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[Alan Sondheim]

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To clear the house: the necessity of God/Spirit/Meaning; abstracted
capitalized universals. These are misrecognitions, misapplications; from
the specific to the general; from the imminent to the immanent; from many
to one; from one to One. Occamic pragmatism; eliminate them. They are of
service (they do not "serve") intrinsically; they comfort; they provide a
matrix (as-if from matrix to Matrix); the appearance of transcendence; the
therapeutic of warding-off death. They contradict flattening as tropes of
disturbance. They appear from elsewhere, elsewhen; they appear elsewise;
an introjected Other. Beware of capitals; of Capital. The projection of
capitals returns as meaning; returns the loop; implies foundation (as-if
from foundation to Foundation). They recuperate, exculpate, death (as-if
from death to Death). They are the marrow of human culture. Farm them out;
construct theologies, emblems; consider them (capital) Emblematic. Thus
the symbolic emerges (from pre-linguistic, from proto-linguistic, from
"chora") as-if from the Emblematic; as-if the Emblematic situates the
symbolic vis-a-vis the human. From "situates" to "Situates," situation to
"Situation"; Situation is generated by the Emblematic. To follow-through
is to follow through with difficulty; with the problematic of
verification. Adopt what works; otherwise adapt. "What works" = "what
works for you."
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>From meanings to meaning to Meaning; from beings to being (copula
included) to Being; from spirits to spirit to Spirit. But the last already
implies an ontological split, disturbance, fueled by the foreknowledge of
death; by problematic causal explanations of lifeworld events; by the
recuperation, exculpation, of random tragedies. From humans to spirits is
the production of meaning extended to the imminent. From imminent to
immanent is father than the eye can see.
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Flattening is being in the world; it is, references (what is, here,
references) the style of the world.  Depth absorbs disturbance, literally
circumlocutes, circumscribes. The totality of circumscriptions of
disturbances constitute a cultural textuality. The calling-forth of the
Emblematic follows suit, exists within linguistic-psychoanalytic
registers. The Emblematic is constituted by the virtual; from the virtual
(as-if) to the Virtual. The virtual is always already within the world;
technology, from tacit knowledge through electronic avatar, augments it.
Augmentation filters (appears to filter) flattening; appears to distort;
appears to generate depth (ontological fecundity), multiply-connected
manifolds (epistemological fecundity). The virtual is inner speech,
historicity and fecundity of interiority; philosophy is always already
virtual; the discourse of the virtual is philosophical.
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Every symbol is a ligament of avatar; every referent is a gesture; every
gesture procures the body; every body is a speaking body; every body is a
spoken body; every body is spoken-for.
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Organism inhabits the symbolic; the symbolic is not a matter of
consciousness; a manner of consciousness; the symbolic is a manner of
worlding; of inhabitation. The provenance of the symbolic is not solely
human; the provenance of stewardship lies within the symbolic of the
human. "By default we are stewards of the earth": precisely because of the
extension of human power; of the vectorization of human culture.
Vectorization: the physical extension of culture, the sprawl.

[21 forthcoming]