File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1998/bataille.9809, message 19


Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:24:57 -0700
Subject: Re: Mob-I-Us Monad




rick issan wrote:

> "(and, I may ask, what philosophy, even in modern times,
> is not founded in some way on a cosmogony?)" P.V. (9/14)
>
> Isn't the function of philosophy a revealing of origins?
> What is this 'cosmos' or ornament (Greek) that directs a
> beginning of a/the search? Heidegger repeats Aristotle's
> underlying principle as astonishment, manifesting itself
> both as a passion, a suffering, and as Origin, an arche.
> Thus, the birth of this wonder, or miracle, could be the
> foundation of which Pseudo speaks. However, modern times
> is without such a mark; the lack is its mark. On another
> time-limit, the death of modern philosophy begins with a
> turn toward both one's personal death and the Death, the
> end times (mythological Marxism). But, neither does this
> reveal a founding. Philosophy: for-in folds every birth.
>

(less than) certain clowns suffer affirmations of dissonant play;
resisting the location of identity.we travel back and forth on a bridge,
being refused entry first on one side, then the other....

a nod with its dukes up to chaos,
ds



   

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