[-empyre-] escaping work & having your mass and monad too

[simon]

I am thinking today about the cloud before the field, the cloud of 
radioactive dust, the cloud of the city's dust rising as the entirety of 
the plane was shaken like a carpet. Deleuze invokes the cloudedness of 
the event as the impression gained from being in its field. Which is not 
the same as its path or its horizon, inflection or limit. And if we are 
then taken up in this cloudedness... there is, to quote Davin, "beyond 
inconvenience"  (!) ... "substantial ethical and physiological" risk.

He actually says, "it carries." And he is talking about singularities 
singularly more pleasurable than those I am recalling. Despite the 
renunciation of subjective autonomy.

He points in his last paragraph to what Simon Biggs, I think, called a 
more dystopian possibility? That dread and fear have been systematised 
to the extent that even if the renunciation involved falling in love the 
contemporary subject might be too undersupplied with faith to enter the 
field, too untrusting, too systematically bullied.

Davin ends with a call to teach, train, habituate to trusting - a kind 
of mission. Mission statement invoking a virtuous life.

... But to open open open to fields which do not first communicate ... 
their intentions, inflection, their ends, at the limits of capture.

I have in mind the idea that the field cannot be expected to 
communicate, whereas in such a relation as this one, among friends, it 
is more difficult to get lost and remain a part. And that, in part, a 
renunciation of communication is what capture by a strong field will - 
because of its enclouding (& disencoding enchantment) - dispense and is 
what might be called its reason or sense.

Best,

Simon Taylor

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