Tethering and Toggling Ritual, Juridical and Disciplinary
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What we speak of as ritual is distribution from the center returning to the center including the process of distributing people so as to manage the distribution and return. Needless to say, this permeates all social practices, and once the occupant of the center is no longer sacralized (leaving aside for now how secure he should be in that occupancy) we can proceed to speak of those practices previously known as ritual as central intelligence deeming the same to be returning as the same. Returns are all ultimately “in kind,” even if the kind is money or devotion, and intelligence is intelligence of the same enduring through its circulation (through ever expanding fields of likeness and against some otherness). This means ongoing checking of the channels of communication, which means continual language learning. The financial system, which I have been working on getting my vocabulary around recently, is particularly central to the central intelligence, providing intelligence regarding what is to be distributed and who is at the posts ensuring distribution. In some ways, at some times, it’s an intelligent form of intelligence, but it’s ultimately unintelligent insofar as it provides us with more information regarding arbitrage possibilities and the spread of what Edward LiPuma calls the “speculative ethos” and “monetized subjectivities” than it does regarding the state of social needs and capacities. Everything we do is an attempt to discern and follow the imperatives of the center, which we can now (while continuing to use the more accessible word “ritual”) call findings and foundings of the same.
Tethering and Toggling Ritual, Juridical and Disciplinary
Tethering and Toggling Ritual, Juridical and…
Tethering and Toggling Ritual, Juridical and Disciplinary
What we speak of as ritual is distribution from the center returning to the center including the process of distributing people so as to manage the distribution and return. Needless to say, this permeates all social practices, and once the occupant of the center is no longer sacralized (leaving aside for now how secure he should be in that occupancy) we can proceed to speak of those practices previously known as ritual as central intelligence deeming the same to be returning as the same. Returns are all ultimately “in kind,” even if the kind is money or devotion, and intelligence is intelligence of the same enduring through its circulation (through ever expanding fields of likeness and against some otherness). This means ongoing checking of the channels of communication, which means continual language learning. The financial system, which I have been working on getting my vocabulary around recently, is particularly central to the central intelligence, providing intelligence regarding what is to be distributed and who is at the posts ensuring distribution. In some ways, at some times, it’s an intelligent form of intelligence, but it’s ultimately unintelligent insofar as it provides us with more information regarding arbitrage possibilities and the spread of what Edward LiPuma calls the “speculative ethos” and “monetized subjectivities” than it does regarding the state of social needs and capacities. Everything we do is an attempt to discern and follow the imperatives of the center, which we can now (while continuing to use the more accessible word “ritual”) call findings and foundings of the same.