[NetBehaviour] 12:43 AM next theoretical installment:

[Johannes Birringer]

dear Alan

your "next theoretical installment" yesterday was a wonderful start into the Klaus day;
probably the most humorous and scrupulous text & reflection on doing things (such as writing) &
on not answering to yourself or others, you've shared with us in a while, I enjoyed it much
regards
Johannes Birringer

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12:43 AM next theoretical installment:

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So I immediately came into the back room and decided that I would
dictate as usual we're not as usual what this piece is going to be
which was a kind of theoretical demonstration and reply to someone
who thought what I was usually doing is poetry. I never think of
my work or almost never think of my work as poetry. Unless it is
rhymed. It seems to me that it's a way of doing philosophy and
Theory without having to call on the minions of references that
appear in ordinary theoretical discourse. I am answering to no
one. I'm not even answering to myself. I am not questioning anyone
else or critiquing anyone else. I am critiquing or questioning
only my help. It is a way of proceeding with an inner dialogue
that obviously references in my own mind the reading or work that
I am doing in terms of more traditional Philosophy. For example
now I have been looking at Saint Anselm has logic. I've been
looking and thinking a little bit about Whitehead. I've been
thinking and looking at the talmud. These are just older antique
references but they form a kind of constellation that I can
proceed from. I'm also thinking about electrical circuits and the
way that circuits and their notes add up to in various ways in
various configurations various numbers of branches. There's always
an electrical connection. What we do is based on electrical
connections. From one end of a wire to another there are things
going on internally that are fairly well understood but the
information that might be carried by this things might not be that
well understood. There is also a grounding a cable that is dropped
from the circuit that can drain it almost immediately. All
information is lost. This is what's called the fragility of good
things. It's something that appeared as a phrase in catastrophe
Theory. Catastrophe theory. In particular a book by Arnold that
used it as a way of indicating that whatever goes on properly is
only a minuscule microscopic or less amount of what can
conceivably go on. Popularly more things can go wrong as I can go
right. To go right is a knife-edge no matter how right is defined.
So this was not the topic of what I came back here to think about
and to write to you about. Back here or means back into another
room where I have Solace and quietude and the ability to think
through these dialogues. Which are monologues. Although they may
not seem as monologues. When I came back here to dictate the
dialogue or the monologue however I found that what had happened
was as a result of fatigue and exhaustion and anxiety and
depression and a Wandering mind was I forgot the topic I had
initially intended to discuss. I still no longer remember the
topic. I don't remember a single bit of what I was going to talk
about. So that philosophy that philosophical direction is lost and
replated replaced that's that. That's single philosophical
direction is lost and replaced by this enormous influence of wrong
directions. Sorry immediately came into the back room and decided
that I would dictate as usual or not as usual what this piece is
going to be which was it kind of theoretical demonstration And
reply to someone who thought what I was usually doing is poetry. I
never think of my work or almost never think of my work as poetry.
Unless it is rhyme. It seems to me that it's a way of doing
philosophy and theory without having to call on the minions of
references that appear in ordinary theoretical discourse. I am
answering to no one. I am not even answering to myself. I am not
questioning anyone else or critique in anyone else. I am
critiquing or questioning only myself. It is a way of proceeding
with an inner dialogue that obviously references in my own mind
the reading or works that I am doing in terms of more traditional
philosophy. For example now I have been looking at Saint and Selms
logic. I've been looking and thinking a little bit about
Whitehead. I've been thinking and looking at the Talmud. These are
just older antique references but they form a kind of
constellation that I can proceed from. I'm also thinking about
electrical circuits and the way that circuits and their nodes add
up to in various ways in various configurations to it various
numbers of branchings. There's always an electrical connection.
What we do is based on electrical connections. From one end of a
wire to another there are things going on internally that are
fairly well understood but the information that might be carried
by this things might not be that will understood. There is also a
grounding a cable that is dropped from the circuit that can drain
it almost immediately. All information is lost. This is what's
called the fragility of good things. It's something that appeared
as a phrase in catastrophe theory. Catastrophe theory. In
particular book by Arnold that used it as a way of indicating that
whatever goes on properly is only a miniscule microscopic or less
amount of what kind conceivably go on. Popularly more things can
go wrong than can go right. To go right is a knife edge no matter
how right is defined. So this was not the topic of what I came
back here to think about and to write to you about. Back here
means back into another room where I have solace and quietude and
the ability to think through these dialogues. Which are
monologues. Although they may not seem as monologues. When I came
back here to dictate the dialog or the monologue however I found
that what had happened was as a result of fatigue and exhaustion
and anxiety and depression and a wandering mind was I forgot the
topic I had initially intended to discuss. I still no longer
remember the topic. I don't remember a single bit of what I was
going to talk about. So that philosophy that philosophical
direction is lost and replated replaced that's that. That single
philosophical direction is lost and replaced by this enormous
affluence of wrong directions. The world is constructed of bubbles
of wrong directions. Some of them work momentarily like the
viruses. Some of them don't work at all. If there were going to be
a

It would begin now as such. And as you can see that has occurred.
And will come to an end. If you deconstruct all of this you'll see
the organization that underlies this and every aspect of a very
problematic world it might in fact just touch on to the edge of
our real one. Or at least the only one we know.

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