Re: [microsound] approximations (more techno-mysticism)

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> (1)
> But is not the aleatory excess of language another such way out? 
> When I think of the approximation to musical experience through 
> words, that is just what I mean.  The game is poetry, which is what 
> much criticism for better or worse (and short of Wittgensteinian 
> rigor) ends up in.

Certainly, and this model offers also an escape hatch from the view 
of the Tractatus:  IF the text is prepared to surrender - or 
vulnerabilize as perpetually questionable - its role as primary or 
Truthful (and here I use the early Wittgensteinian notion that truth 
is a collection of statements-that-are-the-case), THEN it becomes one 
of the most beautiful playgrounds available to us.  And for me the 
beauty of the oddly concluded Tractatus is that it questions its own 
rigor:  if language as a perfectly logical structure cannot speak of 
aesthetics, self, divinity, being, or any of the other excluded 
realms of philosophy, it seems to beg one to ask, then of what use is 
it?  And if language is of no use as a logic, perhaps it is more 
sensible as a game (a rule-driven social activity) or as an aesthetic 
surface.  After all, Wittgenstein went on later to discuss private 
languages, and perhaps it is one of these - rather than a truthful 
aesthetics - that is being attempted here, in the efforts of this 
list to create a dialect within which to understand new patterns of 
sound through the existing templates of discourse:  we already intuit 
the truth (such as it is) of the music through the sound itself, yet 
now we require of language that it adjust itself - perhaps through a 
deliberate breakage - to the altered dimensions of the discussable 
world.  Or perhaps we are looking at a sort of jazz, in which the 
critical text improvises over the bed of sound offered in the subject 
music - a karaoke of the text.

> (2)
> Doesn't the image of the unstuffed plaything presuppose a plenitude 
> that is thwarted?  Moreover, is not the beauty of that image itself 
> a kind of talisman against such foils?  At the very least, is it not 
> a warning sign reading "proceed at your own risk"?  (And we do, we 
> do.)

Indeed, and perhaps too it is yet another runaway metaphor, a 
reminder that every plaything can become not only a husk beneath the 
couch but also a menace in traffic.

np - TAGC "Digitaria" (a lovely one by one of the experts in 
obfuscatory and typographically compromised inner sleeve 
entextualizations)
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