Phenomenology of the "same" http://www.alansondheim.org/bristol29.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sem.mp4 the Same is the _deepest primordial state of being,_ leveling, evenness, lack of distinction, (dia)critial marks, chora, soundless vac, the displaced elliptical locus of Freud's death drive without a driver; same, similar, sample, some, somewhat, something; (below, heavily edited, w/out diacritical marks): sem-1 One; also adverbillay "as one," together with. 1. Full-grade form *sem-. II. 0-grade form *som-. 1. ... SAMHITA< SAMSARA< SANDHI, SANGHA, SANSKRIT, from Sanskrit sam, together. 2. Suffixed form *som0-. a. SAME, from Old Norse samr, same, from Germanic *sama-, same; . - The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Third Edition, revised and edited by Calvert Watkins, 2011. sem II, one, together together, somn somn, together sont, being - The Indo-European Protolanguage: A Computational Reconstruction, Gyula Decsy, Eurolingua, 1991 Sama - calmness, tranquility; control of the internal sense organs; same, equal (from sam = "to be quiet") 1. The method of training the mind by quiet persuasion. 2. Perfect equality is samatva. To detach the mind from all objective things by continually seing their imperfection, and to direct it steadfastly toward the Absolute, is called tranquility. Samadhi - one-pointedness; concentration; absoprtion; union; a calm, desireless fixity; a unifying concentration; "equal mind" (from the verb root dha = to hold + the prefixes a + sam = "together completely"). Samagri - collocation; the whole causal apparatus; totality. Samana - to breathe equally. Samatva - equality; equanimity; equalness. - A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy, Sanskrit Terms Defined in English, John Grimes, revised edition, SUNY, 1996. SAMATHA-YANIKA: One 'who takes Tranquility as his Vehicle.' SAMATHA: 'Tranquility,' serenity, is a synonym of samadhi (concentration), cittekaggata (one-pointedness of mind) and avikkhepa (undistractedness). 'One who has taken tranquility as his vehicle': samathayanika. - Buddhist Dictionary, Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, Nyanatiloka, Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 1970. leveling, tranquility, evenness, sameness, same, landscape without discernment, plateau, smoothness, calming hours of relative tranquility, you might think of me, fighting with are different as, it's not what I'd call a leveling, but a dispersion of in the still exponential growth of memory, somewhat already levelling out. imaginary fissures; the domain of the same and the same, it is the locus, the _holes_ in the thing, became plateaus of past practices, maybe even _pivot_ that thing and identify with the smoothness of the equivalent and never releasing second life into first life and never calming down; a calm trust in calm weather and a calm calm day of hope as in a calm calm summer day; meandering paths among heaps and stones slow streamings, quietude murmurs of pebble movement who is counting here who knows the names relation say to MOO or the quietude of ytalk (Tiffany, it's just the two relation say to MOO or the quietude of ytalk (Tiffany, it's just the one) then there's this (revised): slide.rule the slide-rule processes nothing; there are no processes. there are procedures. the calculator processes everything; there are filters. this is a fundamental distinction. an abacus processes nothing. it is not the distinction between analog and digital. it (not) is the distinction between interior and exterior. the keyboard of a calculator or computer mediates processes and protocols. the beads of an abacus remain in situ. a slide-rule remains in situ. observe the abacus or slide-rule. the results are steady-state. the results are gained solely by human labor, i.e. movement of the beads or slide. the calculator uses an energy source, for example battery or solar power. a wind-up calculator stores energy. a calculator regulates its stored energy. the stored energy is controlled much like the escapement of a clock. the stored energy implements the unobserved steps or procedures tending towards a visible solution. even if every step were accounted for, for example listed in real time in a debugging program - the steps are unobserved. only signifiers, mediators, are observed. the ontology of the slide-rule however may be compared to the epistemology of the abacus or calculator. the abacus founders on ontology and the real. the calculator founders on ontology, the slide-rule on epistemology. the real is of the real. the digital must be manifest, within the analogic. the analogic is present. the ruptures of the abacus are problematized by the fuzzy movement of the beads. an electronic abacus, a digital abacus in other words, is internalized. this is the secret of the digital: its internalization is that of the body; its operations are literally neural, and its protocols are the shape-riding of synaptic signals. the digital has a life of its own; the analogic is inert, and in this sense, even the analogic body is inert. life is always the life of others. ii we look at the slide-rule or abacus. we watch the computer screen. we say 'look at this'; however if we are responsible, we say 'watch this.' we see a film, but watch television. however we look at the computer screen. we look at symptoms, 'look what's happening here.' we watched a film last night. did you see that show on television? look, see, watch - however, with the abacus or slide-rule, with the real, we look. why should we watch the slide-rule? it's not doing anything. watch what i can do with it. watch the carry-over of the abacus beads. we wait with expectation. i wait without expectation. the slide-rule waits for nothing, does not wait. the computer may be in standby or hibernation. the computer or calculator is the filtering and mediation of potential energy. the computer and calculator possess kinetic energy in the carrying- out, performance, of their duties. they are assigned duties. the assignments are flexible, flex-work. the slide-rule and abacus do not possess kinetic energy. or rather: they do not possess internal kinetic energy. for example, a stone may fall; a stone is. of course energy may be reassigned, as may waiting, looking, seeing, watching, interior and exterior. there may or may not be an observer. huang-po may have been such an observer. */ [...] /* Where is Rosset's the idiotic real in the midst of this? Where is anything? The fundamental aesthetics of the universe is its inconceivability; every theory-story, every truth, exhausts itself. I think of Soma-somatic (different roots, not the same), the veering body, the skein of the bodies of others, the internal-external biomes of bodies, the glowering of individual deaths, transcendent glowerings of extinctions. The napier phenomenology of the sliderule is always there, something else has discovered it... Nuclear phenomenology... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
