Re: ethics

>> "When one encounters art as an event, one obviously brings to bear
>> everything one knows and thinks."

> This doesn't seem so *obvious* to me. You seem to suggest that subjectivity
> is like a container filled with a priori knowledge, oganized around some
> sort of principle of interiority. As I understand it, the encounters which
> allow logics of sensation to be diagrammed produce subjectivities and
> exestential territories; the subject and object do not preceed the encounter
> they are produced by it.

"Thus at the end of _Das Lied von der Erde_ there are two coexistent
motifs, one melodic, evoking the assemblages of the bird, the other
rhythmic, evoking the deep, eternal breathing of the earth."  So the
subject and object produced by the encounter which is being referred
to in this passage involve, among other things, birds, birdsongs, 
the earth, the concept of the earth's breathing.  Where did these come from?  
I am not suggesting anything about containers or principles of interiority, 
but I have no doubt that the subjectivity produced by my encounter 
with _Refrain_, for instance, is one that includes the experience 
of actually having heard Mahler's music.  Any mode of speaking that
does not permit one to talk about this is simply inadequate.  You
don't have to trace the bird and the earth to some pre-existing
container-like "subject" or "object" if you wish to reserve these words; 
locate the bird/earth, if you prefer, in the "encounter" itself; but they 
have to be allowed to come in _somehow_.  When I perceive a piece of music
as played too slowly, this sensation, which tends to completely
organize the encounter, always has to do with preconceived ideas about
the tempo the particular piece should be played at.  And so on.  
My encounter with _Blow Up_ last night was not independent of my previous
encounters with it, other encounters with Antonioni films, other encounters
with film, experiences of factories, capitalism, fashion photography, 
sex, clothes, grass, etc.  I can't believe you'd be questioning this, 
so I suspect I am misunderstanding you.  Please explain.  


-malgosia 

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