File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9712, message 60


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_


-- 
                               
        

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005