On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:13, Ruark Lewis wrote:

> for starters you'll need to get the names right
> but naming is what send the colonialists' concept of the void - the nothing,
> into a tailspin, that space - becomes place, full of descriptions of events
> both ancient and in living memory.

Thanks for the tip... I was making compost, hot and steamy with white
fungi on black rotting leaf litter. Names, that what I had forgotten,
names in this Colonial country of ours, so beloved, Bali commemorations
on the television reading out names. I don't watch television, anymore.
Nominal aphasia matter and memory, half way through the first chapter
getting bored. Been here before, have we, Professor Bergson?

The paradox of indefinite regress is the one from which all the other
paradoxes are derived. Now, regress has, necessarily, a serial form:
each denoting name has a sense which must be denoted by another name:
n1-->n2-->n3-->n4--> ... If we consider only the succession of names,
the series brings about a synthesis of the homogeneous, whereby each
name is distinguished from the one preceding it only by rank, degree, or
type. ... But if, instead of considering the simple succession of names,
we consider that which alternates in this succession, we see that each
name is taken first in the denotation which it brings about, and then
the sense which it expresses, because it is this sense which serves as
the denotation of the other name. ... This time we are confronted with a
synthesis of the heterogeneous; the serial form is necessarily realized
in the simultaneity of at least two series. Every unique series, whose
homogeneous terms are distinguished only according to type or degree,
necessarily subsumes under it two heterogeneous series, each one of
which is constituted by terms of the same type or degree, although these
terms differ in nature from those of the other series (they can differ
also in degree.) The serial from is thus essentially multi-serial.

... The law governing two simultaneous series is they are never equal.

"the thing went through the ceiling as quietly as possible, as if it
were quite used to it." Some logic of sense (pp 36-41.) Been here
before, have we, Professor Deleuze?

To cut a long story short, the synthesis of heterogeneous manifold under
the synthesis of homogeneous common sense refers to the Kantian
synthesis of the understanding. Sixteen year old boys, under the
tutelage of Professor Kant, experiencing selves by the self grow beards
and obtain a world creating view with good sense teleology. Only those
who can grow beards are allowed in this story. Is it possible nature
made a sex without a brain, Professor Kant? The professor nods his head
in silent agreement. You bourgeois colonialist twerp squirming with a
politics of compromise. The Romantic Australian landscape... names,
names, names... and fabricating between memories of the colonised and
the colonisers.

Sorry, have no idea what the thread was about, really. I was making
compost; compost heaps the absolute horizon of life. Make what you will
of that colonialist phenomenology telling cyberspace stories like old
Husserl with a mobile point in the transcendental field determined as
the Ego: a world of men and a world of fairies.

best wishes

Chris Jones.