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From: "Soren Pedersen" <speder-AT-post2.tele.dk>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:34:50 +0200
Subject: Re: the character



> the character of being is becoming...
> how can we seperate the essence from the process?
> are we static beings?...well, some of us are,but certainly Baud is not,and
> the whole point of postmodernism is that things are changing so fast we
> can't see them or haven't yet caught up to them,hyperreality...but then
> again humans always seem to be behind themselves.
> havoc

I have always found this becoming/being discussion boring. At 
least I have never been able to get adequate answers to questions 
such as: What is the status of becoming? Is it metaphysical (a 
negative ontology as Fink has named it)? Or is it mythical like 
Hobbes state of nature? What about being? Is being the fixation of 
becoming? Or it is merely a smokescreen that hides the flow of 
becoming? And what about deconstruction that claims that 
essences are always contaminated by otherness; It makes sense 
to say that being is contaminated by becoming, but what is 
contaminating becoming in its primordial expression? What 
preceeded becoming? or the Big Bang? God?

- Soren

Ps. Foucault and Virilio make sense. Modernity succeeded partly 
in disciplining becoming in the great institutions of family, school, 
military, hospital, prison, factory, etc. cf. Foucault. The 
acceleration of hyperreality has now broken these boundaries. New 
cybernetic control systems are in the process of being build to 
regain lost control of becoming cf. Virilio.

   

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