From: Goodchild P <p.goodchild-AT-ucsm.ac.uk>
Subject: Ethico-humptydumptotheology
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 96 10:14:00 BST



How do you make yourself a body without organs?

Push Humpty Dumpty (that despot who says what he means and means what he 
says) off his wall:

To use a word, but never to say what one means or mean what one says.
To ask a question, but never to expect an answer.
To issue a slogan, but never expect it to be repeated or followed.
To make a judgement, but never to judge which person or object is being 
judged.

Language becomes free indirect discourse.  With no literary capital to pay 
one's words, they seek other employers.  Humpty Dumpty is fragmented.

Much is lost - clarity, communication, morality, selfhood.
An asceticism of language, a poverty of style, a touch of herb and pure 
water.
Is this the unbearable lightness of writing?

But 'beyond good and evil does not in the least mean beyond the good and the 
bad'.
Which exerts more force, a corpse or a fertilized egg?  One is subject to 
the Spirit of Gravity, the other to its own germinal, intensive forces.  But 
one does not fertilize an egg by mixing up flows through insufflation, 
respiration, evaporation or fluid transmission.  The sexuality of molecules 
does not consist in bodily mixtures, but in a properly machinic process of 
selection, intercalation and serialization.  Molecules acquire a 
consistency.

Problem: to extract a surplus value from words when one is no longer able to 
pay them to work.

It would be necessary to produce something on the outside of langauge, a 
haptic value of language, where words touch each others' territories.  A 
signifier declines away from its signified to meet another territory.  When 
such curves meet each other, recur in each other, and enfold each other, in 
the manner of a vortex, then language attains an infinite speed, and a 
self-positing concept, on the outside of language, creates itself as a new 
seed of thought.

But what is the ethos of the conceptual persona at work?

> Phil,

> Can you explain what your theological commitments are?

> Tom B.

A God of discretion.  A God of the implicit.  A fractalized ethos.  Humpty 
Dumpty reborn, like Dionysos.

Phil (?)

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