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. But there's no such thing when we are in the midst of it. When we were in the midst of a game and infractions of the rules always lead to red cars to red cards to being cast aside cast out of the game. the game where into something we are always cast out of always already cast out of. This relates to Schutz's notion of Carneades with either the Rope or the snake in the cave and we can't determine which. What is true in the situation like that what is true is that we are cast out of the cave while we're simultaneously examining it while we're in the situation protein language. not protein but protein language. That is protean language. it's always a Conjuring and it's always a Conjuring that fails as magic and miracles fail as even the obdurate Earth, the idiotic real fails us. But it's not a question of failing us, it's a question of failure or failing in the first and last place. It has little relationship to us. And among other things there is no it. So in this situation we're dealing like once again with Adams Rock Adam apostrophe s rock. This is a rock in his yard in the woods in Ashfield Massachusetts. And it takes us only back to the surface of the image which we relate to the surface of the rock. We're doing all of this. We're doing the relating. We're doing the image-making. We're doing the walking around and talking. We're doing the writing. We're doing the reading. We're doing this here. We're doing this. And in the sense we're doing nothing at all or there's always a gap between what we're doing and what we think we're doing - a gap between here and there a gap between any two words I've between fulfillment and exhaustion - I Gap coming up promulgated from within between failure and the notion of failure. And with that with that I'll leave it at that And with that I'll leave it at that. Leaving and coming towards it, leaving and arriving here are the same thing. There's no difference at all and there's every difference in the world and the lack of it. Full Inadequate text at http://www.alansondheim.org/inadequate.txt _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
