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From: Bill9191@xxxxxxx
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:37:12 EDT
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Hi Ruth,
Thanks for your reply. I'm am trying to apply these things I read about
syntheses to all that has happened lately.
What happens as we talk about the planes running into the WTO and the
Pentagon as illegitimate uses of the syntheses? Its seems to me that running
a jet into a building is like demanding that one's own interpretation is
going to dominate, that the multifold connections made possible by the
buildings and the jets have been reduced to rubble, to something past a limit
from which less can return. Nothing has been liberated or freed, but all has
been reduced to a few piles of the same. The repetition of differences has
been changed to repitition of the same.
What kind of recording surface is this? I'm not even sure how to get at
this, but I can see the macro manifestations in nationalism, talk of more
destruction and revenge, loss of innocence, global witch hunts and the loss
of a society that might show any signs of tolerance to difference. These are
all at the object level, so I am just guessing that the collape of the
buildings is like a pseudo-surface that falls back in on itself and
appropriates all the connections for itself. As my friend said, she is
"glued" to the TV, but its the attempt to cathect with the trauma, the rubble
body-without-organs has repulsed all attempts to connect with it and has
distributed these connections across the globe as so many TV eyeballs. Yet
something restricts the relations, and the eyeballs relate better than the
rest of the body, which has been excluded from this event. We give blood for
victims that don't exist. The surface of this event has fallen back upon
itself and aborbs everything. It produces illegitimate subjectivity as well,
exlusive us vs them, even if the "them" remains faceless. As we learned in
the movie Alien, the faceless monster always produces a grid of terror far
wider than a complete object. Now subjectivities produced are nationalisitc,
picking sides, machines of hatred, of revenge. The BW/O makes us nauseous as
it becomes slippery taut and too early distributes relations all pre-pared by
media questions about whether or not to play baseball this weekend.
If so, the question for me becomes how to bring together social forces in a
way that allow the BW/O to operate as a legitimate distributor. Finding an
identity for production and product is almost impossible for the individual
when we are talking about running a jet into a building of 5000. It was not
a jet anymore. Even the word bomb is a stupidly small brick. The jet had
been turned into a fascist state and the WTO into a human oven.
-Bill
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Hi Ruth,
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<BR> Thanks for your reply. I'm am trying to apply these things I read about syntheses to all that has happened lately.
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<BR> What happens as we talk about the planes running into the WTO and the Pentagon as illegitimate uses of the syntheses? Its seems to me that running a jet into a building is like demanding that one's own interpretation is going to dominate, that the multifold connections made possible by the buildings and the jets have been reduced to rubble, to something past a limit from which less can return. Nothing has been liberated or freed, but all has been reduced to a few piles of the same. The repetition of differences has been changed to repitition of the same.
<BR> What kind of recording surface is this? I'm not even sure how to get at this, but I can see the macro manifestations in nationalism, talk of more destruction and revenge, loss of innocence, global witch hunts and the loss of a society that might show any signs of tolerance to difference. These are all at the object level, so I am just guessing that the collape of the buildings is like a pseudo-surface that falls back in on itself and appropriates all the connections for itself. As my friend said, she is "glued" to the TV, but its the attempt to cathect with the trauma, the rubble body-without-organs has repulsed all attempts to connect with it and has distributed these connections across the globe as so many TV eyeballs. Yet something restricts the relations, and the eyeballs relate better than the rest of the body, which has been excluded from this event. We give blood for victims that don't exist. The surface of this event has fallen back upon itself and aborbs everything. It produces illegitimate subjectivity as well, exlusive us vs them, even if the "them" remains faceless. As we learned in the movie Alien, the faceless monster always produces a grid of terror far wider than a complete object. Now subjectivities produced are nationalisitc, picking sides, machines of hatred, of revenge. The BW/O makes us nauseous as it becomes slippery taut and too early distributes relations all pre-pared by media questions about whether or not to play baseball this weekend.
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<BR>If so, the question for me becomes how to bring together social forces in a way that allow the BW/O to operate as a legitimate distributor. Finding an identity for production and product is almost impossible for the individual when we are talking about running a jet into a building of 5000. It was not a jet anymore. Even the word bomb is a stupidly small brick. The jet had been turned into a fascist state and the WTO into a human oven.
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<BR> -Bill</FONT></HTML>
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