File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 101


Subject: Re: Events
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:48:05 -0500 (EST)


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When we remember, "the will is inactive in this case, as in the coming
of any thought." (WTP section 502)

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This process of becoming-conscious is how "our organs of knowledge and
our senses are developed only with regard to conditions of preservation
and growth." Inventive force, in this case, is driven by "our need for
security, for quick understanding [the reactive speed of memory] on the
basis of signs and sounds, for means of abbreviation" (section 513).
knowledge then, as inventive force, schematizes, or imposes regularity
of form based on the need for self-preservation while following
utilitarian goals;-- and for this reason (the pscychological cause
mentioned above) substantives emerge like, "substance," "soul,"
"subject," "being," and so on. In general, it is a coarsening of
experience that makes us equal and so founds our ability to be
intelligible, understandable, and an easy as can be communicative
interlocutor, after all, we share the same substantives, adjectives,
and properties. The social bond is strong. 

ah, maybe I'll erase that last line.

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