Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:39:10 -0800 Subject: Re: Ludens is the Father of All Things Ariosto Raggo wrote: > > On pg. 61 of PMC, Lyotard says clearly that paralogy is not innovation, > does not bring into play the next/new which is why it is not an > aesthetic sort of gaming stimulating our need for the latest hit from > the spectacle which we all love to consume. As dissensus it throws into > confusion the capicity for explanation. A process he likens to Thom's > morphogenesis, localised catastrophes working through 'blind spots'. A > blind spot, for instance, at that point, where water cooling down, is > no longer fluid and yet is not solid ice. As I see it then, an Event > which displaces the aesthetic concept of the new, pulls in two > different directions at once. Communication, the exchange of posts, is > then as paralogical dissension, a construction of paradoxes that > interrupt, shake up the tendency of thought to settle down, without > contradiction, in subtantives and adjectives. This seems to be, the > exigency of communicative responsibility, its agonic and festive > potentiality where as in the medieval carnival everything goes topsy > turvy and becomes matter for monkey business, the work of idiotic, > radical empiricist, closer to Job than Socrates, write D&G in _What is > Philosphy?_. Deleuze talks about the Greek Agon, in many places, and > first of all, it displaces the notion of consensus, or the idea of > western democratic conversation. The Agon is a struggle with ri concept's > friend; he is potentiality of the concept." There is nothing here to do > with discourse as a propositional conversation dealing in the > subject-predicate order but unpredictable, pure events. > > ari -AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT-2 ARI, Just when I thought I was beginning to understand....... Hugh
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