Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:07:59 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: a little lack...


>>somehow nechvatal placed a couple concepts in play
>>that ain't never again been heard of- why not? is
>>our want for self so placed amongst comfort that we
>>give up in the space of a little misdirection?
>>tony williams is dead according to the services and
>>we can only imagine an approximate beat adequate to
>>our times. why is theory so often bereft of the pulse
>>of what they call ontology?
>
>
>I'm attentive though a tad busier.
>
>'...[T]he establishment of system boundaries is inescapably associated with
>what I shall call a cognitive point of view, that is, a particular set of
>presuppositions and attitudes, a perspective, or a frame in the sense of
>[Gregory] Bateson ... or [Erving] Goffman...; in particular, it is
>associated with some notion of value, or interest. It is also linked up
>with the cognitive capacities ... of the distinctor. Conversely, the
>distinctions made reveal the cognitive capabilities of the distinctor.'

Seems formalist to me in that it is a tautological structure, I will reveal
to myself through the means ( view point) I have available to me, given
that these means are indistinguishable from that self.    Where within this
is the  putting into the world that would allow effect, that is a changing
of place?  Where is the conflict the irreducibility of one into the other
that induces consciousness ie reflection.  Where is the differentiationtion
between tool and its effect?




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