Dear Alan you are very brave to take on the ISISmachine; I am trying to grapple with your texts the images are startling (your images), I gather the silence response is due to the unspekableness of the images relayed from/by IS, and the relentless expansion of their anarchist destruction war on all others not believing; thus we reach from a distance, moving closer, a new dimension that defies our logic but nor theirs; somewhere I read, this is the real islamic spring, forget the arab spring. your texts dissolve with this unspeakableness that western philosophies (Bernard Henri Levy had written on the "dangerous purity" a while back) won't easily manage to integrate because it can't be.
____________________________ From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org [netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] on behalf of Alan Sondheim [sondh...@panix.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:23 AM To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: [NetBehaviour] ISIS-is: the signal isis-is: the signal http://www.alansondheim.org/thesignal1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/thesignal.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/thesignal2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/thesignal3.png Alan Sondheim trying to come to grips with annihilation when for example beheading occurs, not only to foment terror, but as an act of piety, as part of the natural order of things - Alan Sondheim a signal is sent, becomes furious, begins to dissolve, the dance is violent and sexual like a machine gun Alan Sondheim amounting to firing a gun but now up close, the taste of the gristle, trophy of the severed head, chopped hands, gouged eyes Alan Sondheim anything that can be removed Alan Sondheim what does this, what is a response, what is this? ===== [for all]X{not X --> 0} Therefore not X is taken to 0 (null set) Therefore not X is always already processed to 0 Therefore not X is equivalent to 0 Therefore not x is identical to 0 Therefore X --> V (universal set) Therefore X is always already processed to V Therefore X is equivalent to V Therefore X is identical to V Alan Sondheim this came on the heels of a first post I wrote thinking about ISIS and the idea of exclusion - from for all x not x tends towards zero - to x is identical with the universal set, not x is identical with the null set. I'm playing off ideas of purity and exclusion - things like the Pale etc. or the theory in Kristeva's Powers of Horror or the earlier Mary Douglas' (sp?) Purity and Danger. that which is not for me, in other words, is against me, and must be annihilated, and annihilation must be carried out to the limit. so for me the movement is from 'sending' or projecting not-x into the null set, to making it equivalent, to making it identical - a movement maybe from epistemology to ontology - the not-x become - _are_ inherently non-being, eliminated. - Alan Sondheim X doesn't equal not-X. The world divides and hardens between X and not-X; it's a classical division so that the intersection of X and not-X is the null set. What I'm trying to present is the idea of an expulsion and an annihilation of what's expelled. ISIS wants a purified caliphate with only believers; non-believers are expelled or murdered. Could you elaborate on the rest of your post? I'm trying to say then that the annihilation is that of the Other - the Other isn't permitted to survive, and with the death of the Other, the Other becomes identified with 0. Alan Sondheim because it's about ISIS and this is the second in the series - Alan Sondheim trying to come to grips with annihilation when for example beheading occurs, not only to foment terror, but as an act of piety, as part of the natural order of things - Alan Sondheim in the above, a signal is sent, becomes furious, begins to dissolve, the dance is violent and sexual like a machine gun Alan Sondheim amounting to firing a gun but now up close, the taste of the gristle, trophy of the severed head, or there were hands chopped, eyes gouged Alan Sondheim at times anything that can be removed Alan Sondheim what does this, where is a response, what is this? _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
