File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 99


Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:17:55 -0800
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Events


Smith, Donald S wrote:
> 
> -Ari wrote
> < That which we called thought must be disarmed." This unilateral
> disarmament of
> <consciousness...
> <Listening with the third ear is not a
> <matter of concentrated attention but an attitude where "you have to
> <impoverish your mind, clean it out as much as possible, so that you
> <make it incapable of anticipating the meaning...,
> 
> Don Smith replies:
> This project of "hermeneutic suspension" it seems was picked up by Husserl
> and carried forth by poststructuarlist philosophers like Derrida, Lyotard
> and others. I think it assumes as a starting point, as identified by Marx
> and elaborated  by the Frankfort school,  that we are in great part
> culturally determined. Postructuarlist deconstruction is one way to
> understand the ways in which our consciousness has been formed and helps to
> accomplish the things Ari mentions above. I think this all ties in with
> paralogy in that in order to challenge metanarratives one needs to
> understand the way in which they have constituted the self. From there we
> can move on to setting new local rules in new local games and free ourselves
> from the oppression of hegemony. Please understand that I am not posing as
> an expert. I am just putting out my opinion to test my understanding.
> 
> Don Smith
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Don, et.al.,

Beware of experts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deconstructionists, and others, including  neurobiologists of
"consciousness", whatever that event may be, are talking us out of the
thing called "self".

The Sokal caper and recent book extract a bit of humor from the
situation.

I have difficulty conceiving of an expert who is not a self, but merely
a fortuitous concatenation of atomic particles.

But I agree with your logic, not paralogic, which seems in essence to
be a tentative step towards decision and action.  Even on a local basis
we must attempt to live.

And since most schools and philosophers we speak of are not alive, since
global hegemony flourishes, we need logic and non-local philosophy
from the living.  Only they can address both local and global needs.

Don't we?

The rest is silence? or gossip? posturing? ego?
 
Best,

Hugh



   

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