Date: 27 Jul 99 15:01:31 EDT
Subject: MB: Re: Death... Thoughts on


And perhaps this is the whole difference:
perhaps all the wisdom, and all the truth, and all the sincerity, are
just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over
the threshold of the invisible.
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I guess one thing to learn in the new "complex" sciences (quantum physics,
particle math) is that there is no such thing as a fixed point in time space. 
There are only probabilities embodied in wave forms.  This can of pringles
does not exist so much as the probability this can of pringles will be found
on the coffee table at 5pm exists (and that at only 99.99999%).  As Virilio
has stated everything is speed.  I urge you to examine the discussion
concering the cargo cult on pages 151-152 of "Looking After Nietzsche" Ed=2E
Rickles SUNY press, 1990 -  It speaks of technologies' relations with death. 
The switches of telecommunication becoming what Freud calls a "prosthesis
god"; that is, he is a god... to the extent that he is living dead.  Isofar as
his sensorium consists only of devices that the dead built to keep in touch
with the living (see DERRIDEAN archive fever), the man controls a phantom zone
he also embodies.  Avital Ronell speaks of addiction and mania in "Crack
Wars".  I think that, while not entirely pertinent to Conrad or Forster (whom
I am not too familiar with, unfortunately), these post modern discussions upon
-death & the other-, Levinas, Derrida, Blanchot... would do well to take into
account the influence of technology and science, from Darwin to Freud, AS not
only what has alienated man from his own sovereignty, lol, or God's, but that
which has the promise to return Him/Her to such (hopefully in a politically
correct manner:).  I would be curious to know what Blanchot would make of
Stephen Hawking... etc.

Just minor observations, sounds like a cool project!! Carry on :):):)

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