A response on mailings before Monday 8 February 1999
The concensual conflation of process into product.
Can you make a gift of a process? There's a thought.
(Note: only two options on sending a package through US customs: tick
one only: a. gift; b. merchandice.)
Giving may be a process, a Levinasian act of ethical responsibility to
the other, as Miles Champion hints. At the back of Levinas' view of
language (and literary language, about which he remainded, in certian
moods, distinctly suspcious) is his notion of keeping the saying open, to
attempt to avoid the ontological fixity of the said. Perhaps the dwesire to
hold off product in process might be seen also in this interesting binary
(which I have some halfnotes towards an article on). But, as Levinas
says, (or is saying?): the saying is embodied in the said, so there is a
tragic interdependence. Perhaps we should see the process-product
opposition in the same way?
I like the horrible possibility of CR's process-showing becoming the latest
London fad, and Alaric's alarm at such.
But autonomy.................................
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