From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
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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