File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0401, message 13


From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu
Date: Thu,  1 Jan 2004 18:12:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Adieu to 2003



> geof
> 
> and then there is the question of what is their daughter called.... (and 
> her cat)
> 
> steve

Steve,

On the question of daughters, cats, dogs, lions, and tigers, and bears--oh my!--
I'm less certain.  Punceptual moves, as I am given to understand them, are 
worked out of language such as it is.  There may be other beings 
called "daughter" or "cat," but one's CHANCES in those encounters seem 
different to me the PROBABILITY that one could work out Paul and Carla 
daughter's name from their respective signatures.  I mean, MAYBE, "Carla" 
contains "Lara," but somehow this seems sillier to me that ruminating on how 
the Carla and Paul BLEY together.  To BLEY with Paul"ah" seems less abstract, 
even as it skips pound(stones) across the associative surface.  

Perhaps what I'm cautious of is not so much the daughter as that darn cat in 
purr-enthesis that you have there, Steve.  I mean, you mentioned this cat 
before, haven't you, with regard to various illustrations....it rather reminds 
me of a case I tried to make once here about John Locke's parrot.  

Well, "cats," too, have heurestic value.  Gregory Ulmer, a scholar out of 
Florida who is interested in notions of punceptual invention, suggests the idea 
of CATTt, a mnemonic anagram developed, in part out of Breton's Manifesto 
Surrealism, that considers the im/possibilities of (C)ontrast, opposition, 
inversion, differentation, (A)nalogy, figuration, displacement, (T)heory, 
repetition, literization, (T)arget, application, purpose, and (t)ale, secondary 
elaboration, representability.  

One could go on and on about people's various CATTt's.  Descartes, for example, 
according to Ulmer, utilizes C=scholasticism, A=geometry, T=theology, T=natural 
science, and t=autobiography.  Zizek the same.  You too, perhaps.  

Speaking of cats, Joyce has the best depiction of a cat's meow in Chapter II of 
Ulysses:  "Mrkgnao!"

How do animals go in everyone else's respective countries?

geof

      









 
> 
> 
> gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> >Actually, though, Hugh, come to think of it, perhaps Paul becomes "Paula"
> when 
> >he plays Carla, or rather when he Bleys, Carla.  (Course, in saying as much,
> I 
> >note in looking through Carla's catalogue that she doesn't seem interested
> in 
> >becoming "Carl" in playing Paul.  Interesting that she should continue 
> >to "Bley," however, one wonders about how her continuing to record with it 
> >lends a counter-point to "Bley."  Bad memory? Nothing doing. Paula Bley is
> the 
> >counter-point con-confusion of a proper name neologism.  "Paula" as a 
> >heurestic, paula poundstone as mnemonic technology (i.e. one uses the "a" as
> a 
> >kind of "ah" stone in one's pocket.  "Paula" to, ah, "Carla," perhaps.)     
> 
> >
> >Now, how one moves from Paula Bley to Badiou's St. Paul is a paul together 
> >different matter, and I perhaps it would best to be paul-bearer of this pun
> 
> >lest i cast any more of a paul on the proceedings...              
> >
> >Bebopbebopbebop,
> >geof
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Thanks, Geof,
> >>
> >>for correcting my bad memory.
> >>
> >>Hugh
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>Quoting hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Geof,
> >>>>
> >>>>I thought it was Paula Bley.
> >>>>
> >>>>I just got a belated Xmas book,  Gen. Clark's book, and will make  a
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>report
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>if anyone is interested.  I realize he is no George Bush.
> >>>>
> >>>>regards,
> >>>>Hugh
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Hugh,
> >>>
> >>>Well, Carla Bley, also a jazz pianist, used to be married to Paul.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>There's a
> >>    
> >>
> >>>good Steeplechase recording entitled "Paul Plays Carla" that suggests
> that
> >>>things ended w/o animosity.
> >>>
> >>>best,
> >>>geof
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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