File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 95


Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:30:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Becoming-expressive of rhythm


> banks" (pg 67). If innovation isn't fully paralogy but paralogy
> necessarily involves innovation ( I still doubt this, I think its
> important to separate the idea of the new and events -- see for
> instance, the last page of _The Sublime And The Avant-Garde_), it seems
> to involve this operation of rhythm as counter-memory which would then
> be a sort of filter of information that would allow one a way of
> 'conceiving' what "access" to data banks could mean as a critical
> activity that respects both justice and the unknown. Maybe a look at
> _Logos and Techne, or Telegraphy_ could help working through more blind
> spots. 

paralogy is not innovation, you are correct. Thus the distinction between 
invention and innovation. There is a relevant article in the most recent 
PMLA by Derek Attridge--perhaps I'll blurb it when I have finished it. 
But he points out something that I was not aware of, namely that 
"inventio" goes back to a tradition of rhetoric (vs. philosophy's 
anamnesis)....

--mark

   

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