Subject: Re: Events Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 01:43:38 -0500 (EST) Some sleepless thoughts, went to bed reading Derrida's remenbrance of Paul de Man, bad idea. I was reminded of what Lyotard says in PMC with regards to temporary contracts (pg. 66). They are ambigous because they indicate something which the system can't fully incorporate. The emergence of language games as a quest for parology would bring into play this excess, exteriority of the system. The broad definition of legitimation that he uses would then mean, in this case, just this opening to excess, knowledge (savoir) which can't be reduced to science or learning (connaisance) (pg. 18) would be a sort of ability to do this. It's not too much of a stretch to say that this know-how is the working-through of anamnesis which Lyotard often thinks as the practice of Cezanne's approach to painting, to color. There does seem to be a localization involve in anamnesis when thought of as a temporary alliance with, given active forgetting, what remains to be thought... an existing, not in a geographical site but a virtual one which would be a way of thinking about the chora, but already I break the bond by suggesting a name. Always temporary because of the tendency to fall back into the old habits is never once and for all suspended, one only more or less is binding oneself to wherever one is at which is a sort of naked intention... an attentiveness to je ne sais quoi, to borrow Montaigne's expression -- a vigilance, in Levinas' sense, that keeps us awake in the night. --
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