Subject: Re: [Fwd: The scandal of obligation]
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:10:19 -0500 (EST)


> 
> Ariosto - I found your post very intriguing and am still trying to decipher.
> Would you tell me more about Lingis and the book you were quoting?  This is
> unfamiliar to me.  Thanks.
> 

Yes, that was a book called _The Community of Those Who Have Nothing In
Common_. I have writen about what he says about communication and
memory which has affinities with Lyotard's own critique of
communication as the transfer of clear and distinct messages which
depend on a shared memory to be read or understood. which would
involved say, the re-productive imagination rather than the productive
imagination which as I sense its operation brings into play a sort of
illegibility which slows down reading if it doesn't interrupt it
altogether. It is through this suspension of reading that one becomes
attentive to prescriptives rather than descriptives, that welcomes
the other through meditation more than engaging in explanatory
discourse. I was looking over again at the first part of Levina's Logic
and it seems that what he wants to bring accross is the
incommensurability of prescriptives and descriptives or denotation. In
_libidinal Economics_ denotation is what he calls a semiotic mise en
signe which gives rise to a stock piling accumulation that capitalizes
on reality and blocks off intensities. this stock is called "memory" and is
the basis of a representational theater elucidating a character or ego.

I'm almost done a paper on Deleuze I have been working on so i will have
time to add to discussion soon

happy holidays to all,
Ariosto 


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