[NetBehaviour] Phenomenology of the "same"
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Sat Mar 11 01:41:49 CET 2017
Phenomenology of the "same"
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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...
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