[-empyre-] Enter...the Octo-Mom
Nicholas Ruiz III
editor at intertheory.org
Sat Apr 11 05:37:55 EST 2009
absolute ingenuity! octo-mom is the symptom, the product and the side-effect of our market/culture parallax...! when everything is genetic Code, we are equal in the sense of gross organic wealth, but then they will (and do) tell us all Code is not created equal...they tell us some Codes are inherently better suited to a particular milieu, some Codes are impaired, and so on, as a function of the market/culture/nature scaffolding... so we enter the era of genetic interventionism octo-reproduction...designer Code for designer Environments it is!?
NRIII
Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org
--- On Sun, 4/5/09, Michael Angelo Tata, PhD <mtata at ipublishingllc.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Angelo Tata, PhD <mtata at ipublishingllc.com>
> Subject: [-empyre-] Enter...the Octo-Mom
> To: "Soft Skinned Space" <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:02 AM
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> Given Nick's reflections on the nature of the gift, and
> of the given in general (for example, the phenomenological
> donne of sense experience), I am left to wonder what happens
> if we retain the theory of the gift central to Derrida's
> thought, yet replace the "God" of the Old
> Testament (the creator who demands an impossible sacrifice
> from Abraham, one which becomes the extreme form of the
> gift, here a violent oblation defying an ethical order and
> necessitating an appeal to "absolute duty" and
> "absolute responsibility") with the DNA of
> biology. What does the gift become under these
> circumstances? What becomes of the interrupted
> economy of the gift, as it suspends the ethical in
> the Augenblick of faith's leap?
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> As for reciprocity, for Derrida, there is a
> fundamental dissymetry between myself and the Other, as
> well as among myself and the "other others" with
> whom I share social concourse: the gift I am expected to
> hand over to the deity is one which will not be
> reciprocated, but refused, causing me to be
> remunerated in a posthumous order where spirirual
> riches accumulate, but only if I forget. With DNA in
> the place of the Other, does this dissymetry remain, or is
> the playng field leveled?
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> For Derrida, to give is to forget that one has given: but
> can we forget our investments?
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> On another note, I am struck by the coincidence of the Wall
> Street crisis and the Octo-Mom's uterine crisis.
> Like an investment scheme, she has taxed the system
> by producing too much debt (all those mouths to feed,
> that shabby house that needed to be replaced, etc.).
> How many embryos were implanted? How many babies
> came out? Is Wall Street an Octo-Mom, or is she merely
> am emblem of excess in a time of defecit?
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> > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:59:42 -0700
> > From: editor at intertheory.org
> > To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Eddies, Whirlwinds, Trade
> Winds
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> > In Derrida's "Given Time", the gift is
> seen as that which may theoretically interrupt economy...but
> in practice the gift cannot help itself; it serves to
> reproduce the relations of exchange through the act of
> reciprocity...such reciprocity of exchange seems to be the
> basis of human relations...
> >
> > In terms of our lives today, internationally, many
> expect the gift of electronic credit and finance, and true
> to form, are expected to return its terms in full
> spatio-temporal reciprocity...and with interest...where did
> we go wrong? Why not simply, gifts, wrapping paper and bows
> for all, with no strings attached?
> >
> > So, we 'give' more, and perhaps, expect more
> too, and increasingly...the ineluctable march of
> 'progress'...is this the way of God or the
> Devil...or some other Way...at the risk of tautology or
> paradox: did we create exchange (the exchange of currency
> takes many forms (e.g. dollars/euros, DNA contributions in
> reproduction, posturing and innuendo in strategies of
> nuclear deterrence, etc.))...if all this true, human culture
> may be but a side effect of some greater process of
> 'crescere,' that expansion and coming to be of
> creative Exchange, no?
> >
> >
> > nick
> >
> >
> > Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D Editor, Kritikos
> http://intertheory.org
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Michael Angelo Tata, PhD
> <mtata at ipublishingllc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Michael Angelo Tata, PhD
> <mtata at ipublishingllc.com>
> > > Subject: [-empyre-] Eddies, Whirlwinds, Trade
> Winds
> > > To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> > > Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 8:35 PM
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> > > Greetings,
> > > all! I’m quite excited to
> > > share this panel with such an eminent bunch, and
> look
> > > forward to undertaking some important reflection
> upon what
> > > the cultural ramifications of the current Wall
> Street
> > > debacle might be, both domestically and globally.
> Basically,
> > > I’ve written a book about Warhol which is
> currently
> > > forthcoming from Intertheory, so hopefully
> Warhol’s own
> > > relation to commerce, as well as the role he has
> been slated
> > > within pomo-ism proper by people like Jameson,
> will become a
> > > part of the discussion.
> > >
> > > Aside from
> > > Warhol, the place toward which my mind
> immediately turns as
> > > I think about what Nicholas refers to as the
> Immaculate
> > > Deception is Camille Paglia’s identification of
> Jacques
> > > Derrida as a junk-bond salesman in her “Junk
> Bonds and
> > > Corporate Raiders” (part of Sex, Art, and
> > > American Culture). I think
> > > my mind races to this piece of writing because it
> does raise
> > > the important question of the potential
> bankruptcy of theory
> > > in general (a risk that does not seem to plague
> > > philosophy quite the same way).
> > >
> > > Glancing anew at Derrida’s The Gift of
> > > Death, I take immense pleasure in the text’s
> flow, the
> > > beautiful post-structural play of surfaces that
> carry me
> > > away on currents of semantic glissement: perhaps
> she’s
> > > right, but without comprehending that the
> problematic she
> > > formulates is wrong because theory is nor
> philosophy, what
> > > it can give transcends the gross objectivity of a
> fact or
> > > datum. Still, there is
> > > Derrida’s love of counterfeit money in Gift
> > > and Given Time.
> > > How does this tropism speak to Madoff’s
> > > antics? To the culture that will
> > > flourish in the wake of collapse and that has
> flowered all
> > > along during these golden years of HELOC madness
> and
> > > Home Depot grand openings? To
> > > the “cultural logic” of late capitalism in
> general, and
> > > the late, late gerontic capitalism of today’s
> > > world?
> > >
> > > Places my
> > > mind travels to next:
> > >
> > >
> > > The
> > > marvelous bankruptcy of American culture in
> > > general—especially in its postmodern
> instantiation. Something for nothing, nothing for
> > > nothing.
> > >
> > >
> > > The Dotcom
> > > crash of the early millennium as prefigurement to
> the
> > > present real estate crash: the no-there-there of
> the virtual
> > > reasserts itself in the financial sector.
> > >
> > >
> > > 9/11 and the
> > > return of a historically meaningful present,
> pace
> > > Baudrillard’s post-history: what is
> > > post-postmodernism? Are we
> > > experiencing it now?
> > > Specifically, what comes next, after irony? The
> Pecker
> > > paradigm.
> > >
> > >
> > > “Yes We Can” becomes “Yes You Can”; the
> Obama
> > > slogan becomes a Pepsi mantra (or is it the Obama
> mantra
> > > becomes the Pepsi slogan?). Where do we go with
> this
> > > mutation?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On a recent
> > > trip to Geneva, I stumbled across a department
> store
> > > (Manor-La Placette) built on the original site
> of
> > > Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s boyhood home: a little
> placard,
> > > tender yet bearing the weight of history, read
> something to
> > > the effect of “Ice est né le petit
> Rousseau….’ How do we read this repurposing of
> > > Rousseau in light of his “Discourse on the Arts
> and
> > > Sciences”? How do we connect
> > > the cultural bankruptcy Rousseau outlines with
> recent Wall
> > > Street hijinks? Commerce and
> > > culture alike straddle an abyss of currency and
> meaning:
> > > what does each realm have to say to the other
> regarding risk
> > > and venture?
> > >
> > > Alright: this little poetic scatter catalogues
> my
> > > various points of inception. I
> > > am looking forward to reading everyone else’s.
>
> > >
> > >
> > > *******************************************
> > > Michael Angelo Tata,
> > > PhD 347.776.1931-USA
> > > http://www.MichaelAngeloTata.com/
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