Subject: Future prospecting...
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:01:30 -0400 (EDT)


To the lurking silence then... it is there in the "On The Refrain"
which D&G let resonate with the idea of the eternal return "as a little
ditty, a refrain, but which captures the mute and unthinkable forces
of the Cosmos" ( _TP_ pg.343). This why the emphasis will fall not on
matters of expression but on "materials of capture", the well made Net,
remembering that a molecularized refrain is given color when associated
with the sea or the wind, is given a little violence. In general a refrain
is a labyrinth, the
great emblem of absorption made, in part, by Borges. On page 347 D&G
wonder if
this emphasis on the ear when speaking of sonorous components that are
the powers or coefficients of deterritorialization, gives undue weight
to sound over visual refrains. This might depend on the ability of
visual refrains to still the beholders distraction by drawing attention
to "the mute and unthinkable forces". In technical communication this
can only be done by absenting one's intentions from the 'work' giving
it intoxicating value, sleeping charm (crossing ideas here with
_Absorption and Theatricality_ Micheal Fried which we discussed
indirectly when we were talking about Diderot). It is the potential of
lurking silence that, in my opinion, as a quasi-reference drives the
upward flow of a protracted communication that remains in the future as
that which provides infinite variation and possibilities for mutation,
the dirfting element of surprise which depending on its critical
strength or the force of singular misreadings is able to make
distinct as much as relate. Capture then, is dependent on  our
hospitality, on techniques of dissappearance or making room.

Ari
University of Tangledtalk



--