[NetBehaviour] Wittgenstein Driving

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Johannes,

Wittgenstein's been critical to my thinking; I read the TLP when I was I
think 18 and published (academically!) on it; On Certainty's one of my
favorite books, etc. etc.
I think almost but not quite opposite, Lev Shestov, and Bentham on Fictions
and Vaihinger, there's a trail here...
Why wouldn't he drive?

Best, Alan :-)

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:04 PM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> dear Alan, and all
>
> you surprise us with a quotation from L. Wittgenstein (as you drive across
> the united-states-lands), and I was unaware that the philosopher of
> language games (who may have been an odd inspiration for you at some point)
> had been driving, ever. I think he may have been imagining driving, or in
> fact, was he evr in some early automobile traveling from London to Oxford?
> hmm, he died in 1953 and the lectures were held 1933 to 1935....
> Fascinating. The reason I comment today, however, is because I read a
> lovely critical article in Die ZEIT on a current exhibition (in Vienna) on
> Wittgenstein's interest and concern with photography:
>
> https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/122/ludwig-wittgenstein
>
> The article is quizzical, its title funky [Who is my picture?] :  "Wer ist
> mein Bild?
> Eine Wiener Ausstellung über Ludwig Wittgenstein zeigt den Philosophen als
> Fotografen"
>
> ...and commentary on Wittgenstein's apparently quite consistent collection
> of photographs  (and self-images in the old photomats, you know, those
> booths where you sit down and get a strip of 6 photos of your face) is
> illuminating. The exhibit apparently pairs W. with other more contemporary
> media artists, but I love, for example, the comment on scale difference
> (oversize Thomas Ruff, one side,  tiny tiny stamp-size Photomat self
> pictures of W., other side)
>
> >>
> Die Ausstellung wurde mit großem kuratorischen Feinsinn und mit Gespür für
> Raumwirkung zusammengestellt. Vor allem das Spiel der Korrespondenzen
> zwischen den manchmal briefmarkenkleinen Wittgenstein-Fotos und den
> zeitgenössischen Blow-ups, die die Wände füllen, gelingt erstaunlich gut.
> Es ist nur so, dass mit Fortdauer der Schau, die sich durch neun Räume im
> Leopold Museum zieht, der Eindruck entsteht, dass weniger womöglich mehr
> gewesen wäre. Denn die Bilder aus der Sphäre Wittgensteins, der ja auch
> nach dem Vorbild von Lessing einen Laokoon für Fotografen schreiben wollte,
> bezeugen eher Intimität und familiäre Diskretion, während die
> Echo-Phänomene aus der aktuellen Fotokunst gelegentlich übertriebenes
> Blockbuster-Feeling herstellen. Aber trotz solcher Einwände: Man hat selten
> eine Ausstellung gesehen, bei der ein so sperriges und hermetisches Thema
> wie Ludwig Wittgensteins Verhältnis zur Fotografie überzeugend in visuelle
> Erfahrungen übersetzt wurde.>>**
>
>
> And here is Ludwig on the ontology of the photo:
>
> "Man kann sagen, der Begriff 'Spiel' ist ein Begriff mit verschwommenen
> Rändern", schreibt Wittgenstein in seinen Philosophischen Untersuchungen.
> "Aber ist ein verschwommener Begriff überhaupt ein Begriff? – Ist eine
> unscharfe Photographie überhaupt ein Bild eines Menschen?"
>
> with regards
> Johannes Birringer
>
> **
>
> https://www.zeit.de/2021/47/ludwig-wittgenstein-fotografie-ausstellung-wien#:~:text=Es%20sind%20Bilder%20aus%20der,einem%20Phantombild%2C%20einer%20%C3%A4sthetischen%20Halluzination
> .
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: 01 December 2021 16:28
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> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Wittgenstein Driving
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>
> Wittgenstein Driving
>
> http://www.alansondheim.org/Ludwigatthewheel.jpg
> http://www.alansondheim.org/Ludwigatthewheel.mp4 video
>
> "Now when in the solipsisitic way I say '_This_ is what's really
> seen', I point before me and it is essential that I point
> _visually._ If I pointed sideways or behind me - as it were, to
> things which I don't see - the pointing would in this case be
> meaningless to me; it would not be pointing in the sense in
> which I wish to point. But this means that when I point before
> me saying 'this is what's really seen', although I make the
> gesture of pointing, I don't point to one thing as opposed to
> another. This is as when travelling in a car and feeling in a
> hurry, I instinctively press against something in front of me as
> though I could push the car from inside."
>
> - Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books, Preliminary
> Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigations,' Harper, 1965,
> (original 1958), p. 71.
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