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<p>Dear <<empyreans>>,</p>
<p>I would like to pass on to the list Levi Bryant's article "<a
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World is Ending</a>," because it both has much to commend it and
offers much to contest. For example, I find it strange that one
who has written so well about Deleuze should think the Kantian
transcendental framing of thought is what the current situation
might reveal to be a fantasy. <br>
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<p>"An entire way of thinking, frame of thought, appears to be a
fantasy that dreams of escaping our bodies and imbrication in
matter."</p>
<p>But to commend it I find the symptomatic status of toilet paper
and the fragmentation of things formerly unified under the
supermarket.</p>
<p>Mortality, Bryant writes, has itself surrendered to an analytic
critique: our lives in any one life have fallen apart. <br>
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<p>I would rather suggest this is what happens in experience but
that it is seldom noticed. It happens as experience, takes the
form of experience and is its formation: the apodictic experience
of geometry Stiegler borrows from Hegel; or that experience of
mathematics' demonstrable proofs of which Spinoza writes.</p>
<p>Our lives in any one life--our households in any one home--our
states and nations in any one state or nation--should we from this
or must we from this infer the unity of a past passing through an
apocalypse of the present and its fragmentation to a future unity
which is such that it can be--or should be--or must be--revealed?</p>
<p>A community to come... of the same... promises the same... when
communicability--whether through the transcendental frame or
through the porosity of borders and bubbles and bodies--reveals
itself to be, is the problem, or question?</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Simon</p>
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