From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca> Subject: Lingis and Levinas Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:46:09 -0500 (EST) this is not exactly on what we have been discussing but its a bit on Levinas through Lingis and my own re-elaboration. In so far as a transmission is a passage that rumbles discontinously and without cohesion it is still laden with value-terms or forces resonating with other forces: "value-terms are not understood in mental acts which operate the systems of information and which delineate the meaning of one term more decisively by delineating more exactly the meaning of other terms; they spread by contagion and spread contagion" (Lingis 1994, Pg. 61) What is most important - aside perhaps that value-terms communicate through tone rather than discursive explanation and argument - is that value-terms as affirmative expressions "are not discriminations of difference within a field maintained by memory. They are not effects that depend on the power of memory but productions that produce the power of forgetting" (Lingis 1994, Pg. 56). In so far as affirmation is woven into a fabric constituted by phrase regimens with-out genre -- it is the magical carpet that animates a surface marked on an exposed side that as a medium of excess communication allows a line to take flight. This tortured period of writing constantly re-marks its own oblivion, its own expenditure with-out return, its destiny without a why. Open lines drift beyond human oriented communication in friendship with insects, animals, and birds. The flight of lines and the roaming of our periods.............. constitutes a contractual obligation (without empirical responsibilities) to the emptyness of the screen, or face. She is the idol that we worship with the polishing of phrases bringing out her sparkling constellations in the night of non-knowledge. think of this in context of what Lyotard writes with regard to memory and capital in _libidinal economics_ --
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