File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 105


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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