[-empyre-] waving?

[Simon]

Dear <<empyreans>>,

I would like to pass on to the list Levi Bryant's article "A World is 
Ending 
<https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/announcement/view/21?fbclid=IwAR3Mce3ny1uoYptruUjRhgiob-ql-zvdke3sGqPqJt62MGNaMECTwkemoCQ>," 
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.

"An entire way of thinking, frame of thought, appears to be a fantasy 
that dreams of escaping our bodies and imbrication in matter."

But to commend it I find the symptomatic status of toilet paper and the 
fragmentation of things formerly unified under the supermarket.

Mortality, Bryant writes, has itself surrendered to an analytic 
critique: our lives in any one life have fallen apart.

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.

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?

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?

Best,

Simon



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