Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:42:40 +0100 (BST) From: Gondo -Minnie <gondominnie-AT-yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [D-G]grammar used by Pretzel To: deleuze-guattari-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org --- NZ <pretzelworld-AT-gmail.com> wrote: //////-------------/*///////////// > In English, grammar is all we have left of thoth's > rebus, we have > specialized cases I - you - we - he - she - they - > that is all we have > in terms of perspectives standing on that giant > tree. Looking at the > words "are" and "is" and I cannot see any > similarity, not even a > single letter is the same, but knowing the grammar > ("we are" vs "he > is"), I can see they virtually mean the same thing > actually, thanks to > my calorie burning hypocampus. I know this > internally and I can make > up for all the inconsistancies that rhetorical > grammar of the English > provides. > Also from Thoth, the grammar of time seems to be > some kind of ultimate > grammar, especially for capitalism, and PVirillio > (that good catholic) > enjoys embracing this line of reasoning. I enjoyed > his semiotexte > booklet on warfare and currently finishing his > "landscape of events", > but he is so skimpy. I would like to compare it to > Rebecca Solnit's > "Rivers of Shadows" ($5 at www.Strandbooks.com !) > but there is no > comparison. Besides communicating truely radical > philosophical ideas > about time, "Rivers of Shadows" is also an excellent > history of the > standardization of time (annihilation of time) and > shows exactly how > warfare was emplyed to make such a thing occur and > how the war > industry used academia to transform itself into > Hollywood so it could > maintain those rhetorical differends in the present > day. To me I see Hollywood in a race with academia to be winning the price of culture. Both are competitors of value. Yet it could not be possible to trace a clear border that would define one competitor into one camp and the other, in the other, as they are more like general tendencies to which names Have been or are given, in various ways. The tendency to use a certain apparatus, recognizable through the works of art, according to certain likelyhood, could be called "Hollywood", and then they are called by this name. Virilio, skimpy "l'accident originel" one of the book dealing with the museum of catastrophy he has constructed last year. Yet, I aknowledge this book is skimpysh, do you mean like not poetic??yet it's valuable as, and I don't like to say what my thought s are on the Internet, yet I think it could be interesting to study this guy , to do some kind of study of it here for example, instead than (or of) studying Butler or Badiou. He is worthy of something he did. He alarmed me more than necessary, yet I am content he did that, so I can relate to the people to whom this book was addressed (general of US defense I imagine for example he thought about when writing). To relate means not to become tree, or even not to share the same conveniances in ways of being, yet rather, as to what you said there it is not that "he is" and "we are" if i understood the passage, were the same, but that their is a zone of uncertainty where thinking can make up for new imagination of the possibles. a different reality. which causes the body to think "oh, this is alive aswell", in this case Virilio Lets also > not forget that it is the war industry that has > given us the internet > as well. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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