Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 17:35:45 -0800
Subject: On nietzsche section 6 pg. xxvii


In _On nietzsche_ Pg. xxvii (section 6) Bataille writes "the fragmentary
state of humanity is basically the same as the choice of an object."
Fragmentation is always an investment of energy in an object through a
decisive act or intention. This is what would be to act as in to address
oneself with the purpose of achieving the goal of communication, of a useful
exchange of something. In this way we suppress the integrity, or wholeness of
our being, we sacrifice it for the interest of the party, nation, church, or
any relation in general.. In this way as well, we produce a common, cultural
product that binds people together and that operating as a marker of time
spent together constitutes a memory. But what happens when we are seduced by
an eternal return when it operates as a selective "principle" or filter of
information? Or to be more precise, what changes occur to the direction of
the will to expression, thinking, speech, etc.? Are we not bound by a certain
blockage of expression that sometimes we call silence and constitutes a pure
desire, or intentionality without object, end, or goal? Is not the
catastrophic failure of our imagination revolving about a sublime image
withdrawing itself and blurring representation the very subject "matter" (in
the sense of force or event as in that which does not lend itself to being
formed -- that which then precedes the matter/form distinction) of our
imaginative ideas? What is the expression of an impossible speech but a
dissonance whose noise not only encrypts any clear and distinct message but
effectively frustrates any deciphering commentary or interpretation? Are we
not positively illegible and good at keeping secrets? Have we not been
seduced by nuances applied like camouflage to appearances, masks, even to the
screen, after all, an eraser leaves it dirty marks? What are these marks,
this catastrophe of narrative words that at one time I presumed to have a
stable and defining meaning? What is this but a blurring of vision and a
blind wandering with streams of chance as an aging companion flowing towards
the horizon of a sea pregnant with ideas rendering the quest-(ions) through a
shattered mirror tinted with azure in the image of a shaken bag jam packed
with letters thrown for no reason but to start writing like Daniel happy with
what comes to mind in this new year?
 The blockage of expression is a damm by which streams of chance are
recollected in order to magnetize a medium, to activate passages of
communication that induce thinking, that re-direct  "speech" towards a
becoming sovereing, or absolute, while disintricating itself from the
tendency to become identified relative to another term, or mode. But how is
this practice to be understood affirmatively and without opposition as
Bataille suggests?

and he writes:
"I can't choose to become an entire human being by simply fighting for
freedom, even if the struggle for freedom is an appropriate activity for me
-- becasue within me I can't confuse the state of entirety with my struggle.
It's the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against a
particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence. Each
of us learns with bitterness that to struggle for freedom is first of all to
alienate ourselves." (pg. xxvii)

may the worst calamaties invigorate your life in this new year,

Ariosto