Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:02:19 +1100
From: Günter Minnerup <g.minnerup-AT-unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: It's only words...


Dear Howard,

on Thursday, 30 October 2003, you wrote:

> Taken as a whole, as a fully inter-active process-in-laminated product
> functioning in an open systemic totality, and therefore to be considered as
> neither autogenetically produced nor even constellationally closed, but
> rather as a provisional outcome of a heterogeneous multiplicity of changing
> mechanisms, agencies and circumstances, and given that the product forming
> process is generally non-teleologically causal, only socio-spherically
> conceptual (embodying the Taylorian 'Cosmic Geist'?), a structuratum,
> heteronomously conditioned, John Roberts must be taken to be a complexly
> stratified person, an agentive self of multiply determined component
> streams, arrays and aspects of consciousness, full of discordant, disjoint
> or coupled rhythmics bound into sub and partial totalities, important ones
> of which involve eidetic meandering among dialectical pluriverses of
> linguistic structuration (and, what cannot be ignored, of the terrain, or
> transformative field, hierarchically contested and provisionally
> unavoidable, of master-slave relations), but which also disclose a
> taxonomically irreducible mode of concretely singular charm, or of meaning
> transparent, though higher order, dapper-uniqueness, rarely disjoint, and
> often coupled with exotic alterity, though 'West'ern in origin, and hardly
> 'sublime' or 'exquisite', terms which seem dualistically disembodied
> reifications unavailable except solipsistically, as a moment of diremption
> and hypostatized self-alienation.  That said, there is a self-reflective
> overcoming or non-preservative sublation manifested in existentially
> constituted insights we can only hope will transcend an undeniably laudable
> youthful ambition -- and so much the more powerfully if this be through a
> dialectical absenting of absences undertaken without recourse to any
> nescient pseudo Nietzschean, not to say eminently autosubversive,
> Oedipal-Circean,
> cognitive-affective-conative-expressive-performative vector
> designed to detotalize the sectile fundament of Papaverian towering,
> undermining the Umwelt on which his own self-emancipatory praxis, from
> initially formed and continuing primary dyadization or polyadization to
> eudaimonic flourishing, depends.

That's unfair. I was just drinking my first morning coffee when I read this, and now I need a new keyboard...

Regards,
Günter

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Günter Minnerup
School of History
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
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Tel. (+61 2) 9398 3646 (home)
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