The Double Economy:
Essays
on Diremption. Vol. III
Peter Nesteruk
Contents.
1 Introduction
3 On Being Dirempt:
Cultural Zoning, Desire & Meaning…
31 Diremption
as a Key to the Arts
46 Diremption,
Language and the Arts
52 Aesthetics and Diremption
(Statues, the Ruin and Architecture)
65 Agon:
Politics and Diremption: Sacrifice and Salvation.
70 Redemption, Diremption,
Romanticism
73 Diremption
Writ
Large… (the Sublime)
79 Diremption
and Action
89 Diremption
and Class
102
Diremption and Gender
120
Changing Culture
127
Left/Right Brain…
131
Diremption, Linguistics and
Semiotics (Peirce)
154
Production/Interpretation
161
On ’Connection’…
168
Connecting Interiority and Exteriority (‘in and out’)
173
The Problem with Predicates
185
Connection, Function…
204
Three forms of Knowledge…
212
The Notion of Exchange
219
Connectors and Fault-lines
226
Self as Figure
232
Self as Connection…
244
Diremption and Difference
249
Deconstruction and Diremption
263
Some Conclusions…
293
‘Belatedness’ (Quantum & Gödel)
302
Quantum Implications
307
AI & Diremption
Introduction
This
third volume of The Double Economy:
Essays on Diremption pursues further the role of
the diremption in areas touched upon in the previous
two volumes (not least the obsessive concern with ‘connection-making’),
suggests potential insights into current issues and extends the question of diremption in the arts (begun in the previous two volumes),
with specific reference to music (which is the topic of a future volume, In Place of a Philosophy of Music). The
interested reader may also wish to glance at two other related books, which
take up two other important aspects of the arts, Comparative Art : East and West for visual
culture and Gesta, Tragedy, Noir, for the verbal arts in
‘the Western Tradition’.
This
volume begins with ‘On Being Dirempt’, an attempt at
a general application, including another look at the links of diremption to desire; and is followed by several essays on
the arts. Politics (religion and ideology) offers issues such as Salvation,
Redemption and the Sublime. Topical issues follow: Gender, Class, and ‘Changing
Culture’.
The
devil is indeed in the detail… as we shall see in the essays on Semiotics,
Linguistics, Logic, Predicates and Deconstruction: whilst other essays focus
upon interconnectivity, the question of interior and exterior points of view
and exchange relations.
The
last section takes up again the question of connection making and knowledge
-including perhaps one of the most important essays in this collection, ‘Self
as Connection…’ Whilst ’Some Conclusions...’ attempts to perform what its title
both promises and mentions...
Finally
I touch on the ‘belated’ topicality (or better, resistance to the implications)
of Quantum Physics and Gödel’s famous theorem…
And
the ‘last word’ goes to AI…
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Positive
outcomes, or useful elements generated by the arguments in these volumes include… First, regarding inner relations, we
have the object as other /Object as Other, as companion to all issue of
identity, recognition as well as ‘sublime type’ relations… so suggesting that
we find the trace of the object point of view and its constitutional effect on
the diremption as self
consciousness as a trace in all object relations… These ‘elements’ are,
of course, ‘always already’ merged or co-influencing, with self or subject and
perceived object as a trace of the past offering the possibility of their recognition,
in the case of self with ‘perceived’ or rather imagined self, as ‘in object
point of view’… and so subject to infinite oscillation (or we might say the
object of infinite oscillation)…
Second,
there are the ‘outer’ or social facets of the diremption
or the existence of several cultural manifestations of the diremption
as, the ‘four’ aspects of culture, each with their particular manifestation of
the diremption and its own pattern of evolution or
process of transformation - happening as we speak… (as
the sciences, arts and cultures around us transform…).
The
thought of social diremption as global… as we note
the flow and exchange of the role of ‘other’ in cultures, geographies,
populations and economies (’home’- ‘where do you come from?’ and ‘where do you
think you are going?’) and (yet ‘closer to home’) genders and not forgetting
the other animals of our planet and its -or better ‘their’- environment… All
products of subjectivities, and the claims of who may speak for whom… (as contesting global points of view, and who may ‘see’ for
whom...). All part of how we imagine ourselves and our relations to others
(again a by-product of ourselves in our imaginary ‘object
point of view’). Pace Lacan then, there is an
‘Other of the Other’; if the Other is machine and we
its imagined Other - as we now imagine ‘it/them’.
‘Object
as Other’ indeed…
In parallel. Object as other in
self (the on-going creation of the self): and Object as Other
in society… (sublime experience and its social
appropriation as ‘religion’ - after Animism)…
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As
with previous volumes, some circling and repetition is involved
(‘hermeneutics’) often the difference is a question of angle or approach (my
excuse)… so again I crave the reader’s patience…
Beijing,
2024
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