Issue # 5

Appropriate

 

  Mining Language: Speaking Heidegger

Opening

Not from (but from) owning.

Heidegger speaks I listen. Speaking silence untranslatable.

designate entry:

Hegel, Georg Whilhelm Friedrich.

See also FRANKFURT SCHOOL, IDEALISM, KANT, PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.

Hegelians, Young.

See HEGEL.

Hegesias.

See CYRENAICS.

Heidegger, Martin.

 

The mouthpiece of Being, which happens to speak modern German this time 'round.

Once spoke ancient Greek.


the ear hears the voice that is being read the voice that is hearing itself speak as the hand marks the paper imagining itself hearing being spoken at an intimate gathering

he is speaking not me as I read him hearing about something that is speaking through him

he has heard it all before in another fashion the same thing saying exactly the same thing only less distinct

I listen to the silence through which his voice becomes mine as the black marks are animated into interior monologue

but only echoes


Untranslatable silence. His (Its) voice will never be mine.

Owning owes (owing owns) nothing.


Darkness Silence

Impenetrable interiority?

Problem: 'Man would not be man if it were denied him to speak -- ceaselessly, ubiquitously, with respect to all things, in manifold variations, yet for the most part tacitly -- by way of an "It is"'.

Let's think of someone else …

Never hearing. Never seeing.

(mining language -- "bestrewn with obstacles … that arise from language itself the moment we try to suspend every type of diversion and follow its trail into what is purely its own.")

Never speaking. Never writing.

Imagine:
Without language a language. A basic wordless word based on heat, smell, taste, touch, a grammar of surfaces. An imaginary world springs into Being without having once heard or seen a word. A language older than words, a language that is only beginning, free of obstacles, the obstructions of too much hearing and too much seeing. I do not speak it, I cannot write it, it is not here.

Worlds in darkness, silence below the threshold of philosophical audibility. Underworld never meant to Be. Not properly human, or not properly language, or not my language?

This still ringing.

Distill.


Project Information

Order. Inventory.

Speaking in tongues. Babble. Natural language is …

Digitisation of brain functions to plan. A simple but cunning plan.

The manifold increase of outlets for disseminating information and calculating probabilities. Uncertainty certainly.

Designs a scheme to subvert the system by pushing its own trends even further. Who designs what designation,

"that kind of information by virtue of which a man is molded and adjusted into the technical--calculative creature, a process by which step-by-step he surrenders his 'natural language.'"

Formalisation means mathematics -- 0s and 1s circulating integrated circuits conducting code input/output procedure is all (is all) is all.

Paranoia: the earth should never be viewed from the moon.

Denial: soup cans follow. Its not the Nazi party that went wrong. Its soup cans.

Its information technology.
It's information technology.

Acceptance: "That concealment here becomes telling somehow suggests both enhancement and negation of owning and eyeing."

Enframe me, make me a world-picture. Eye see.


Requiem

"What if propriation -- when and how, no one knows -- were to become a penetrating gaze, whose clearing lightning strikes what is and what the being is held to be? What if propriation by its entry withdrew every present being that is subject to sheer orderability and brought that being back into its own?"

This is solitude speaking. Speaking to you myself alone.

Let language bloom.

Pledged to the unsaid, "the saying whose thinking is a thanking."

The owning is not ours.

Its not right.
It's not.
W rite.

 

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