The half-century old tape of static and philosophy - https://youtu.be/y8nZeQusrC0 video Now to listen to this, about 3-4 minutes of static at the beginning - don't despair - the tape settles down somewhat into cognitive discourse - a Wittgensteinian self-absorption - but in pieces - as I just said out loud, it's all in my head - Around 1968 I bought a 1968 Grundig DeJur Mini-Memo /EN7 cassette recorder. The machine was only useful for rough dictation. I used it on and off for a few years, taking notes, nothing more. I had a couple of cassettes. This recording is from one of them. Consider that most of the content is 50 years old, that most of it is in reference to my attempts at creating a formalism or phenomenology of the world. Consider the poor quality of the recording. I went back during the past half century and listened to parts of it; I also tested the recording function. The result of all of this is this soundtrack, almost a half hour long. It fascinates me now, since it's a live record of my stumbling and thinking through various philosophical issues I may or may not have been ill-equipped to deal with. So it's a performance as well, a sound track as well. The ideas still resonate with me. There's static in the beginning which soon clears up. Bear with it. I remember an interview I did with a famous physicist; at one point I mentioned some of my ideas. He replied, I don't care what you do, just don't call it physics. Well I didn't and I don't. On the other hand there was a physicist I knew working on quantum logic, and we had, hopefully, fruitful conversations. I don't belong anywhere among professions and professionals, I continue on my own erroneous way. Iterations and stopping and starting a philosophical discourse. The dependency of philosophical discourse on the apparatus. The fictivity and fragility of philosophical discourse when. Considered either as a material object or as a signal. . The self-indulgence of the writer. Am I permitted to even use the word 'philosophy'? After everything else is lost. I remember when it all started - I was typing, perhaps 8 months ago, the word 'when' - and it appeared on screen as 'hwen' - the first time I saw this in any case - now there are other occurrences - as if the writing is degraded from within - it is - in tatters - paralleled by the tape - its degradation - a small tape by the way, not your standard cassette - an x-ray of my mind at that time - in those times - stumbling, backtracking - always those interruptions - is this working - 1,2,3,4,5 - or some such - there must be a word for this circularity - ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The half-century old tape of static and philosophy -
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:02:08 -0700
