From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: speaking to failure
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:23:06 -0400 (EDT)


Sometimes  I  imagine posting like a crap  shoot, a throw of dice. You 
never know how  it's going to turn out. Communication in this case
would be without foresight, or  hope and one would work more by continous
touch. It would be a sort  of feeling one's way about a surface without
guiding light, without an interest in an end.  I was wondering why this
list tends towards the cross-breeding of BwO's and acephalic  bodies.
Part of has to do with  the fact that both Deleuze and Bataille are
philosophers of immanance. It's not surprising that they  find this in
Nietzsche since he has a heavy strain of Spinoza in  him that no doubt
he picked up from  Schopenhauer.  One of the question  for me is how
does one  go about making one of these bodies  for oneself? To  some
extent it's a question of community, or more precisely of a community
of those without community,  a community of solitudes where that which 
occurs is the emission of singularities, of potentialities. This
emission can only  happen, become an event only through the effortless
effort of active forgetting which interrupts the synthezising
unification of consciousness or  memory that forms the I's organs in
a  utilitarian manner giving it height and depth,  making it interested in
some project rather than indifferently neutral like grass or a hilly
terrain. In the language that Bataille  uses in  On Nietzsche what 
active forgetting would bring about over the years is a letting go of a
care and worry for the future  in order  that we may come to a full
appreciation of the present, it's richness and plenitude.
ariosto


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