Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:23:16 -0800
From: carie mcalister <scherzi-AT-shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Virilio



I don't know where that re: virilio came from, i
did not send it, but had edited it into this piece,
which also was not meant (yet) for sending.

Am I already a computer? 




Just read a bit in a little book of Virilio:

It is not America, that brings the world to destruction,
it is the world, globalism that will destroy America (and the rest).

But when this is all certain, one should stop arguing, leave that world
to itself and start something else. Virtually, if you will. (Dasein as
possibility) But more real than a reality that is fading away, fighting
to remain living, 'extant'.
Stay tuned, because it is going very fast now. Didn't Virilio also
mention 'speed'?
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drs. Rene de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
tel. 020-5252368              

After that and after reading a bit of Metaphysical Foundations of Logic or 
from a monad:

The gift that a human being has for another is his or her own 
happy-sufficiency. The obvious basis of all gift-giving, its objectifications 
are surrogates or simulacra.

Happy-sufficiency is the marvelous surplus 
inseparably-being-and-making-present. Its effluence, the radiance that is our 
metaphor for presence and understanding, neither depletes its source nor 
presumes privation nor creates dependency in its recipient. Indeed, all that 
can be received of the marvellous surplus is recognition--like an 
accolade--of the recipient's own sufficiency or independence.     

Alles Gute!

Carie
   


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