Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 02:46:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Hectoring the Rector
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 22/11/03 12:17 am, Bakker, R.B.M. de at R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl wrote:

> Now 'Gestell' is the word. In a note to QCT, Heidegger uses
> 
> the crossed-out Sein with regard to Gestell. Can one think of something
> 
> typographaphically more  refusing than: Sein / \, all three at once?

In The Question of Being, in the letter to Junger, concerning 'the line' of
nihilism and the crossing of the 'zone' (a combo of typo-and geo-graphical
metaphors concerning the overcoming of metaphysics/nihilism), there lies a
thicket of crossed-out "being"(s); I've always been fascinated by this
typographical and semantic "refusal" (and re-freshment, the way I initially
read your word, rene). There are many paths one might pass along with
respect to this crossing-out; my first thoughts concerned the notion that
being can not be named ("being" is not the name of any thing, any being),
thus it of necessity effaces itself even as it is being written/spoken; then
there is the notion of being being in the manner of withdrawing especially
in the grip of gestell; then there is the fourfold whereupon being is
'divided' in the chiasmus; etc. So many paths along the weave of being... is
Heidegger trying to show the folds and cleaves of being in its being traced
linguistically, that difference (be-ing, which *is* the difference between
being and beings, the lure of the hyp-hen that unites as it divides) is
different than itself (Heraclitus), the lightening fork that splits the sky
that it belongs with in showing up the sky-as-sky? Barnet Newman's Yom
Kipurring zips...

regards

michaelP



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