[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 1.1
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 1.1
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In 1978, I programmed with a TI59 calculator, later with a Terak
minicomputer. I produced a number of pieces gathered together in
a publication, Syntactical and Semantic Programming. This was an
extension of material I was writing on the elimination of entities
and the concept of a procedural semiotics. The heart of this is as
follows (with commentary, 2019) -
1.
An event may be defined as the union of its k-ply intersections of
its set of descriptions. Consider a set of descriptions that one
might apply to an otherwise undefined event E. These descriptions
have a number of elements which overlap to any particular depth; a
depth of 1 indicates that every description is given equal value,
and a depth of N (number of descriptions) applies to taking only
what all of them have in common in terms of attributes. Depth can
be assigned to any number n, from 1 to N. The union of depths can
considered in various ways and weights. There are no events to be
considered beyond the set of descriptions; priority is given to
epistemology, not a process ontology. There are no hard and fast
rules, no absolute categories, and every ontology in the long run
is inadequate, momentary.
2.
An entity may be defined as the union of its k-ply intersections
of its list of attributes. See above.
3.
"Intersection" above is defined by a probabilistic matching
algorithm; "union" is concatenation or summation. The operations
can be interpreted any way one wants; the main point is the
elimination of ontology - which is interpretable as necessarily
inadequate. So one moves among digital epistemologies, hoping for
the best - not among fundamental ontologies of a real - which is
ultimately unknowable (for example multiverses, Planck limits
etc.) - everything exists only within a phenomenology of approach
- not within well-defined domains of the real. The more one moves
from physics towards the social, organic, and so forth, the more
one is at a loss, insofar as categories are concerned.
(Note that any description might be considered in terms of a core
and outliers; the former is an equivalence subset in relation to
other descriptions, and the outliers are embedded or related
attributes "along for the ride." Give two descriptions, _abcde_
and _acdfh_, the core would be _acd_ and the outliers would be
_befh_. The cores appear to define an event or entity; the
outliers, to the extent they might be considered "sticky," then
may or may not add additional attributes or informaton. This is
sloppy set theory to be sure.)
4.
Further, within any inadequate domain (collocation of events
and/or entities), independent transformations exist; all domains
are problematic, fuzzy.
4.1
An interesting program of procedural ontology may be given in two
forms:
1 = Pause RST */in which 1 is displayed/*
RST */in which nothing is displayed/*
Both are examples of REWRITE, a process which produces the visible
or invisible simulacrum of an entity which itself is in-process,
depending on the operating system, speed, energy feeding into the
machine, entropy wear-and-tear, and so forth. */RST is return but
always already to something slightly different./*
5.
Then there's this: The fine-structure of transformations is
interpreted in relation to catastrophe and framework theory,
anomaly ("over the edge") represented by an increase or decrease
of energy leading to a jump in the fold or cusp or other
catastrophes etc. Within the butterfly catastrophe, "elsewhere"
can be considered as the central sheet. Within the notion of "the
fragility of good things," stability is temporary at best: it
takes maintenance and energy to remain temporarily within a given
domain as an entity, independent or otherwise. And energy
corrodes, is corroded, is corrosive.
6.
An "object" is a resistance.
7.
Every "object" _has_ a collocation of thresholds.
Every "object" _is_ a collocation of thresholds.
Are these equivalent? Does possession apply? Does the copula?
8.
Every "object" is inadequate; every "description" is inadequate;
every set of descriptions is inadequate; the world is ragged,
noisy, catastrophic, even fractal within limits.
9.
Of course it is just as easy to say that catastrophe and frame
theories might both be deprecated, that we're more certain than
ever of the categoricity of the world, that anomalies are only the
result, for example, of overpopulation, ignorance of the physics
beyond ascertainable energy regimes and the ultimate fine-
structure of the world, that local entities may well be perfectly
defined, once the tools and taxonomies are developed, etc. So
there are matters of faith and faithlessness on all sides. (It may
come down to preferences, and I prefer open and problematic worlds
and worldings; I also prefer ontological collapses, for example as
far as deities are concerned.
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 10
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 10 http://www.alansondheim.org/awk.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/trumpet.jpg phenomenology reversal of collapsed inadequacy texts, exhausting my deconstructing, ungesturing, we all as inadequate, fundamentally everywhere, failure my incapacity, my headaches, my DIM, my myself, it doing migraines my arteries, collapsed my detooling, defabrication, exhaustion, everywhen, failure my the edges of the screen curled, and my mind's confused, gestures imply the inadequacy of the world, inadequacy submerges the world, the planck constants are absurd, nothing is entirely possible, incontrovertible, everyone comes crying to everyone, this is going nowhere, we are hardly anywhere, tending towards abject failure, and no destination, inadequacy becomes failure under projection, because there's nowhere to go, jennifer, she said, nikuko, because they amount to inconceivable bounds, inconceivable distances, whatever else there are always gestures, inadequacy suffuses, failure coagulates, inadequacy is the approximate field of drives, too many contractual obligations, releasing me from obligations, failure implies vectors, failure is the dream of success, vectors are nonexistent, is real the idiotic, nor obdurate neither is real the adequacy, of remnants the is failure everywhere, fails permeates, cloud, the accuracy, of idea my truth, of idea my sphere, little my myself, it doing is gesture, is itself, world the is world, the suffuses inadequate what's veins, useless my lungs, empty my nothing, my nothing, to allegiance my truth, useless my innocence, lost my vision, terrible my days, lost my nights, sleepless my horizon, of foggy my world, whole my adequacy, the real is neither obdurate nor idiotic, the real is and holes are where the bodies drop where the bodies stop are lost, diffuse, saturate, desiccate, exhaust away what's inadequate suffuses the world, is the world itself, is gesture, is incredible churning of the wheel greasy weaving through the spokes has something to do with the machine you're stretched on the wheel and the cams churn the body some unknown liquid seeping fundamentally inadequate, as all we your body is all greasy makes the machine fumble you my collapsed arteries, my migraines doing it myself, my DIM, floating in oil legs spread arms spread on the way to death and corruption constitution sewn economies and transriparians mumbly-pegged the lips and lips speed the thing up ungesturing, deconstructing, my exhausting texts, my failure everywhen, exhaustion, defabrication, detooling, groped and comes around again doing it myself, my little sphere, my idea of truth, my idea of accuracy, you've never seen the end of you liquids stitched from liquids and machines stitched from machines makes the machine do contrary things my headaches, my incapacity, my failure everywhere, my terrible vision, my lost innocence, my useless truth, my allegiance to nothing, my nothing, my empty lungs, my useless veins, my whole world, my foggy horizon, my sleepless nights, my lost days, the cloud, permeates, fails everywhere, failure is the remnants of makes sewn up things makes sewn up no things becoming a speed-blur speed-bump soaked constitutions of sewn economies full text @ http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.txt ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 9
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 9 http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.jpg full inadequate text at http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.txt ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 8
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 8 Adam's Rock http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010495.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010496.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010497.JPG the rock as obdurate. The interior of the rock. The micro- organisms on the rock. The inability to fully examine the microbiome without disturbance. The probability of interruptions in the past. The probability of interruptions in the future. The Fragile ecosystems of the Earth. The borderline between the Rock and the soil Matrix beneath it. The roots upwelling Under The Rock. the failure to comprehend. The failure to think deeply along the lines of the deep ecology of time. The lack of knowledge of origins of the Rock. the microorganisms within the Rock.this can continue indefinitely. It will all be swept away. even the simplest thing such as land parcels and aquifers in the area are almost impossible to determine exactly. Soon will come the digitalization of the rock. With digitalization comes the raster. You might as well say goodbye to the Planck length. I've always been a failure at Conjuring up or bringing to the surface the depth of knowledge or the depth of the phenomenology of the natural world. Or of any other world. There are always bars in the way of constructs. There are issues of Finance which Brioullin points out Brillouin in terms of particle physics. The more that research requires larger funding the more it's in the thralls of neoliberalism. The more it's in the thralls of neoliberalism the less we know about the world and the more we know about the surfaces not the depth of the movement of data. Data itself is worn like The Rock. But it is relatively simple compared to the exabytes of information that might be even within a single cubic centimeter of The Rock. I bring myself to these surfaces constantly attempting to ascertain their depths I extrapolate from the resulting images that I make into something far deeper and far more pernicious because the extrapolation always involves a suturing over the surface. The suturing has no way of being exact - we're coming to anything other than the peeling off of a shell or carapace of the rock. That is an image or a slide or a surface film. The film is something that almost relates to Medieval Notions of sight. The film is something that comes off the rock as if it were heading towards the eyes or the camera lens. I am bringing back a relic of a landscape. This is as if it were like this or as if it is still like this or as if it is like this at any particular point in time and space. It offers a point of view and art history has drowned such analysis with phenomenology and an understanding of the fragility and the absence of the image in the image. It says if all images were imaginary. doesn't it always go back to the rester. Even with Wittgenstein's Tractatus the raster is something that always seems to be in play when you're considering the Sheffer stroke or its dual - in other words the foundations of the real as it's represented in propositional logic one way or another. The raster is what gets in the way of the end of logic and the analogic itself - analogy analog - the analogic itself begins to dissolve at the level of the Planck length. Or the planck time. I'm deliberately letting this text dissolve in the futility of AI reading from speaking. Only in this way can shifts in the meaning or analysis come to some sort of fruition, the text representing itself what is already lost in an analysis that seems perfect and pristine in any classical formalism. There is no such thing. Rather there is such a thing but it is always a question of suturing over what that thing is - the world is a world of sutures and carapaces. this is the space of language. I think of the ackermann function a c k e r m a n n function and the way that such a function grows indefinitely on paper with nothing more than a manipulation of symbols that seem to extend indefinitely to Infinity in the form of a gesture. Writing mathematics is always a form of gesture. In this sense it is a representative of the earliest uses of language when language itself may have developed out of gesture according to Tran Duc Thao. paragraph are gestures always futile. By pointing Beyond they Point nowhere in terms of a full rester or full articulation of the real. They are always distancing always somewhere else in the presence(s) that they are announcing. It is this way that it is failure. What we need now is a phenomenology of failure not a phenomenology of closed articulated domains such as the red patch on the desk before me or geography or even the body itself. All of these things fall apart. This discourse falls apart. We might want to talk about the thinking of the world. that is a tendency towards signing a tendency towards naming. This is different than Kripke's notion of natural kinds in which there are determinants coming from the world itself that are the same in any possible world.
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 7
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 7 Inadequate Text through JSTOR Text Analyzer http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010402.JPG Congestive heart failure Domain ontologies Owl Ontology System failures ... Academic skill deficit Acute kidney failure Acute liver failure Emergency preparedness Equipment failures Ethics Failure to appear Gestures Induced abortion Information science Kidney failure Liver failure Market failure Metonology Miscommunication Monism Musical ontology Ontological arguments Operationg systems Philosophy Philosophy of religion Process philosophy Psychological assessment Recursion Renal insufficiency Seedling mortality Shy Drager syndrome Systems analysis Text analytics Traffic flow LOCATIONS: sinter Must Dogmatics Forego Ontology? Eugene W. Lyman The American Journal of Theology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul., 1914), pp. 355-377 Exploring What Can Go Wrong During a Chlorine Response Operation: Brian A. Jackson, Kay Sullivan Faith, Henry H. Willis 2010 Assessing the Probability, Effects, and Severity of Failure Modes: Brian A. Jackson, Kay Sullivan Faith, Henry H. Willis 2010 Driving to Safety Nidhi Kalra, Susan M. Paddock 2016 Relationships between Landsliding and Land Use in the Likhu Khola Drainage Basin, Middle Hills, Nepal John Gerrard, Rita Gardner Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Feb., 2002), pp. 48-55 The reality of information systems research John Lamp, Simon Milton 2005 Cross-Cutting Categorization Schemes in the Digital Humanities Colin Allen, the InPhO Group Isis, Vol. 104, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 573-583 Failure G. Tucker Bispham Poetry, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Feb., 1916), p. 238 Geist through Myth: Anna Kenny 2013 Living in One World: Searles Social Ontology and Semiotics Phila Mfundo Msimang Signs and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 2014), pp. 173-202 Living in One World: Searles Social Ontology and Semiotics Phila Mfundo Msimang Signs and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 2014), pp. 173-202 Inadequate text at http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.txt ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 61, 62
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 61, 62 http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.mp4 VIDEO 61 : the clar //written thru migraine scattershot// This is the closeness of your other keep returning to the body which eludes me, the world's full of new gates falling down, always emptying what passed for content in the permian just for a moment, as if there were a terminal, as if this were conceivable, what a voluminosity !Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT my entire life based on "a person's reach is beyond hir grasp" written and gendered well over two thirds of a century ago Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT This is the distance of your new Clar Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT the truth of god is the null set, always already closed.Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT the null set singularity is inadequate; there are always infinitesimals. it gets crowded down there, but it gets crowded everywhere. everywhere is effacement. Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT facement to effacement, ineffable to fable, adequate to inadequate, <> to in<> new and old exhaust me, we are all begging with gaps as if ( < > were the inadequate constitution of the world.Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT < > ( stop turning anywhere towards, the vector is dissolute; to remember the origin is to mythologize chaotic emptiness, corrosive virtuality. Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT to return is to recapitulate what has never arrived, recapitulation is decapitation; headless/tailless, no return, no journey, nothing, least of all no emptiness, nothing replete Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT what is said is dependent first and foremost on the collapsing zone of time, we're always already gone before we've said a word, before there were words, before this ascends into the distributions of failure from which it came descends -Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT before the permian and after, spread singularities, waves of sound, rubbled distributions, collapse, viral expansions, how many called then helplessly, buried in strata, a few from billions, look there, words escaped, breath no longer Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT derailing when there were no rails, deflecting when the vectors, what? chaotic and spread? not even roots, not even spreads Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT who's counting, what basis, what surreal or infinitesimal, what exhaustion, when THIS mind stops working, already gone from this text, they hardly remember Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT Mon Apr && &&:&&:&& EDT 62 : the elim of "A" Indequte of "A" philosophicl testThe in l testment dequ ment te, se. Tht there wI used to think the world is t there ws world, word ll th s world, word t c embodied. replete, fecund. ontology. informtion everywhere embodied. replete, fecund. ontology. inform tion everywhere mong world. tion everywhere mong world. mong world. nd disintegrtion of mind interfere with tion of mind interfere with tion of mind interfere with ny imminent ny imminent ny imminent It seems rupture ssessment. now, whrries little me rries little mening, f ning, fr too fluid, ssessment. now, wh r too fluid, t ontology c re strems prticles their decompositions. ms prticles their decompositions. immense for gener rticles their decompositions. lities. lities them. itself suspect. hrdening objects simulrdening objects simul rdening objects simulcrum. crum. crum. common orgnisms, projections negorg nisms, projections negtions occur. As if they occurred within or nisms, projections neg tions occur. As if they occurred within or tions occur. As if they occurred within or rs flsely y gener lsely s ted from within. tenuous s ppe ppering. no replst ring. no replcements replsis. these livings l cements replcements. bels dis cements. ppe dy disppelw red. which open lre bstrct-phenomenologicrly divided MAP, m ct-phenomenologicl teri l l- tifictions, interreltions, interrel tions, interreltionships. considered nothing more tionships. considered nothing more tionships. considered nothing more ontologies, str ry. Now lngungu nguge, ge, ge, existences ontologies. So much seemed unnecess nguging nor simulrticip crum just removes prticipl rticipnt step beyond its ngu nt step beyond its ging nor simul dequte were orgcy. Alw te were orgnic, orgys re nic, orgnism ch, in nism dequ te horizon. Nothing fundmentsing mentl, blooming buzzing n l, blooming buzzing dequ se-lods wrong question, solution. substrconfusing lies ds wrong question, solution. substrte. t he te. rt c ch. thought lngudeflection in ge. Philosophy resides rubble cy re wlks produces, ftegory. f tegory. flling evlks produces, f lling evnescent ilure. f nescent ilure c tions. shdow thoughtlessness body. There cdow thoughtlessness body. There c dow thoughtlessness body. There cse, philosophy se, philosophy se, philosophy deline ilure, redy. Open sets dimensions rdy. Open sets dimensions r dy. Open sets dimensions rgged edges, words written gged edges, words written gged edges, words written f ther,
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 5
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 5 http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010132.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/P1000633.JPG This section dictated. I'm constantly trying to articulate a philosophical structure That works for me and might conceivably work for other [ed. others] . At the same time I'm also dealing with a kind of deprecation and self-deprecation that seeps into these texts; I wouldn't be interested in philosophy at all were it not for the fact That I seem to need to articulate Any kind of ground posible [ed. bad choice of words here. [ed. "I'm trying to help. This doesn't help"] . naive. . To be able to stand on [ed. to be able to agree to, to be able to come to some sort of agreement, to be able to consider as a reasonable form of a _philosophical contribution_] at least for a while - Nothing works forever pure [ed. pure? I have no recollection]. So what is occuring here Is it gallon Hey kind of [ed. inadequate kind of, at least from what I remember] attempt to order [ed. disorder, reconstitute] the world as inadequate . at the same time I realize that what I'm doing undercuts that very ordering . As a result of that I go back to culling In a situation Where I say To give up on something Or to give up Yeah [ed. Yeah?] And then to take that and invert it as in the following textual selection . The very fact this section is dictated indicates already Dead [ed. wrong word here; I'm not sure what was meant, but this will do as an aside] artificial intelligence Is subverting what I'm trying to say. [ed. That] This is the limits of the body. [ed. That] This is the limits of speech. This is the totalization of an insertion that in the long run can only fail in terms of the somatic . So here and henceforth Is the text [ed. which fails as well; consider it as a life-form, a form of breathing]: I'm still here trying to help you! I hate to give up on you! When you You give up, you've bent poets; predicatable...) insight badly? the apparatus... And while I don't give up in this space, I give insurmountable, Oh I give up! give up no response, to open representation, humans never give up trying, violating voice Impossible of representation, humans never give up trying, violating voice give up knowledge and the guidance of the sage, Nikuko, got to hair... You clean yourself out nice and proper... You give up, you've bent make you want to give up your home, your friends, your country, give up. turn away.something has gone horribly wrong. perhaps this altogether - at least this THIS give up trying, violating voice give up. turn away.something -- Never give up... Never give in to false pessimism or optimism... Remain a but it was always slim... maybe if i just turn away and give up... but i I've got to get Alphaworld running but should probably give up... I'm going have less of I give up, I've bent over backwards for you... If you matter; matter can only give up the truth itself! Remember: In every Remain a Magnificent! genius bow to the labors of life; give up poets; predicatable...) insight badly? anyway? (forgive upper-casing) theory, the apparatus... And while I don't give up in this space, I give up Oh I give up! anyway? (forgive upper-casing) Coleridge - perhaps I should give give up no response, to open ons^eself... For it is true that ^ when the If I were Claara I'd give up too... +b O Claara banned from never give up trying, violating voice that way; it would give up will you give up your life for them... give up everything and the king decides whether he lives or the stage just to be with what if i give up, the fingers stop You do not have to give up knowledge and the guidance of the sage, Nikuko, wrong. perhaps this herr plaCLAWe Don't give up the great good sure that matter; matter can only give up the truth itself! that way; it would give up nothing, remain obdurate, make sure that incredible conflagration shall make us give up even one syllable of this give up the ways of the world, sexuality is a curse, women are a curse, Estate, and to what extent would I want to give up the paraphrase for the i'm not the person i'm capable wards... I give up, I've bent over what if i give up, the fingers stop for a day or so - you'll have less of herr plaCLAWe Don't give up the great good fight Dont gayeve up THOOe Magnificent! genius bow to the labors of life; give up his up the great good fight Dont gayeve up THOOe I give up, I've running but should probably give up... I'm going Oh I give up! at violating voice Coleridge - perhaps I should give up art you'll find it - don't give up - always looking - the give up on your friends, your country, One is unwilling to give up the or give up! incredible conflagration shall make us give up even please do not give up hope for donations, everything falls apart... Better some of us just give up and interstitial - you'll find it - don't give up - always looking - the up for the distance, give up to the
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 4
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 4 http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010134.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010108.JPG http://www.alansondheim.org/P1010094.JPG we create /pockets/ are created. every ending has a gap called and culled divine. we leave our baggage there. rules develop. the gap is fecund with rules. rules are based on exclusions: not this, not that. remember this. rules are ordered disorder. order demands a potential, potential well. the fragility of order is the catastrophe. consider emptiness, absences, paradoxes, contradictions, riddles, discourses on negation, on emptiness, on the middle way, on ways veering through contradictions, on other ways, on paradoxes, on word play and plays, on believing because absurd. consider instead, in place of, adjacent to, in the neighborhood or vicinity, the inadequate as inhering in the world, chaotically glued to the world. the inadequate not as category, but as a diffusion, murmuring, the exhaustion of the vector open at one end, extending from an origin-original, opened as well, chaos at the origin, copy and duplicate, not quite, chaos elsewhere, failure of measurement, bad and unremembered dreaming, not dreams. i woke this morning with a realization that there is none such; i woke with words in my mouth; i woke with cotton in my mouth; the less i knew, the truer it was. 1 is a prime; is (4^(4^1000))-1? why bother with the calculation when 1,2,3 are satisfactory? it's my failure i won't have anything to do with this. i don't have enough time left in my life. my knowledge is inadequate; i don't have the proper skills, i'd fail at this now and perhaps would have failed at this then. i'm simply not smart enough. i would probably fudge things. fudging is an entanglement of circum- locutions. what does it matter; we all live in failure. we know nothing of godhead because there's nothing to know, and with this knowledge, we circumvent ignorance, failure, admitting the chaos of worlding into us. the koan is the outcome, as is believing because it is absurd. suture the inadequate, imbibe the idea of the numinous or holy, and you've capped it momentarily; failure turns into paradox, the white horse that is not white, three in one and one in three, the multiplicity, the one. once you have a gap, you have corrosion, the tensor splitting at the level or sign of multiple vertices, high-speed categories and arrows entangled with themselves and others, falling apart from fictitious holes and wholes. think of this as the _shrug._ the shrug exits between dismissal and walking away, between the admission of failure and the attitude of devil-may-care, between the admission of failure and getting on with it, between dismissal and abject apologetics, between apologetics and the back-handed admission of the uselessness of the spiritual, between feeling good and feeling anyhow, between the inadequate and bricolage, which is making the best of it and of course, of course [so this is what i was sort of thinking of i think last night but to be honest it might have been the night before last, and on top of that worried about forgetting what i'm doing and going over the way things seem to drop away as i get older, i mean it's just not the same as it was yesterday is it or was it, and there seems no end to it this way and probably any other] === === === culling, which comes from my childhood and family dynamics, undercutting whatever i attempted, making me realize the uselessness and ephemerality of the world. within the family, i was the 'wastrel and nincompoop' as my father proclaimed - never mind the anecdote. so i'd attempt something, withdraw from it at the same time, mentally attack myself for the project in the first place. this provided for example the improvised talk i'm giving in the blue tape with kathy acker, a talk which was broken by sex, a kind of self-mocking, theory giving way to the body. but now it's a form of automated culling, which breaks my thought up, rendering the inadequacy of my thought - and perhaps all thought - visible for anyone to read - breaking down work previously carefully crafted - the uselessness of the philosophical, the failure inherent in the very nature of thinking, a nature broken, ruptured, itself inadequate - culling, transforming + / - "intern inadequate. Monday Trocadero downstairs, showcase records. he was an intern who was completely inadequate. Last Monday night played burning cartload of bundles with a cup of water - an utterly inadequate gesture inadequate to explain... inadequate gratification. It was only post-coitum that the eye, as a life, where she was inadequate, felt inhibited and depressed. he was inadequate, felt inhibited and depressed.' that his work is inadequate and futile. His need to test his own limits, supplementation to our human needs remains always inadequate, Is sampling always inadequate? Don't we make these decisions in the first impedance western electric earphone, but
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 3
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 3 http://www.alansondheim.org/testament7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament6.jpg Great blue heron rookery, Seekonk, Massachusetts noise in the machinery of thought. all thought is parasitic language or empathetic movement within the mind. in this sense reality is a residue or test case. the test case always fails with(in) the ontological gap. the mind always fails even with the pronouncement of the body. is it that the symbols mean and the mind comprehends, or the symbols by virtue of tradition are granted substance? it is too much to say that mathesis begins and ends with the making and interpretation of marks. we exist by agreement that we exist. there is always otherwise to any agreement. otherwise is infinitely greater than agreement. clearly thought and existence, in whatever form of presentation, are inadequate. wherever we look, whatever we examine, there is a dropping-away that is not even fundamental. nothing is never, ever, fundamental. (what slides, slides out, is only the symbolic; i cannot procure anything except a sense of my own failure. that sense, too, fails.) the we itself of course is a construct, one that falls away as well, as does the I. we're left bereft were it not for the ontology of the digital. or the ontology of any testament. or another ontology. ontology is a story we are told or tell ourselves. or say the ontology of the analog or analogic. or ontology as a told story or the telling of a story. our sounds in such cases appear to form the basis of community, or communality. it is this inadequacy that tends towards those fictions and absolutisms which are the basis of any religion. religions stress our inadequacy, creating an open vector which tends towards, lands on, the postulation of an other; even atheism has a name. (we think through the closure of vectors. we kill for them.) if not now, then. if not this universe, then another. if not this reality, than another (no there there, no here here). if not this time, then after death (after we discard our body) (after our body is discarded). if not this, then that: we are held by this proposition, this vector. (this vector which does not exist.) (jeremy bentham who created adequacy out of fictions, ontologically empty, inadequate. one might say, as if there were duties created, as if duty were a suture.) anything but dissolution which is always already an accomplice. explanations, enclaving, neoliberalism, are untouchable. the inadequate is sutured by an inadequate adequate. think of sedimentary layers. think of ooze, microbiomes, fundamental particles observed and generated by increasingly expensive colliders. or the planck length, planck time, planck mass. what is inadequate is reachlessness. (and the inadequate reachlessness is not ever a category.) as this writing slips from me, the wryting of the body forgets itself, mistakes are made. and mistakes are always made. (there are no mistakes. there are deviations. there are openings which bend, tensor-like to fulfill the destination of language.) what absurdity, bringing the thought of limitations and the limitations of thought something which does not exist, as if there were a mix. (we are not in our body or the bodies of others, as if there were a plateau or wish-fulfilling stone hardening some skin onto some bones, sensory organs, mind.) as if there were an only-if. (scrape / scrap / crap / cape / rap / sap / cap / as if the caps on our noggins were the world (were the ontology of the world)) (everything talks, everything is doing, the comma, (of course, excuse me, this is my own failure, my own depress, exhaustion, inability to write the simplest truth of the world, or one's or another's truth. i ask for your pardon in this regard. my failure is my own, not the open vector of a disease that infects all of us. everyone is saying this, the semicolon (not a list or invitation) --> The whole text is at http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.txt <-- ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2
Thank you so much; this means a lot to me. It's rhetoric but it's also about rhetoric and the ineffable. - On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: Alan, I love this, and also part 1, and the accompanying photographs. I don't understand it very well, but I love it as rhetoric/poetry/memoir. Edward On 24/04/2019 19:25, Alan Sondheim wrote: The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2 http://www.alansondheim.org/testament3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament4.jpg ii In 1962, Ed Hirsch, if I remember correctly, introduced me to a book he found at Hebrew University's bookstore - Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP). He told me that it reminded him of what I was talking about at the time. I had no philosophical training, read it avidly, and it's stayed with me ever since. I've had one technical article published on it, in a Quebecois philosophy journal whose name I forget. I was most fascinated by the use of the Sheffer stroke and the open-ended "logical" descriptive phenomenology it embodied. I probably misunderstood everything at the time, and even now. But the concept of logical particles, which could be inserted into active networks, has proved useful - as if these particles had an abstract existence of their own. Negation seemed critical to these; it was both a state of affairs and a potential operator. Of course there are any number of logics and set theories for that matter, and there are issues of totalization involved which in a way leaves them in the state of the open vector or devolution into chaotic states above. Nothing remains in reach in the symbolic, I think; everything's messy. So early on I considered 'immersive' and 'definable' hierarchies, the former contaminated by time, temporality, and the latter assumed to represent states of affairs that weren't process-oriented. I believe I read something to that effect in Whitehead. All these antiquities! A simple example - 2+2 = 4 can be a process - the process of addition, sorting, etc., involving a phenomenology - or it can be an abstract statement of quantity in which both sides are equivalent. In the process, 2+2 do not equal 4, but are counted or ascertained to be fore; the sides of the equation represent different states of affairs. In the quantity, each side can be substituted for the other; they're identical. Of course all of this gets messy. But if you begin with what I imagined as a throwing of dice of Sheffer strokes or their dual, you have interesting modes of description emphasizing that blooming buzzing confusion of the real described in part i. I've always seen the world as rubble, part of growing up in a town whose economy was based on anthracite; slag piles and mines were everywhere; there were strikes and terrible accidents; John L. Lewis was a household name. The Pennsylvanian (upper Carboniferous) forests were also everywhere; I remember seeing a 17 meter high fossil of a tree-fern on the side of a cliff, which had fractured and revealed. As a Jew, I was also aware of the tenuousness of life and presence, a tenuousness which was manifest in these great forests that had disappeared eons ago. I could never adapt to their disappearance; at times the fossils not only carried the imprints of plants (and occasionally other organisms), but also, rarely, some compressed plant material itself. I was a neurotic, ungainly, somewhat miserable youth, and for a long time the fossils helped sustain me. So there was this realm of annihilation that I bore with me, as well as my reading, when I was far too young, into the Nuremberg medical trials, which were published in full by the government printing office - another form of annihilation and deep disturbance, coupled with the Cold War fission and fusion bomb tests that brought terror into my heart; I had a photograph of the first hydrogen test next to my bed, as if it were reassuring that horror could be contained in an image. And all of this fed into neuroses I've never overcome, and a strong sense that the destiny of the world is rubble, sinter, that even fossils crumble. I've embraced failure, I've written on it, and it infects my work. Writers like Blanchot and Winograd have been critical to me in this regard, along with Elaine Scarry, Jean Amery, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, all a long time ago and a long time coming, and now for example, James Bridle, Jean Stauffer, Hubert Acquin. I live in descent, in collapse (as in mining), and I've lived long enough to know that no project results in completion, capstone, encapsulation, even anything more than temporary betterment. For me the notion of inadequacy is paramount; there is no closure and formalizations of closure are problematic, temporary, as well. We are brutal primates bringing the fecundity of the planet down with us; we're always already fossils, always already neoliberalists - we're permeated
Re: [NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2
Alan, I love this, and also part 1, and the accompanying photographs. I don't understand it very well, but I love it as rhetoric/poetry/memoir. Edward On 24/04/2019 19:25, Alan Sondheim wrote: The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2 http://www.alansondheim.org/testament3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament4.jpg ii In 1962, Ed Hirsch, if I remember correctly, introduced me to a book he found at Hebrew University's bookstore - Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP). He told me that it reminded him of what I was talking about at the time. I had no philosophical training, read it avidly, and it's stayed with me ever since. I've had one technical article published on it, in a Quebecois philosophy journal whose name I forget. I was most fascinated by the use of the Sheffer stroke and the open-ended "logical" descriptive phenomenology it embodied. I probably misunderstood everything at the time, and even now. But the concept of logical particles, which could be inserted into active networks, has proved useful - as if these particles had an abstract existence of their own. Negation seemed critical to these; it was both a state of affairs and a potential operator. Of course there are any number of logics and set theories for that matter, and there are issues of totalization involved which in a way leaves them in the state of the open vector or devolution into chaotic states above. Nothing remains in reach in the symbolic, I think; everything's messy. So early on I considered 'immersive' and 'definable' hierarchies, the former contaminated by time, temporality, and the latter assumed to represent states of affairs that weren't process-oriented. I believe I read something to that effect in Whitehead. All these antiquities! A simple example - 2+2 = 4 can be a process - the process of addition, sorting, etc., involving a phenomenology - or it can be an abstract statement of quantity in which both sides are equivalent. In the process, 2+2 do not equal 4, but are counted or ascertained to be fore; the sides of the equation represent different states of affairs. In the quantity, each side can be substituted for the other; they're identical. Of course all of this gets messy. But if you begin with what I imagined as a throwing of dice of Sheffer strokes or their dual, you have interesting modes of description emphasizing that blooming buzzing confusion of the real described in part i. I've always seen the world as rubble, part of growing up in a town whose economy was based on anthracite; slag piles and mines were everywhere; there were strikes and terrible accidents; John L. Lewis was a household name. The Pennsylvanian (upper Carboniferous) forests were also everywhere; I remember seeing a 17 meter high fossil of a tree-fern on the side of a cliff, which had fractured and revealed. As a Jew, I was also aware of the tenuousness of life and presence, a tenuousness which was manifest in these great forests that had disappeared eons ago. I could never adapt to their disappearance; at times the fossils not only carried the imprints of plants (and occasionally other organisms), but also, rarely, some compressed plant material itself. I was a neurotic, ungainly, somewhat miserable youth, and for a long time the fossils helped sustain me. So there was this realm of annihilation that I bore with me, as well as my reading, when I was far too young, into the Nuremberg medical trials, which were published in full by the government printing office - another form of annihilation and deep disturbance, coupled with the Cold War fission and fusion bomb tests that brought terror into my heart; I had a photograph of the first hydrogen test next to my bed, as if it were reassuring that horror could be contained in an image. And all of this fed into neuroses I've never overcome, and a strong sense that the destiny of the world is rubble, sinter, that even fossils crumble. I've embraced failure, I've written on it, and it infects my work. Writers like Blanchot and Winograd have been critical to me in this regard, along with Elaine Scarry, Jean Amery, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, all a long time ago and a long time coming, and now for example, James Bridle, Jean Stauffer, Hubert Acquin. I live in descent, in collapse (as in mining), and I've lived long enough to know that no project results in completion, capstone, encapsulation, even anything more than temporary betterment. For me the notion of inadequacy is paramount; there is no closure and formalizations of closure are problematic, temporary, as well. We are brutal primates bringing the fecundity of the planet down with us; we're always already fossils, always already neoliberalists - we're permeated with the Permian in a sense. I try to crawl out of the muck, bringing the muck along with me. I emphasize the body, coal strata, shale, peat, anything that places what appears to be a relatively autonomous digital realm into the context of what sort
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2
The inadequate, a philosophical testament, part 2 http://www.alansondheim.org/testament3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament4.jpg ii In 1962, Ed Hirsch, if I remember correctly, introduced me to a book he found at Hebrew University's bookstore - Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP). He told me that it reminded him of what I was talking about at the time. I had no philosophical training, read it avidly, and it's stayed with me ever since. I've had one technical article published on it, in a Quebecois philosophy journal whose name I forget. I was most fascinated by the use of the Sheffer stroke and the open-ended "logical" descriptive phenomenology it embodied. I probably misunderstood everything at the time, and even now. But the concept of logical particles, which could be inserted into active networks, has proved useful - as if these particles had an abstract existence of their own. Negation seemed critical to these; it was both a state of affairs and a potential operator. Of course there are any number of logics and set theories for that matter, and there are issues of totalization involved which in a way leaves them in the state of the open vector or devolution into chaotic states above. Nothing remains in reach in the symbolic, I think; everything's messy. So early on I considered 'immersive' and 'definable' hierarchies, the former contaminated by time, temporality, and the latter assumed to represent states of affairs that weren't process-oriented. I believe I read something to that effect in Whitehead. All these antiquities! A simple example - 2+2 = 4 can be a process - the process of addition, sorting, etc., involving a phenomenology - or it can be an abstract statement of quantity in which both sides are equivalent. In the process, 2+2 do not equal 4, but are counted or ascertained to be fore; the sides of the equation represent different states of affairs. In the quantity, each side can be substituted for the other; they're identical. Of course all of this gets messy. But if you begin with what I imagined as a throwing of dice of Sheffer strokes or their dual, you have interesting modes of description emphasizing that blooming buzzing confusion of the real described in part i. I've always seen the world as rubble, part of growing up in a town whose economy was based on anthracite; slag piles and mines were everywhere; there were strikes and terrible accidents; John L. Lewis was a household name. The Pennsylvanian (upper Carboniferous) forests were also everywhere; I remember seeing a 17 meter high fossil of a tree-fern on the side of a cliff, which had fractured and revealed. As a Jew, I was also aware of the tenuousness of life and presence, a tenuousness which was manifest in these great forests that had disappeared eons ago. I could never adapt to their disappearance; at times the fossils not only carried the imprints of plants (and occasionally other organisms), but also, rarely, some compressed plant material itself. I was a neurotic, ungainly, somewhat miserable youth, and for a long time the fossils helped sustain me. So there was this realm of annihilation that I bore with me, as well as my reading, when I was far too young, into the Nuremberg medical trials, which were published in full by the government printing office - another form of annihilation and deep disturbance, coupled with the Cold War fission and fusion bomb tests that brought terror into my heart; I had a photograph of the first hydrogen test next to my bed, as if it were reassuring that horror could be contained in an image. And all of this fed into neuroses I've never overcome, and a strong sense that the destiny of the world is rubble, sinter, that even fossils crumble. I've embraced failure, I've written on it, and it infects my work. Writers like Blanchot and Winograd have been critical to me in this regard, along with Elaine Scarry, Jean Amery, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, all a long time ago and a long time coming, and now for example, James Bridle, Jean Stauffer, Hubert Acquin. I live in descent, in collapse (as in mining), and I've lived long enough to know that no project results in completion, capstone, encapsulation, even anything more than temporary betterment. For me the notion of inadequacy is paramount; there is no closure and formalizations of closure are problematic, temporary, as well. We are brutal primates bringing the fecundity of the planet down with us; we're always already fossils, always already neoliberalists - we're permeated with the Permian in a sense. I try to crawl out of the muck, bringing the muck along with me. I emphasize the body, coal strata, shale, peat, anything that places what appears to be a relatively autonomous digital realm into the context of what sort of microbiomic organisms we are and what we are thinking we're doing with prostheses. So the body, always and already invisible, the momentary loci of processes, awash in a see of microplastics and
[NetBehaviour] The inadequate, a philosophical testament
The inadequate, a philosophical testament http://www.alansondheim.org/testament0.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/testament00.jpg I used to think the world is all that is the case. That there was a world, that the word was embodied. The word was replete, fecund. That there was ontology. That information was everywhere among the world. That there was a case. It seems that rupture and disintegration of world and mind interfere with any imminent assessment. That now, what is ontology carries little meaning, that the world is far too fluid, too immense for any generalities. That there are streams of particles and their decompositions. That there are commonalities among them. That ontology itself is suspect. That the hardening of objects is a simulacrum. That for organisms, projections and negations occur. As if they occurred within or without them. That slipping away is generated from within. That the tenuous appears falsely as stasis. That these livings and their labels are disappearing. That there are no replacements for replacements. That there are no places or moments of origins. That song has always already disappeared. That song which is the open circumlocution of consonants. That my I is useless and has always been useless. That the complexity of the world is the complexity of complexity. That there is no you who must follow there is no me into the lack of wilderness and wildness. Sometime early I divided the world into MAP, material- abstract-phenomenological ontologies, stratifications, and interrelationships. Sometime I considered nothing more than particles as processes and their epistemologies. It's all in there, structures and their forgotten existences and ontologies. So much seemed unnecessary. Now the language, languaging itself seems inadequate, nor is the world a simulacrum which just removes the participant a step beyond its current inadequacy. Always a reach, as if the inadequate were itself organic, organism releasing the beyond as an adequate horizon. Nothing is fundamental, the blooming buzzing confusing lies at the heart of the case-loads of ontologies. It's everywhere the wrong question, wrong solution. It's everywhere the wrong language, wrong substrate. It's everywhere deflection and the inadequacy of reach. It's everywhere the inadequacy of thought and language. Philosophy resides in the rubble of the world, walks in the rubble of the world, produces, in the rubble of the world. The inadequacy of reach. The failure. The failure as a category. The failure as the falling away of evanescent delineations. The failure as the shadow and thoughtlessness of the body. There is no world that is the case, no case. That that is inadequacy. That philosophy is always already failure, that philosophy is always ready. Open sets and the dimensions of thought always ragged at the edges, these words written as lettered particles, already releasing the inhering failure of the word. Or rather, nothing touching anything because nothing reaches, among the ragged, the rubble, the baroque interconnections and failures among the material, the abstract, the phenomenological, all of which, even now this one thinks, these schemes are processes, fractal at best, chaotic at better, murmur, and then stillness, inadequate, out of reaching, inadequacy, failure, reaching, open sets, and open. a gesture is always open. a gesture is always thrown. an aphorism succeeds to the extent it fails. the gesture succeeds to the extent it fails to beckon. the aphorism and gesture fail in the sense of proper names. New categories of the thwarted, the forgotten, the absent. New categories of the failed, the unreachable, the untoward. Rewritten categories of the spilled chora. The chora of steam, the diffused chora. The unfulfillment of thirst and hunger. The world is all that is the category of the unnameable. Nothing is beyond the categories of the ungraspable. Nothing beckons the categories. That their ontology is diffuse, uncategorical. That their ontology is beyond their grasp. The failure of inadequacy, the inadequacy of failure. The diffuse failure of ontology and ontologies. The collapse of the copula and inadequate identifications. We were used to there used to be a world. the gesture which points across and towards plateaus and denuded forests, meadows, oceans, and deserts. The brutality of broken philosophies. The brutality of the copula. ontology: the k-not of the inadequate. epistemology: the inadequacy of the k-not. the k-not of: the possession. the grasp. the maw. for if it's definable, it's definable qua immersive. and if it's immersive, it's inadequate. what is left behind is fossils in transit. what has occurred is the trace of a trace, a fossil. the tendency of the fractured fossil, its annihilation. its annihilation as a trace of a trace of absence. information has always been lost; what is preserved is the inadequate. the gap is sutured by rubble; rubble decoheres by virtue of the gap. there is always the
