Heidegger

Thanks, Michael, for these there riches, especially, for me, the
quivering/quavering way to/of musicking article — sounds yummy.

It’s a wondrous irony that the very relation between articulate speech (in
saying) and (unarticulated) things (spoken of) is unutterably ineffable but
nonetheless only pointable via (articulate) speech. ‘Abstraction’ doesn’t
really catch this. In the same way, pointing to the individuality of the
individual (the uniquely unique) thing is only realisable in articulating
universals (”*the* individual”, *the* unique). To point to the unspeakably
unspeakable (the thing its self, its be-ing, Jud’s individuating
self-changing individuate changing causal object thing…) is to nonetheless
*speak* (one way or another). And, if to speak is to abstract [something I
dispute unless one determines all thinking is abstracting, all words
abstractions], then pointing to the things themselves in the ways they are
themselves as themselves means necessarily abstracting, extracting, drawing,
naming, etc, i.e., speaking. The word “as” has a lot to answer for…

My real point is that speaking (seriously, philosophically, not just with
communicative communicable convenience and convention) is an engagement
with/by be-ing whether one thinks (opinionates) so or not. It can not be
gotten around. Eros sees to this.

regards

michaelP

> Cologne 02-Jan-2007
>
> My current artefact writings now have improved formatting for enhanced
> readability. Please note that due to the reformatting, several
> sub-directories with their sub-files have been deleted.
>
> 1. An Other Beginning — Here Comes Everybody: The Joycean
> work of art
> against the foil of Heidegger’s thinking
> Paper presented to the conference Heidegger und die
> Dichtung in
> Meßkirch 24-28 May 2006.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 2. Technology, Technique, Interplay: Questioning Die Frage
> nach der
> Technik
> Paper presented to the conference 4. Aussprache über
> die Philosophie
> Martin Heideggers 01-03 June 2006 at the Bergische
> University in
> Wuppertal, Germany.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 3. Painting close to the origin
> A philosophical note on how and what Jon Groom’s art
> work reveals.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 4. Social Power and Government — With a focus on Hobbes’
> political
> philosophy
> Thesis: the phenomenon of specifically social power,
> and in particular,
> political social power, has not been conceived
> adequately in the
> philosophical tradition starting with Plato and
> Aristotle.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 5. Exchange, Value, Justice
> A study passing through Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl
> Marx that
> rethinks exchange-value in connection with the question
> of the justice
> of so-called ‘bourgeois relations of production’.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 6. The Principle of Reason and Justice
> Leaping from the ground through Leibniz, Hegel,
> Nietzsche and
> Heidegger to Anaximander and the groundlessness of
> interplay.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 7. Questioning the Earth’s Value
> Including a proposal for a capitalist carbon sink
> industry. The crux of
> this proposal depends on seeing clearly that the
> concept of ground-rent
> is the appropriate one for grasping the value of the
> Earth under that
> constellation of being called capitalism.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 8. Why social justice is a specious idea
> Because it obfuscates the charitable nature of social
> welfare, the idea
> of social justice leads inevitably to an all-caring,
> social-totalitarian state
> that dangerously interferes with the free metabolism of
> civil society and
> undermines the independence and self-reliance of civil
> society’s
> members.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 9. Social Being, Whoness, Freedom — A Sketch
> Paper as presented to the 24th North Texas Heidegger
> Symposium
> Erde—Welt—Umwelt 8-9 April 2005 at The University of
> Dallas, Irving,
> Texas. The thoughts here are distilled from my Social
> Ontology.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 10. Assessing How Heidegger Thinks Power Through the
> History of Being
> The trace of how Heidegger thinks power through the
> history of being
> can be followed back to the concept of energeia in
> Aristotle’s
> Metaphysics. According to Heidegger, this concept is
> the start of the
> trajectory of the being of beings cast as Wirklichkeit,
> actuality. Energeia
> is paired metaphysically with dynamis, i.e. power,
> potential, capability.
> One such power is the art of rhetoric, famously also
> investigated by
> Aristotle. But what is the power of such a know-how
> when faced with
> the otherness of the other?…
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 11. Cologne Theses 03 June 2004
> Theses on how Heidegger’s thinking has to be extended
> and revamped
> to cope with the phenomenon of the other human being,
> the as yet
> unfolded fold in being covered by the ’second person’,
> both singular
> and plural.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/clgnthss….
>
> 12. Heidegger’s Restricted Interpretation of the Greek
> Conception of the
> Political
> Revised and extended version of a paper ‘Heidegger’s
> Apolitical
> Conception of the Political’ (see below) presented to
> the 22nd.
> Heidegger Symposium History, Historicity and Mystery in
> Heidegger
> 30 October-02 November, 2002 University of North Texas.
>
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/…
>
> 13. 1984 Preface to
> Critique of Competitive Freedom and the
> Bourgeois-Democratic State
> This is the preface to my Ph.D. dissertation in
> Philosophy accepted by
> the University of Sydney in 1984.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ccfbdspf….
>
> 14. Heidegger’s Apolitical Conception of the Political
> Twisting Heidegger’s thinking into the ‘horizontal’ of
> social relations.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl….
>
> 15. Casting within Enpropriation and the Leap from Standing
> Presence
> Some observations on Heidegger’s Beiträge zur
> Philosophie and
> leave-taking from metaphysics.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/cstgenpr….
>
> 16. Metaphysics of Feminism: A Critical Note on Judith
> Butler’s Gender Trouble
> Today’s feminist discourse claims to be situated beyond
> the strictures
> of the metaphysics of substance. Butler’s call for the
> subversion of
> “matrices of cultural intelligibility that govern
> gendered life” does not go
> deep enough in questioning gender.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/mtphysfm….
>
> 17. Entwurf einer digitalen Ontologie (Draft Casting of a
> Digital Ontology)
> A study (in both German and English) of the digital
> casting of beings in
> the digital age. Where do the digital beings cast
> before us today come
> from?
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlontl….
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlon_e….
>
> 18. Worldsharing and Encounter: Heidegger and Lévinas
> On the ontology of togetherness (Mitsein), with a
> critical excursus on
> Lévinas’ ethics of the Other as contrast.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/wrldshrg….
>
> 19. The Quivering of Propriation: A Parallel Way to Music
> In parallel to the way language makes way to language,
> music makes
> way to music. Initially, this formula does not make
> much sense…
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/qvrpropn….
>
> 20. Heidegger’s Hölderlin and John Cage
> English version of a paper that attempts to substitute
> John Cage for
> Hölderlin in Heidegger’s thought.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagen….
>
> 21. Heideggers Hölderlin und/and John Cage
> German version of the preceding paper.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagde….
>
> 22. Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger
> English version of a paper that crosses and entwines
> Marx and
> Heidegger to think through the essence of technology
> and capitalism in
> a unified way.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/capiteen….
>
> 23. Kapital und Technik: Marx und Heidegger
> German version of the preceding paper.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/kapitech….
>
> 24. kaum ständig noch (barely still standing) -
> Phenomenology of Masculinity
> A treatise in German on masculinity, whose ontology is
> explored
> through a phenomenology of whoness. A radical,
> genuinely
> philosophical alternative to feminist discourse to date
> (cultural studies,
> psychoanalysis, etc.) is offered.
>  http://home.tiscali.de/artefact/kaumstan…
>
> 25. As — A Critical Note on D.F. Krell’s ‘Daimon Life’
> Having it out with Krell’s treatise on life and
> life-philosophy.
>  http://www.webcom.com/artefact/as_krell….
>
> Forthcoming: Posthumous Writings.
>
> Good thinking!
> Michael

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