Keston,
Thanks for your exploratory query. G Rose talks about "attention"
in terms of looking out of a railway carriage at a landscape (in
Mourning becomes the Law) and of course she sees the absolutist
critical idea of a "fascism of representation" as itself fascistic at
the critical level. Moments of disattention certainly - it can't be
monolythic, and it's not just one space or one time, but the point of
attention is not just to maximise opportunities for critical purchase
either on the process of perception, but to offer that striated and
clustered process TO the other in a habit of respect that does not
convert respect into a reflex of self-subversion. The burden of
relation without ground, the materia from which the "good enough" (as
the interminably incomplete basis of law) is drawn.
I like the terms in which you question "generic" language better
than an answer (where it's an exploration beyond the
questionable per se) but YB simply seems to refer to elemental words
that operate sufficiently without nuance or qualification though this
is no pure linguistic quality as such. Their very banality on the
rhetorical level opens up an horizon of extrospection. They would be
spatially sequential rather than temporal only, but still not open to
supplement by qualification, only by revisiting.
As much as I can manage on a Friday!
Best W
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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