File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9711, message 11


Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:07:29 -0800
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Query


Arturo Cherbowski wrote:
> 
> Once Again Hello:
> 
>         I will not ramble again now like I just did in my last post. . . I just
> forgot to say, and want to add, that I think Hugh Bone's reference to
> childhood and early-development is key here. . .Lyotard at some point
> seems to have been fascinated by it and puts a lot of weight on it in
> the construction of his latter work. . . I recommend "The Inhuman" to
> all. . . One of the "inhumans" to which Lyotard refers there is the
> infant, or rather the incompletness and indeterminacy that always haunts
> the human but which is strongest and most apparent in infancy. . .also a
> beautiful book in some parts and in many respects. . .
> 
> Arturo
> 
> (P.S.  I mean no disrespect and I am certainly not commimg from any kind
> of P.C.ness. . . but I am intrigued by the name "Hugh Bone". . . is this
> your real name or your chosen pseudonym? If the latter I wonder about
> the possible libidinal investments and charges which it might reveal. .
> interesting because it is not the kind of pseudonym one usually finds in
> theory groups. . . Again, I know it is none of my business and I do not
> mean to offend in anyway. . .I am just genuinely curious and with the
> best intentions. . .)
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Hey, Arturo,

It's the only name I ever had.  How about yours?

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But I'm serious about "obligation" and would like to hear your and
others views.

Lyotard used the example of God's call to Abraham to sacrifice his 
own son.  So it was God's call.  As a believer Abraham was obliged to
"obey".

But there are other calls one hears, calls of "conscience", a real
father
figure (not God) living or dead might call us in a dream or reverie.

Actions one "must" perform as a self-respecting human being.

You don't have to be religious or a mystic, or have an immortal soul,
or perhaps a mortal soul to be "obliged". 

Any comments?

Hugh


   

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