File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0311, message 51


Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:46:54 -0500
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: what is the posthuman ?


Glen/All,

(I wrote this last Friday, but couldn't get on the Internet until this p.m.)

Glen wrote:
 > The tension for me is a question of time, and understandings of the
> present.  In a very simple way, is it possible to think of the present in
> some way  that isn't the 'future-past'? I don't see this as a radical
> disaffection due  to the lack of interest in what comes after or before,
rather, it
> is the complete opposite, it is a radical affection for the moment..

A great phrase, the last six words.

Similar is:   "then would I hail the moment fleeeting; ah...stay.... thou
art so fair", translated from Faust.

"Conquest of Abundance" is a collection of short pieces compiled by a friend
after Feyerabend's death.  Much of the message is that "being" is in doing,
sensing, savoring the moment, something that happens to ordinary people, the
expert artisan or artist practicing his/her craft ..

It's not prescriptive or preachy.

G.  J.  Whitrow in "The Nature of Time", speaking of memory, says:  "It is
the means by which the record of our vanished past survives within us and is
the basis of our consciousness of self."

regards,
Hugh



   

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