Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:09:28 +0000
Subject: Re: cyborg *




Glen

OK. It's clearer - does the disclosure result in a gaining closer to the 
authentic being?  As in the discovery of the 'world' and the disclosure 
that the beings existence, always results from the clearing away, 
eradication of obscurities and concealments.  (I confess to being 
uncertain about notions of authenticity)

I would assume on that basis that a human being - born without the 
ability to think remains a human being?

regards
steve

fuller wrote:

> Steve,
>
>  
>
> So where did the idea that people are ever pre-cultural come from?
>
>  
>
> What I am trying to focus on is what makes something *feel* real, so 
> that you *know* it is real, or rather when something is true you don't 
> really feel anything, it is when you encounter something that is 
> utterly not-true (some form of the other, I am not too sure, not 
> thought about that for now) that there is a fissure, a tear in your 
> simulacra (and here I am inverting 'true' to mean anything that 
> conforms and confirms your personal simulacra, ie 'true' to you). Not 
> what is true, or how it can be communicated in the form of some 
> language, or how it can be proven to other people, but what makes us 
> know true is true (and exist accordingly). That is pre-cultural (or 
> pre-ego based thought), for every living thing has a version, the tree 
> bends towards light, ants follow the line, birds migrate, etc. I doubt 
> any of these things would be having metaphysical debates about the 
> nature of the god 'Fireball', or the evils of chaos and not 
> following the 'Line', etc. It would be so non-true to be non-sensical, 
> nonsense...
>
> I don't mean pre-cultural in the sense of a pre-organised social 
> state, but in a kind of phenomenological effect following the event 
> within the everyday. Perhaps pre-cutural is a bad way to express what 
> I mean, instead of a pre-cutural state, how about an 'affected state'?
>
>  
>
> Glen.
>
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>
>     From: steve.devos <mailto:steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com>
>
>     To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>     <mailto:lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>
>     Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:07 AM
>
>     Subject: Re: cyborg *
>
>
>     Glen/All
>
>>     (Perhaps there is hope for my volcanic rock after all).
>>
>>     I would suggest it would return there first, like a
>>     boomerang;). The return gives meaning in a truth sense (but
>>     definitely not in a reason sense), and inertia to the differing
>>     perspectives, choices, etc.
>>
>     Pre-cultural?  since around 1960 - Western culture - that is the
>     areas of the world that 'we' live in has finally begun to realise
>     that non-human animals are also 'cultural beings' whether they are
>     'ethical' and capable of there own version of ethical behavior is
>     a question for them not for us. (This was not a discovery of
>     western scientists but Japanese). One of the questions that is not
>     being considered in these discussions is whether the application
>     of universalising concepts such as 'cyborg' is philosophically
>     acceptable in these days of empire.
>
>     (since the cat who is wandering around at the moment talking
>     loudly to itself is according to Shawn and Gray a cyborg... i
>     don't think its wise to ask him what he thinks of the idea...)
>
>     So where did the idea that people are ever pre-cultural come from?
>
>     regards
>     steve
>
>>     Pre-cultural does not necessarily mean
>>     pre-that-thing-which-is-I. However ethics is certainly only a
>>     human trait (or a trait which is only capable to be performed by
>>     those capable of abstract thought), don't you think? We apply it
>>     to include other things. I did not mean that a pomo, cyborg
>>     subjectivity can never be ethical, but I created an opposition
>>     between mediation and meaning.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     An example of what I mean is when you return from the country to
>>     the city and the noise is deafening but after a while it loses
>>     its impact and your experience of the noise of the city returns
>>     to how it was pre-country. The filters that you created to hear
>>     in the city are of perception, somewhere between mind and body.
>>     The horror (angst, anxiety) you might have felt with the constant
>>     horns, shouts, motors, etc upon your return, recedes, and the
>>     peace and tranquility of the country becomes another
>>     imagined line of flight, just as the horror (angst, anxiety)
>>     becomes a parallel.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Glen.
>>
>>
>>
>

HTML VERSION:

Steve,

 

So where did the idea that people are ever pre-cultural come from?

 

What I am trying to focus on is what makes something *feel* real, so that you *know* it is real, or rather when something is true you don't really feel anything, it is when you encounter something that is utterly not-true (some form of the other, I am not too sure, not thought about that for now) that there is a fissure, a tear in your simulacra (and here I am inverting 'true' to mean anything that conforms and confirms your personal simulacra, ie 'true' to you). Not what is true, or how it can be communicated in the form of some language, or how it can be proven to other people, but what makes us know true is true (and exist accordingly). That is pre-cultural (or pre-ego based thought), for every living thing has a version, the tree bends towards light, ants follow the line, birds migrate, etc. I doubt any of these things would be having metaphysical debates about the nature of the god 'Fireball', or the evils of chaos and not following the 'Line', etc. It would be so non-true to be non-sensical, nonsense...

I don't mean pre-cultural in the sense of a pre-organised social state, but in a kind of phenomenological effect following the event within the everyday. Perhaps pre-cutural is a bad way to express what I mean, instead of a pre-cutural state, how about an 'affected state'?

 

Glen.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: steve.devos

To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:07 AM

Subject: Re: cyborg *

Glen/All

(Perhaps there is hope for my volcanic rock after all).

I would suggest it would return there first, like a boomerang;). The return gives meaning in a truth sense (but definitely not in a reason sense), and inertia to the differing perspectives, choices, etc.

Pre-cultural?  since around 1960 - Western culture - that is the areas of the world that 'we' live in has finally begun to realise that non-human animals are also 'cultural beings' whether they are 'ethical' and capable of there own version of ethical behavior is a question for them not for us. (This was not a discovery of western scientists but Japanese). One of the questions that is not being considered in these discussions is whether the application of universalising concepts such as 'cyborg' is philosophically acceptable in these days of empire.

(since the cat who is wandering around at the moment talking loudly to itself is according to Shawn and Gray a cyborg... i don't think its wise to ask him what he thinks of the idea...)

So where did the idea that people are ever pre-cultural come from?

regards
steve

Pre-cultural does not necessarily mean pre-that-thing-which-is-I. However ethics is certainly only a human trait (or a trait which is only capable to be performed by those capable of abstract thought), don't you think? We apply it to include other things. I did not mean that a pomo, cyborg subjectivity can never be ethical, but I created an opposition between mediation and meaning.

 

An example of what I mean is when you return from the country to the city and the noise is deafening but after a while it loses its impact and your experience of the noise of the city returns to how it was pre-country. The filters that you created to hear in the city are of perception, somewhere between mind and body. The horror (angst, anxiety) you might have felt with the constant horns, shouts, motors, etc upon your return, recedes, and the peace and tranquility of the country becomes another imagined line of flight, just as the horror (angst, anxiety) becomes a parallel.

 

Glen.