Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:26:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Bryant <levi_bryant-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Comparing Badiou-Spinozan Void


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 Mike, 
What is the forthcoming book by Badiou that you mention?
Paul
  Mark Crosby <Crosby_M-AT-rocketmail.com> wrote: No access to Angelaki article but, Mike, you might
like.. Proceedings of the Frontiers of
Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics
Intercontinental Conference, University of Bologna,
Italy, October 2000 (stumbled upon yesterday) at
http://www.unibo.it/transculturality/files/proceedings.htm

Articles in PDF like:
* Kenneth K Inada, The Aesthetics of Oriental
Emptiness
* Karl-Heinz Pohl, An Intercultural Perspective on
Chinese Aesthetics
* Allan Casebier, The Other, the Indigenous, and the
Oriental in Contemporary Aesthetics
* Moon-Hwan Kim, Aesthetic Disinterestedness in
East-Asian Way of Thinking

and many others, although the only one I have read is
Masaru Yoneyama, "Creative Chora and Aesthetics of
Place", who attributes the concept of "creative chora"
to biophysicist Shimuzu Hiroshi, which is in turn
based on Nishida Kitaro's "logic of place" which says
that "place is 'that which is not a subject but a
predicate'" and Masuru connects this to "creativity in
informatics"..

Masuru emphasizes that "Nishida's logic of place
involves a severe criticism of substance... It is
remarkable that these elements, ie, holons
(bioholons), are set up on the criticism of atoms and
molecules". Masuru adds that "Nishida criticizes
Hegel's dialectic for being so partial to universals
as to eliminate individuals in the end" (contrast this
with what I recently cited from Peirce saying Hegel
denied Secondness..)

Masuru asks: "Can we leave these fixed points by which
we are bound, consulting [Nagarjuna] ... Needless to
say, the /sunyata/ does not mean that there is
nothing... it is very different from the occidental
'emptiness' which is tinged with nihilism... The true
nothingness FOLDS the being and the nothingness within
it. It is the place where the being and the
nothingness are formed". 

Masuru concludes: "This non-substantial creative
monadology bears resemblance to that of Michel
Serres's 'new encyclopedia' and 'philosophy of
communication'..." -- and, I would add, to Serres's
'prepositional logic'... Mark

--- Mike Reynolds wrote:
> In the Chinese sky, Xu 'Void' is actually two
> stars, alpha and beta Aquarius. In other systems,
> alpha Aquarius is the Virgin:
> http://member.tripod.com/AlphaCnt/aqua.html
> 
> A line of flight with which to compare Badiou's text
> in ANGELAKI, the Void is already astronomically
> placed in at least one system. The Eta-Aquarids
> Meteor Shower occurs at its height near 
> Beltane(May 1-5).
> http://www.skywatch.com/meteor.html
> 
> The genre of Chinese pacing poems(pu hsu tz'u __ __
> __'pacing the void')offers an accompaniment to
> Badiou's forthcoming text.
> 
> I ask the lodgers how the cosmic birth
> Led to such diversity on earth.
> They gladly stop a musical soiree,
> And all my philosphical doubts allay.
> (Wu Yun, Pu hsu tz'u, Canto IX)



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Mike,

What is the forthcoming book by Badiou that you mention?

Paul

  Mark Crosby <Crosby_M-AT-rocketmail.com> wrote:

No access to Angelaki article but, Mike, you might
like.. Proceedings of the Frontiers of
Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics
Intercontinental Conference, University of Bologna,
Italy, October 2000 (stumbled upon yesterday) at
http://www.unibo.it/transculturality/files/proceedings.htm

Articles in PDF like:
* Kenneth K Inada, The Aesthetics of Oriental
Emptiness
* Karl-Heinz Pohl, An Intercultural Perspective on
Chinese Aesthetics
* Allan Casebier, The Other, the Indigenous, and the
Oriental in Contemporary Aesthetics
* Moon-Hwan Kim, Aesthetic Disinterestedness in
East-Asian Way of Thinking

and many others, although the only one I have read is
Masaru Yoneyama, "Creative Chora and Aesthetics of
Place", who attributes the concept of "creative chora"
to biophysicist Shimuzu Hiroshi, which is in turn
based on Nishida Kitaro's "logic of place" which says
that "place is 'that which is not a subject but a
predicate'" and Masuru connects this to "creativity in
informatics"..

Masuru emphasizes that "Nishida's logic of place
involves a severe criticism of substance... It is
remarkable that these elements, ie, holons
(bioholons), are set up on the criticism of atoms and
molecules". Masuru adds that "Nishida criticizes
Hegel's dialectic for being so partial to universals
as to eliminate individuals in the end" (contrast this
with what I recently cited from Peirce saying Hegel
denied Secondness..)

Masuru asks: "Can we leave these fixed points by which
we are bound, consulting [Nagarjuna] ... Needless to
say, the /sunyata/ does not mean that there is
nothing... it is very different from the occidental
'emptiness' which is tinged with nihilism... The true
nothingness FOLDS the being and the nothingness within
it. It is the place where the being and the
nothingness are formed".

Masuru concludes: "This non-substantial creative
monadology bears resemblance to that of Michel
Serres's 'new encyclopedia' and 'philosophy of
communication'..." -- and, I would add, to Serres's
'prepositional logic'... Mark

--- Mike Reynolds wrote:
> In the Chinese sky, Xu 'Void' is actually two
> stars, alpha and beta Aquarius. In other systems,
> alpha Aquarius is the Virgin:
> http://member.tripod.com/AlphaCnt/aqua.html
>
> A line of flight with which to compare Badiou's text
> in ANGELAKI, the Void is already astronomically
> placed in at least one system. The Eta-Aquarids
> Meteor Shower occurs at its height near
> Beltane(May 1-5).
> http://www.skywatch.com/meteor.html
>
> The genre of Chinese pacing poems(pu hsu tz'u __ __
> __'pacing the void')offers an accompaniment to
> Badiou's forthcoming text.
>
> I ask the lodgers how the cosmic birth
> Led to such diversity on earth.
> They gladly stop a musical soiree,
> And all my philosphical doubts allay.
> (Wu Yun, Pu hsu tz'u, Canto IX)



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