[D-G] observations

NZ pretzelworld at gmail.com
Tue May 16 13:56:10 PDT 2006


"Those who
list the human weaknesses
are looked at as divine."

for charlie parker's trumpet logos there it can be seen as
mistake-after-mistake. the "faux accident" that defines 20th cent
jazz-man has a performative aspect which is beautiful and divine.
(re:adorno's essay) so like readers of this list who feel that their
space is being re-territorialized from the outside, it is familiar
feeling when the "zone" is invaded - like delueze sees neitszhe
walking around in the philosophical zone... or the feeling one gets
when they are repeatedly asked to concider neitzsche seriously.

at least in the 'jazz-zone" or more generally the artistic-zone, there
is a certain amount of tolerated performance. and indeed when
trans-valuation occurs after the "crisis" at least we can be certain
that this performance is limited to just that zone (although for many
detentional whites it "opened their eyes" to a principle that they had
no previous reason to follow). it is a "safe" place where certain
indescretions are allowed because "we" all already know each other and
interpersonal relationships are positive, communication is possible
because the absolute is commonly understood. (remember that the main
reason "Logic-logos" is needed consistantly across the board, is
because THAT is the only way communicaton is concievable to the system
of the mega-machine, ie code)

with the external presence asking for inclusion, the zone must open
up, not everyone is happy except those lazy-bums who have just arrived
and want to be included. they are the capitalists who would rather not
"comprehend" and instead they expect trans-valuation. It used to be
plain old territorialization, but now to get to such a point, a
crisis-crititia is met, often that crisis is false and will involve
the creation of false-narratives. the false-narratives are what gets
"played out" - they are the performance principles that replace
philosophy as a communication principle. (re: the difference between
"acting with a principle" and "acting for a principle.")

other then the success of jazz(and adorno would ask "has jazz even
succeeded?") we have today the disappointing success of the
u.s./europe in iraq, where instead of freeing the population from
saddam's military, the military is set free and allowed to terrorize
the population... and now the crisis must have it's "philosophical
fix". so in principle "fighting terror" is completely nomologically
correct but only after the fact of making "terror" the ideographic
corner "we need to turn." these are the tactics used by sovereign
intellectuals to enforce their "ethos" over "logos". we have seen it
again and again.... like there is the "crisis" of motherhood which
entails the detentional-female power in "witholding the name of the
father." and the other surprizing false-narratives of the sufferage
movement in the u.s. during ww1, where women were given a right to
vote only if they would stop protesting the war and let the men die in
battle. (I don't mean to just talk about these feminist struggles, but
the point is to see how compromized they are and how the terms of
settlement are negotiated only after faux-crisis.)

I think the real issue has to do with the "paradox of philosophy", the
sophic paradox, which asks the question "how do you know what you need
to know?" for me THIS is the great bend in the road(word) that creates
"the faux crisis of knowledge" and all the detentional codes that
follow.



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