Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:17:22 -0800
Subject: Re: [Fwd: The scandal of obligation]


Ariosto Raggo wrote:
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> > 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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First, let me echo Happy Holidays to all!!!

Second,  Hope you can provide, at a convenient time in the near-future,
a breakdown of some of the ideas expressed above into bite-sized pieces,
and quotes as appropriate, for mutual, leisurely discussion.

The concept of "shared memory" seems perfectly obvious for computers,
i.e. to have resident in the communicating machines their respective
identical copies of required software - but not so obvious for humans.

Hugh


mutual discussion
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