Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:07:16 -0600 (CST)
From: T-Bone Prone <tbone-AT-Mars.mcs.com>
Subject: Re: human body transformation


What level is that, Alan? Some 'real' level?

On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Alan Sondheim wrote:

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> 
> The earliest writing has been traced to accountancy. Gelb I don't know 
> the material I read is out of archaeology and has been substantiated over 
> and over again. Derrida on this level's irrelevant.
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, T-Bone Prone wrote:
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> > Actually Gelb's work on the topic comes to a different conclusion: 
> > writing originates out of the imperial need for secret codes, secret 
> > missives. Of course, Derrida has more to say about the origin of writing...
> > 
> > On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Alan Sondheim wrote:
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> > > 
> > > Hate to burst anyone's scarified bubble, but writing almost definitely 
> > > arose as a form of accounting; as you know, it's been traced back in 
> > > Sumer fairly exactly to the impress of tokens on clay envelopes. For more 
> > > lurid than ever one can contain, I still recommend Alphonso Lingis' piece 
> > > on the body and primitive in the Deleuze collection re. theater. As you 
> > > can tell, I'm nowhere near my library.
> > > 
> > > It's one thing to flag writing, another thing to flog it, a third thing 
> > > to trace. Even in the "New World," quipu and glyph did their tallying.
> > > 
> > > Alan
> > > 
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