From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Je (:) cri(se) dehor [...] et(re) apres?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:19:22 -0400 (EDT)


wow, I thought I was posting to the Bataille list where, as you know,
we have been causing mischief for what, three years for me now? And
now, I'm thrown like Howard the Duck into a more unknowable
environment, reason gone haywire. Nice talking to you again, I wish I
had more time to put a little study in on some posts here but I'm
pretty busy and looking forward to some time off and paradox festivals
in Philadelphia starting on the 27th. There is some things on idiocy in
_DR_, all I found for now is this: "repetition belongs to homour and
irony; it is by nature transgression or exception, always revealing a
singularity opposed to the particulars subsumed under laws, a universal
opposed to the generalities which give rise to laws." (pg. 5) And on
idiocy we find stuff in Deleuze's chapter on Artaud and the "Sabbath of
stupidity"  And in _The Logic Of Sense_ there is series nineteenth on
Homor:  where "the adventure of humor[ the emission of singularities],
this two-fold dismissal of height and depth to the advantage of the
surface, is in the first instance, the adventure of the Stoic sage." 
(pg 136) It is the abolition of signification through the violence of
humor, the infiltration of dark precursors, that does away with depth
in words; that leaves events of mad-becomings to spread without aim
across a multi-dimensional canvas.


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