Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:47:20 -0600 Subject: Ludens is the Father of All Things What do you think about th opportunity to apply the fractal geometry , powered by deleuzian philosophy, to Huisinga`s concept of "Homo ludens", and linked to curent topic of discussion, i mean "notion of any kind of the presupposed game within any given scientific paradigm", as such as Kuhn undersood it. One of the things that links Huizinga to Lyotard is the concept of Agon. As Huizinga writes; "the agon in Greeklife, or the contest anywhere else in the world, bears all the formal characteristics of play, and as to its function belongs almost wholly to the sphere of the festival, which is the play sphere. It is quite impossible to separate the contest as a cultural function from the complex play-festival-rite." (p31) Huizinga links war to play (chapter V) for similar reasons. Compare this to Nietzsche. "Every talent must unfold itself in fighting: that is the command of Hellenic popular pedagogy....How wonderful. Whereas modern man fears nothing in an artist more than the emotion of any personal fight, the Greek knows the artist only as engaged in a personal fight." (Homer's Contest - p37 of The Portable Nietzche) There is a suggestion here that the archaic contest, ruled by Eris, the goddess of discord, is related to what Lyotard calls the paralogical. The bastard artist legitimizes herself through divine envy; the spur to make new moves/new games. As Eliot said: "There will be time to murder and create." This is the nomadic war machine of Deleuze, forever opposed to the state. Can you link fractal geometry to this for me (Do you mean the agon of the crooked lines?)
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