Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 01:45:53 -0400
From: aden-AT-user1.channel1.com (Aden Evens)
Subject: Re: Re[2]: BwO & Expression


Tom posed:

>Karen Ocana's postings are quite brilliant as always.  I am struggling with
>the notion of the BwO myself and I'm now trying to work out the temporality
>of it.  It's a "pure past" isn't it?  That is, a past that was never
>present and that is nevertheless simultaneously always still
>possible--always still to come.  The BwO is the fact that the body *with*
>organs has a past that it still must be.

Pure past. Hmmmmmm. The BwO seems analogous to the past in that it bears
some genetic relation to organism, though it has other relations as well.
That is, there is at least one story in which organism comes from the BwO.
Moreover, it is like a *pure* past in that it is essentially different from
organism: the BwO is not like an organism, except prior; rather it is a
whole other can of worms.

Still, I am not quite sure that the BwO is a pure past. The pure past in
_D&R_ is what makes the present pass, but is not yet the loss of identity
and Self which comes in the third time (ordinally: present, past, future).
The pure past is the Bersonian cone, the fact that every present is only
the greatest contraction of time, hence all of time coexists with each
present. On the other hand, the BwO is not a contraction nor a synthesis;
the BwO is the explosion of identity, the untimely eternal return which
marks the third time. This third time also bears a genetic relation to
organism and is even more radically 'pure' or ontologically different from
organism than is the pure past. But, I guess I am not sure what is
motivating the understanding of the BwO as pure past.

>So I try to understand it in the
>way that Blanchot talks of the "sick" hand in his essay *The Essential
>Solitude*--the hand that cannot not write.

Have you read Agamben's _The Coming Community_ (published in the same
series as the Shaviro book on film)?


>baffled,
>Tom

Waffled,



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