it is interesting given the buddhist maxim with reverence even a hound's tooth may glow
and also the western tradition of oneiricriticism involving the loss of teeth.. it seems that for every tradition of the supernatural there is a comcommitant idealization of 'base' matter in some form or other shall we consider the entire earth as a reliquary or as a phanospheric incubator of 'desiring images' the magic of the object is its participation in our consciousness shall we say then that objects, representations are not alive when they in fact participate in life in the meander of history every bit as much or more than do the living which create and perpetuate them.. it's not so much a question of an idolatry of the object but of a deterritorialization of the cateogries (sic) of being There was an anthropologist, Something White, I believe who placed Culture into the category of living things, that culture has an independent existence not determined by those whose bodies propagated it.. things like the Kandy tooth, like certain idea forms which go back to Rome and beyond attest to.. The idea of Memes addresses this directly attributing to them a kind of viral existence which is in fact supported by the strange lives of viruses themselves which are in fact not whole as organisms but are completed by the organism to form a third emergence.. The next book I'll be looking at is: "What Do Pictures Want? : The Lives and Loves of Images" W. J. T. Mitchell This isn't the first book to look at the independent nature of the image but it is one of the first to posit a kind of map of the life and reproductive cycles of imagery.. I would think that 'non-retinal' images or memes/ideas would follow roughly the same viral process.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Dalachinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: Re: self-pity leads to run on sentences
they claim to have buddha's tooth gotama's tooth in hiroshima too i visited that tooth totally forgot maybe i'll pome it one day given to them as a peace gesture after a bomb
