Subject: Re: Ludens is the Father of All Things Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:00:30 -0500 (EST) I can't find the D&G quote that got chopped up, what i find of interest with regards to a Deleuze/Lyotard thread was how the construction of concepts is a bringing out of events: "The conconcept speaks the event, not the essence or the thing -- pure Event, a hecceity, an entity: the event of the Other or of the face (when, in turn, the face is taken as a concept. It is like the bird as event." (_What is Philosophy?_ pg 21) This is why paralogy would not create new objects, an event coming out of an immemorial past. I'm thinking about what Lyotard says with regards to the effect on time of narrative knowledge that follows a rhythm: "as meter takes precedence over accent in the production of sound (spoken or not), time ceases to be the support for memory to become an immemorial beating that, in the absence of a noticeable separation between periods, prevents their being numbered and consigns them to oblivion, it jars lyotard writes, the golden rule of our knowledge: "never foget."" (_PMC_ pg 22) The competence of the expert or teacher is made up of the ability to reproduce an accumulated stock of knowledge such as all the bibliography on a writer and then deliberate on its truth. Teaching passes on a memory which is reinforced through testing. The "lethal function" of narrative knowledge is a sort of amnesia as well as an aphasia. This may not be any easier to understand Hugh but I am just jumping in and you haven't before anyways. Hi again. ari --
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