From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu
Date: Sun,  8 Jun 2003 21:52:11 -0500
Subject: RE: The Matrix - Reloaded



Eric, Steve, Hugh, All...

Fascinating discussion concerning The Matrix--been following it from the ground 
up.  W/o breaking the flow, I wanted to enter this excerpt from Deleuze's 
Difference and Repetition w/o a gloss(y):

"It is as if the ground rose to the surface, without ceasing to be ground.  
There is cruelty, even monstrosity, on both sides of this struggle against an 
elusive adversary, in which the distinguished opposes something which cannot 
distinguish itself from it but continues to espouse that which divorces it.  
Difference is this state in which determination takes teh form of unilateral 
distinction.  We must therefore say that difference is made, or makes itself, 
as in the expression 'makes the difference'.  This difference or determination 
AS SUCH is also cruelty.  The Platonists used to say that the not-One 
distinguished itself from the One, but not the converse, since the One does not 
flee that which flees it; and at the other pole, form distinguishes itself from 
matter or from the ground, BUT NOT THE CONVERSE [my emphasis], since 
distinction itself is form...  

...In truth, all the forms are dissolved when they are reflected in this rising 
ground.  [i.e. Matrix]

It has ceased to be the pure indeterminate which remains below, but the forms 
also cease to be the coexisting or complementary determinations. The rising 
ground is no longer below, it acquires autonomous existence; the form reflected 
in this ground is no longer a form but an abstract line acting directly upon 
the soul.  

When the ground rises to the surface, THE HUMAN FACE DECOMPOSES IN THIS MIRROR 
in which both the determinations and the indeterminate combine in a single 
determination which 'makes' the difference [see Vitanza, "Year Zero Redeux"]...

...It is better to raise up the ground and dissolve the form..." (28)

Post-Humanism?  "Raise the Roof"?  No:  "Raise the Ground" =)

Question for Eric:  Does the (RE)loaded" subtitle point to (RE)ssentiment?  

Might you speculate on Ma(t)r(i)X 3 and its subt(le)itle?

re(Loaded),

gc