Date: Wed Jun 21 06:54:05 1995 From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org> Subject: discoourse o' action ---This is delicious. Fido's comments have been quite a he*lp concerning a certain "second-order" judgment "mechanism" about which I have had some doubts from time to time...But anyways: ---Yes, the business of the heading is indeed important, as fido pointed out in a recent post. While this or that post may operate comfortably within the heading's limits, and that and another post exceeds the limits without conflict, a certain "big view" has to be adopted to grasp the meaning and operativity of the heading. List "proposals" will set a tenor in certain ways. Change the name of the list *before it's too late!!!*. Ok, I've been watching too many *action- adventure* films. Basically, this list would better attain to *thoughtaction* :-) (it wants to, even if it doesn't know it) if it dealt adequately with the problem. Surely the discourses on the "end of philosophy" have by now alerted us to the fact that to call this a "list philosophy" list will tend to mean "sitting around and talking about lists" in a bad (unproducitve, hypicrical) way. Thus: Lists: Proposals and Philosophy. ---What about that "now"? I suggest that it is the impulse of the "now", which wants unhindered movement (no example meant to be made of fido here, seriously, no, I mean, I'm really serious, honest) which is in a certain way inescapeable concerning the header: the "now!" reads the header and does what it will. The header is about the only really manipulable element *aside from authentically and historically bounded community as this forms*. ---Creative and projectional space has to have a metadiscourse to "handle it". This can be plural, not explicity defined, but it has to have this or one can expect the worst. ---What is "Nu?" Never heard it before, but I figure it's like "huh?" --- "It is a site for discussion of lists and other structures that people would like to see added to spoon, and that spoon will consequently consider for addition when we are out of the present moratorium." Well, I'd like it to be more, er, "philosophical". Or else, let me re-enter the *proposal*: Lists proposals and philosophy (LPP-L, something like that.) --- ************************************************************************ "It is only after one ceases to reduce public affairs to the business of dominion that the original data in the realm of human affairs will appear, or, rather, reappear, in their authentic diversity." -- Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic; lying in politics, civil disobedience on violence, thoughts on politics, and revolution. Hannah Arendt [1st ed.] New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1972] pages 142-143 Tom Blancato tblancato-AT-envirolink.org Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti) Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project) 521 Main Street PO Box 495 Harmony PA 16037 412-453-0211 ------------------
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