the actual term, such as "routine" in our case) is positioned by D&G in a post-Cartesian order, within which thinking is not as subject but collective, with "event" replacing "subject" as the site of thought. "Routine" is designed (will have been constructed) to support thought from this collective stand of event, which itself is extracted from "what happens." This sort of thing is what makes Theory so entertaining!gluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940686366088454214noreply@blogger.comtag: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.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348548058792416256.post-70728952121380192132010-01-29T22:12:19.921-05:002010-01-29T22:12:19.921-05:00Can you please elaborate on how the event is “a co...Can you please elaborate on how the event is “a collective dimension of thinking?” Also, how is it that thinking from the position of event vs. from the position of subject moves us into the apparatus of electracy? Can we think of event as being “verbal” (i.e. a verb), so that we move from focus on the subject (of a sentence as well as subjectivity --> identity formation) to a focus on the verb/event, i.e. on what’s happening, on what something *does* (its position in a relational, dynamic network of causes/effects) vs. what something *is* (ontology, literate categorization)? And if I’m thinking along the right lines here, then how is this focus on the event a kind of image-categorization?Richard Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00908656470102949867noreply@blogger.com