Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: MB: LIBERTSON


>Lars Iyer wrote:
>>
>>
>> - We were discussing Liberton's Proximity.
>>
>But I have still problems to understand what exactly Libertsons means by
>closure.
>Libertson says on page 4 that "closure is a difference: a herteronomous
>intrication with exterior elements, and with the radical exteriority of
>a communicational factor which is irreducible to the proposition of
>closure. Ans closure is a proximity: a pre-originary involvement and an
>uneliminable rapport with this Other of closure which has collaborated
>in the latter's constitution".
>So closure seems to be the relation to the other which is established in
>communication. ??
>
>For Bataille communication seems to be a relation between an opposition
>which is estahblished on a certain level, let's say an existential one;
>that means betwenn two existential heteronomous "terms". However, is
>there something like a methodological instrument to constitute this
>relation? How do  know these oppositions which communicate? Obviously it
>makes no sense to take any opposition and analyse their communicational
>relation. So, how can I establish the "existential level", on which
>communication takes place?


I don't know if this helps you but in _Proximity_ there's a brilliantly
concise discussion of Deleuze's "contemplation-contraction" which relates
to Levinas and to "inner experiece" in Bataille: pp 304-9.

Thomas Wall