blackmarketbutter » subjectivity http://blackmarketbutter.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:02:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Let us redefine our lexicon http://blackmarketbutter.com/18.04.2010/let-us-redefine-our-lexicon/ http://blackmarketbutter.com/18.04.2010/let-us-redefine-our-lexicon/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:15:17 +0000 colby http://blackmarketbutter.com/?p=311 Let us redefine our lexicon and reject (though not completely, not to reject the role of the lexicon itself) these terms that only serve to distance us from what they supposedly try to bring us closer to and instead use these definitions as articulations of exactly  what they are not. Exactly, but not completely, for while we can achieve a pseudo-exactness of what it is not, what it is will be forever ambiguous. Let us reject education and its pedagogical implication of teacher and student. Let us reject meaning as an objective existence. Reject artist and its companion genius, as if what the artist expresses is not the shared existence of experience, as if to create ‘art’ is different in any way from the perception of art beyond the individual satisfactions of those involved. In their absence let the mediating charms of communication, subjectivity and ambiguity unite the dissonance of our existence. Let knowledge be a dialogical expression of philosophy with endless equilibrium as the closest form it takes to definition with knowledge being used in the vaguest sense to embody any single will, emotion or thought of unbound potential and communication as the means, or the medium, in which its conveyance is attempted.

]]> http://blackmarketbutter.com/18.04.2010/let-us-redefine-our-lexicon/feed/ 0 Pynchon on integration http://blackmarketbutter.com/12.01.2010/pynchon-on-integration/ http://blackmarketbutter.com/12.01.2010/pynchon-on-integration/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:05:43 +0000 colby http://blackmarketbutter.com/?p=198 The young stastician is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements. Some are always in bright excitation, others darkly inhibited. The contours, bright and dark, keep changing. But each point is allowed only the two states: waking or sleep. One or zero. “Summation,” “transition,” “irradiation, “concentration,” “reciprocal induction” – all Pavlovian brain-mechanics – assumes the presence of these bi-stable points. But to Mexico belongs the domain between zero and one – the probabilities.

-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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