Billowing and sovereignty (From a letter) " - sometime would like to talk to you about this notion, the 'smoothed' lifeworld and the 'peering' around corners that I think constitutes memory and suturing - almost a form of billowing - I think this could be a useful concept for me. softness embraces both mental phenomena, mind, and the receiving, receptacle, organizing of things, identifying of things, surrounding of things, in the personal world and its extension, i.e. the 'peering' of the personal world. it's difficult to come to grips with the 'depth' of the real, that lip when classification is just beginning or just forgotten - when the real seems of a comfort, presencing ... " in billowing, the particulate disappears. stratigraphy loses the anecdote among the sublime. neither singular nor plural. nor something revealed - it would be easy, yes, to think through the sublime as a matter of revela- tion, next stop on the mystical train. but there's no vector, no plateau, no buddhas seated or otherwise, no intentional or contradictory language. the particular is the particular is asthmatic, urban dis-ease, the body at war, not with itself, but with differentiation. towards death distinctions disappear. there is no other side. "MR. KING [said] [...] The States were not 'Sovereigns' in the sense contended for by some. They did not possess the peculiar features of sovereignty, they could not make war, nor peace, nor alliances nor treaties. Considering them as political Beings, they were dumb, for they could not speak to any foreign Sovereign whatever. They were deaf, for they could not hear any propositions from such Sovereign. They had not even the organs or faculties of defence or offence, for they could not of themselves raise crops, or equip vessels, for war." [...] "MR. MARTIN, said he considered that the separation from G.B. placed the 13 States in a state of Nature towards each other; that they would have remained in that state till this time, but for the confederation" [...] (from Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison) in a state of nature States jostle, states and operators jostle, processes jostle. nothing speaks unless spoken-to, when something speaking is speak- ing as spoken-for. from such collusion, collocations, rights arise through the etic; the emic, interiority, withdraws so that the membrane cloaks everything except digital transmissions - goods, speech, currencies, move- ment of men, materiel. in a state of nature, States billow forth, swell, breathe, engender, Mona Lisa smile. are songs sung? look, I'm putting forward a myth, not of origins nor of destinations, a myth of wayfarers, neither mapped nor mapping nor nomadic. look, I'm writing to you, here, see, in the absolute silence of protocols, which, along of all the things, processes, states, and operators, are soundless in the world. look, she said, did we ever have a government. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
