On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, phanero wrote:
shall we consider the entire earth as a reliquary or as a phanospheric incubator of 'desiring images'
no
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..
yes they are not alive
it's not so much a question of an idolatry of the object but of a deterritorialization of the cateogries (sic) of being
no, at least for me it's idolatry and the subject of wars, violence, slaughter.
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..
no, viruses are in fact whole; they require organisms to replicate but then we require other foods. it's not a third emergence, I think, any more than eating and gaining weight is an emergence. I'm just wary of theory ... Alan
