Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:06:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Inna Runova Semetsky <irs5-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Valence


Paul
yes i remember you called Deely the great philosopher. 
i also have a chapter on language and autopoiesis --a bit from Varela/
Maturana but mostly juxtaposing Deleuze and Dewey, only definitions from 
Varela. However i was unaware of specifically "languaging" theory in
maturana. Where? I used language there as any means of communication,
mostly extra-linguistic. Paul, do you know of any good conference in
Australia in December, preferably late December? Want to go and stay over
new year. I know of one 2-7 dec. but it's too early in the month for me.
Thanks. 
inna
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Paul Bains wrote:

> At 21:43 18/08/2001 -0400, Inna wrote:
> >Actually examiners were top quality, but ordeal --that's true.
> >Relations sound excellent--how did you do it? semiotics? ethics?
> >psychology? mathematics? social? all of the above?
> 
> I started with ontology, using Deleuze's claim about the externality of
> relations as a guiding thread. Then move to semiotics via John of St.
> Thomas (aka John Poinsot) as rediscovered by John Deely. Poinsot's creative
> intuition in 1632 is that signs, in their referral, are ontologically
> relations (whose whole being is in being-toward 'ad-esse').
> Then discuss Uexkull's Umwelt theory via Deleuze, Heidegger and Deely. Then
> Autopoiesis and Languaging, via Maturana principally. I.e I look at
> Maturana's theory of languaging rather than focussing too much on
> autopoiesis per se. Distinguish Varela's later work but do not discuss it.
> A few refs to James and Russell - and quite a few refs to relatively
> unknown French writers on 'scholasticism' (Muralt, Boulnois, Alliez).
> Just a story that i tried to write in a deliberately non-formalistic and
> simple way. It helped get me somewhere else....
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