"we should be more wiling to admit we search for meaning in a thing, a
moment or a movie because the sense that this search matters and feels
urgent comes before the cool procedural search for what this meaning is.
Rather than what Jameson would refer to as a certain schizophrenia I think
the contemporary use of hand-held cameras and unmotivated edits marks this
sense of mattering coming before meaning"
that sounds to me very much like a description of techniques for identity and
for style. 'we can all participate in the meaning but the search is mine'. 'these
creative choices allow me to maintain your perception of me and how i do
what i do'. "the mattering of the search" reminds me of my exchange with TL
and the question of her process over product with or without telos. this pre-
procedural urgency reads again as kairos. do we make the search matter or
does it reveal itself to us, do we sense a need or an opportunity?
"the point I'm still trying to grasp is whether modeling is simply a flip over into
rationalism or whether it involves a more synthesizing relationship between
stuff and ideas."
well good luck with that prehensile abyss, greg. my straws are equally as
evasive - is modelling the pinnacle of human hubris and a symptom of our
exaggerated self-importance or the current manifestation of a humble desire
to describe and redescribe our context and/or existence to ourselves?
brooke
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