File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9711, message 67


From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: The scandal of obligation
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:34:50 -0500 (EST)


> Hugh wrote that Ariosto wrote

> 
> >Isn't Lyotard problematizing the possibility of communication as the
> > transfer of messages
> 
> Could be, if you mean he is simply philosophizing about the ever present
> difficulty of picking the best words to do the job out your head,
> sending them to the ears of another in the hope of some congruence
> between his/her understanding these words, their sequence, inflection,
> meaning and what you intended when you spoke the message.
> 
No. Lyotard does not assume a subject who intends to exchange the
meaning of words. In fact as I read him, he teaches us how this
construction of identity is dissolved. This transformation of personal
identity is a micropolitics and constitutes the pursuit of justice in a
preferential option for the margins or the bearing of witness to the
"residue," an unpresentable excess of meaning characteristics of
abstract markings breaking the hegomony of words gathering up letters
into a defining order which covers up the joyfull pleasure of a plastic
line drifting across the desert of the screen without aim or purposed--
Absolved from all utilitarian interests such as that of being clear and
communicative.

regards,
Ariosto





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