I am trying to provide programming language for bettering our relation to the center. Humans have never left the originary scene; rather, humanity has been an ongoing attempt to better the terms of that scene which, in fact, has never been “quite right,” having been improvised from the start (this observation alone should be enough to dismiss any nostalgia or desire to restore any tradition). The first problem of humanity is the problem still—to indicate by the same sign that we are all seeing the same central thing—rather than deism, the problem is deicticism. In a broken, non-linear way we have continually created greater distance between ourselves and such a center, introducing an ever more complexly articulated array of proxies which would, through a never completed series of delays, provide us with intelligence regarding required actions to ensure the center keeps providing intelligence. In this sense every human order is total, if not “totalitarian”—we are always, each and every one of us, leveraged. Capitalism, in Bichler and Nitzan’s understanding, as value determined by discounting against expected future earnings, is simply a particular, and particularly consequential, endpoint in this development. Everything move we make is a ritual gesture aimed at calling into being a particular array of gestures deriving intelligence from the center. In that case, though, we can relativize the concept of “ritual,” rather than using it counter-intuitively to describe “secular” actions, and speak in terms of establishing a durable same as opposed to some other across a field of likenesses—durability is key here, because what I say or do now must continue to be the same against whatever that saying or doing defers implicitly forever; which commits me to continually intervening in the infrastructural conditions that will make it so and generate proxies who will in turn continual to make it so—or make it have been so, which introduces infra-referentiality into the equation.
Programming the Same
Programming the Same
Programming the Same
I am trying to provide programming language for bettering our relation to the center. Humans have never left the originary scene; rather, humanity has been an ongoing attempt to better the terms of that scene which, in fact, has never been “quite right,” having been improvised from the start (this observation alone should be enough to dismiss any nostalgia or desire to restore any tradition). The first problem of humanity is the problem still—to indicate by the same sign that we are all seeing the same central thing—rather than deism, the problem is deicticism. In a broken, non-linear way we have continually created greater distance between ourselves and such a center, introducing an ever more complexly articulated array of proxies which would, through a never completed series of delays, provide us with intelligence regarding required actions to ensure the center keeps providing intelligence. In this sense every human order is total, if not “totalitarian”—we are always, each and every one of us, leveraged. Capitalism, in Bichler and Nitzan’s understanding, as value determined by discounting against expected future earnings, is simply a particular, and particularly consequential, endpoint in this development. Everything move we make is a ritual gesture aimed at calling into being a particular array of gestures deriving intelligence from the center. In that case, though, we can relativize the concept of “ritual,” rather than using it counter-intuitively to describe “secular” actions, and speak in terms of establishing a durable same as opposed to some other across a field of likenesses—durability is key here, because what I say or do now must continue to be the same against whatever that saying or doing defers implicitly forever; which commits me to continually intervening in the infrastructural conditions that will make it so and generate proxies who will in turn continual to make it so—or make it have been so, which introduces infra-referentiality into the equation.