Re: Aisthaesis, transcendence, being-in-the-world

Rene, 

I think I have been quoting from _On Certainty_. I have been tracking
idealization and its relation to the retreat of Being. Wittengstein's
learning process which he describes as an ostensive teaching has a
moment in it which is a sort of "ah... I see experience" where a whole
network of  relations suddenly become apparent and the learner of a
piece of music for instance  knows how to go on without looking  at the
grounds and reasons for playing a piece the way it's played. Playing
becomes an instinctive habit. One is just absorbed in  a function  that
structures action. The other thing is that posting I am saying is not
unlike playing music in a group, not exactly a symphonic harmonizing
band but say an improvisational jazz tribe. Micheal Staples recent post
is a 'good example' of associative free play. Mr. Hegemony-Talk on the
other hand is beating a retreat to the _bunker_ of elitist
communications lost in the details of jargonizing discourse that have
nothing to do with the ordinary table-talks of everyday life and
fantasies, nostalgias and hopes. I am sorely lacking his loving attention.

I feel heart-broken Rene...

Idealization is also at work when a thinker attempts to master another
person's writting through  communication that builds on the pathos of 
consensus on the referent of the writer. Or one simply projects one's 
own conscience on the writer if one is  critical and  judgemental,
seeing the horns of the beast through universalizing definition that
attempts to name the evil one  which one  ought to purify  from
discourse, say "American sociology"  or "American pragmatism".  Of 
course  the referent has  to remain a complete mystery and veiled  in
the  aura of a broad  generalization that stigmatizes the
universalizing naming with the sense of the untouchable.

Since at best  there is local and temporary consensus that are  never
stable but fluctuate and go through metamorphosis communications on the
fly, first-draft quality  and out she goes... email communications are
like improvisational jazz. I can see something familiar  in what 
someone  writes  but that is  like understanding in Wittengstein that
catches a rhythmic flow of associations, a melody that sets a keyboard
on fire,  digressing  in a tensive manner  by a formula that is already
learnt and  which doesn't involve the stoppage of a "should I do this?"
or "should I do that?", a decision making process is completely
irrelevant, you just obey an instinctive, vital impulse. Somehow
phrases know how to go on  spontaneously. Performative action over the
desert  of the screen is just like  this, always aiming  at the silence
of a private language game shaping  sensation into a picture in order
to make a comparison with a reality that escapes us, leaves us dumber
than a door nail. A phrase never arrives at a referent while on idle, 
while  it goes on holiday  and is no longer a representational product,
and in this way,  language remains a promise when the senses are sealed
in a casket, or the seeds of a seminal  sensible reason are planted in
the desert and who  knows  how,  the imagination conceives a child
mumbling and  crying and in need of serious ostensive teaching.

"Do this!" "Do that!" "That's  it just like that...."

Ariosto


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