Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:58:25 -0500 (EST)


Without support, taking my bearings from an impossible memory, I remember
vaguely Bataille's interest in reading Hegel's immediacy without its
emersion in a teleological purpose, the utility of a conceptual end. I can't
help but imagine this as a motion, a retraction, almost an apology. This
motion is there also in Nietzsche when he rages against the reactive
mindset, in practice, by being actively there, in the immediacy of a
surrounding like an animal looking about. A retraction into the immediate,
motions a gathering, an instinct that takes stock before releasing its
potential. Heidegger discusses this as a gathering together of Dasein's
owmmost possibility from its dispersion in the _maya_ of the they-self,
the nobody who has been leveled into a type. Anticipatory resoluteness as
this gathering which attunes through boredom and anxiety, interprets the
nothing as its object, at least a nothing to a thinking looking for
reasons and ends. Other-wise, the interpretion is of a vibration, that he
describes as an impulse, a sharp motion forward out of the tension of
recoiling intention. So one could say that expenditure without return is
equiprimordial with the reticence of gathering conservation, silence then,
is generative of lines, which is why perhaps, Stevens wrote, that death is
the mother of invention.

just some thoughts on the Go!
Air Raggo...


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