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Brain mythologies
Karl Jaspers is considered the founder of psychopathology as a science with its own object and own methodology. This foundation was built substantially on his rebuttal of naturalistic reductionism, which is an attempt to reduce mental phenomena and instances of mental illness to the brain's organic substrate. Psychopathology as a science is based, by contrast, on the assumption that mental abnormalities bear a meaningful and gestalt-like character and thus cannot be exhausted by listing symptoms, which would then be understood as direct reflections of neurobiological disturbances. In his critique of the "Brain Mythologies" in his day, Jaspers opposes overhasty localization of mental functions to certain centers of the brain as well as absolutization of causal research. He contrasts this reductionist approach with an understanding-based approach, established through reenactment, empathy, and thereby the internal relatedness that the therapist feels towards his patient as a fellow human being. The relevance of the Jaspersian critique will be established in view of the current neurobiological paradigm in psychiatry. At the same time, it will be asserted that psychopathology today has become insufficient by being restricted solely to the domain of conscious subjectivity. Only if psychopathology surpasses the subjectivism of understanding and considers biological processes as such to be socially and historically constituted, will it be able to regain its relevance.
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Fuchs, T. (2014)., Brain mythologies, in T. Fuchs, T. Breyer & C. Mundt (eds.), Karl Jaspers' philosophy and psychopathology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 75-84.
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Clandestine life in the open. by Gerardo Muñoz
In the very last article that Maurice Blanchot wrote for the collective publication Comité in the wake of May 68, he draws a scenario that is still very much with us in the present. The "realism" is almost outstanding when Blanchot writes the following: "…from now on I will hold onto an exigency: to become fully conscious that we at the end of history, so that most of our inherited notions, beginning with the from the revolutionary tradition, must be reexamined and, as such, refuted. Let us put everything into question, including your own certainties and verbal hopes. The revolution is behind us: it is already an object of consumption, and occasionally, of enjoyment." [1]. There was no question that the crisis of the very foundation of modern political thought has collapsed, including, as it couldn't be otherwise, the generative principle of revolution. Blanchot did not even attempt to convince himself that the revolution could be brought back in an astronomical sense to revitalize a naturalism previous to Rousseau's social contract.
So, for Blanchot the revolution was over, and yet, whatever it was that followed had no name. What was left, then? In order to avoid paralysis, Blanchot toyed during those months at the Comité (September-December 1968) with two possible maneuvers. The first position resided in what he called the "movement of possible speech" in order to establish an ardent and rigorous relation between the sequence of the French May and the Czech May, Soviet domination and Gaullian State. Blanchot called for (in the spirit of Bataille) a "transgressive speech": "the impetus of outrageous, ways speaking beyond, spilling over, and thus threatening everything that contains and has limits" [2]. But we know that transgression is still within the logistics of the administration of order and temporal containment of the regulated exception. This was, in fact, the very rupture of the revolutionary break that was in crisis.
But Blanchot was up to something along with his friend Dionys Mascolo in thinking through language and communication as a path towards the outside. Hence the second option, which is really a third option (after the sleepwalking of ideological revolutionary 'racketing' of voluntarism); mainly, what he calls, although does not get to tease it out, the "clandestine resistance in the open". Blanchot only tells us what he is thinking about through a recent example: some members of the Czech resistance when law was suspended had to confront the raw enemy military power, but they also experienced a freedom "through words and through writing than ever before", tells us Blanchot. But this still does not explain much, given that if there is a naked military power threatening us, how could something like a clandestine form of life take place in the open? And at what risk?
I think one way to read this incorrectly or insufficiently would be to think of Blanchot's suggestions as a sort of martyrdom or self-immolation. But it is no less true that Blanchot wanted to avoid a sort of Batallian "inner experience" or monastic xeniteia. Thus, he "refused" the fiction of self-clandestine life as sponsored by the Situationists; while, at the same time, also rejecting subjective revolutionary militancy. A third way emerges: the clandestine life into presence by way of friendship. A new "estilo de vida", which I think could be read in the way that cryptojews and averroists lived in early Modern Spain: "a modo de sociedades secretas o semi-clandestinas, deben haber concebido la filosofía como un estilo de vida para sus iniciados…" [3]. Unlike the bogus image of the secret society as an alienated community of knuckleheads, I think what emerges in the clandestine open region is a form of shared friendship that does not retreat from the world, but rather that is capable of living in it. This was most definitely the transformative practice that during these years, Dionys Mascolo, dared to call the communism of thought that for him belonged to Hölderlin rather than to Marx. If open conspiracy is an act of the sharing and participating in language without meaning or command dependence, then this is already a poetic practice. After all, for Hölderlin the poets reveal an originary loss from nature. It is no surprise that Hölderlin favors a world opening even after the destruction of the leader-figure of the poet (Empedocles).
So, there is only clandestine life in the open when the sharing of language among friends take place (an event). This use of language is always harboring on the threshold of the last word to come. In short, the clandestine form of life has nothing oblique with respect to the world – it is not necessarily the space of an infinite night of contemplation, and it is also indifferent about fugitivity – it demands a return to appearance by way of experience. This might explain what Gilles Deleuze tells Dionys Mascolo at the end of their correspondence about friendship and thought: "it is a question of what we call and experience as philosophy" [4]. This form of experiential thought against the dissatisfaction of political domestication points a way out. For Blanchot this was a "fragmentary, lengthy, and instantaneous" path; a conspiratio unlocked by philia.
1. Maurice Blanchot. "On the Movement", in Political Writings 1953-1993 (Fordham University Press, 2010), 106.
2. Maurice Blanchot. "Clandestine resistance in the open", in Political Writings 1953-1993 (Fordham University Press, 2010), 106.
3. Francisco Márquez Villanueva. "El caso del averroísmo popular español", in Cinco Siglos de La Celestina: aportaciones interpretativas (1997), 121-134.
4. Gilles Deleuze. "Correspondence with Dionys Mascolo", in Two Regimes of Madness (Semiotexte, 2007), 332-338.
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The schism of the species: theses on Dionys Mascolo's La révolution par l'amitié (2022). by Gerardo Muñoz
1. Remembrance without restitution. The publication of Dionys Mascolo's essays in La révolution par l'amitié (La fabrique, 2022) opens a path to a singular thinking that refused to conform to a master thinking, and even less what has come to us as political theory, or radical critique. Theory and critique have shown their resilient adaptiveness to university discourse. Thinking, on the contrary, moves annexes a relation with the missing word. This caesura negates the closure of both politics and community, it shows its insufficiency. In a letter to Maurice Blanchot regarding his ceased friend Robert Antelme, Mascolo comes to terms with this specific question: the remembrance of what loss in the actual word is – the voice of his friend Robert Antelme – what cannot be posited as a restitution of representation, but rather as effective effort to transcend mutism and silence that would have sunk writing into a pathos not short of a "miserabilist" stance [1]. The exigency of language is absolute. In an analogous way, we can say that the writing in La revolution par l'amité (La fabrique, 2022) is not a matter of restituting the history of Marxism, the intellectual debates of French theory, or even the burial site of a thinker that rejected repeatedly the metaphysical function of the public intellectual (a sort of captain at the steering wheel of public opinion, a cybernetician); but rather the remembrance that thinking is the irreductible site of common to the species. Remembrance has no "archive" and it does not produce anything; on the contrary, it invites a path to thinking in order to bring the absolutism of reality to an end.
2. The irreducibility of the species. For Mascolo – as for Nicola Chiaromonte – the stimmung of the modern age is not a lack of faith, but a bad faith subscribed by the subject of knowledge, a guardian of the nexus of legitimacy. In his practice of writing, Mascolo explored something like a countermovement to the rationality of the intellectual posture, in which communication ceases to be a common means in order to become a production of ends and instrumentality. Hence, what Mascolo called the "part irreductible" – and its "doubt in any system of organized ideas in sight" – is the only intuition of the unity of the species in communication. And if the intellectual is an organic unity of hegemony that replaces the function of the priest in the Church bureaucracy and its paideia (recall Antonio Gramsci's "organic intellectual"), for Mascolo irreducibility in the sharing of thought in communication is "not political" as he states in Autour d'un effort de mémoire – Sur une lettre de Robert Antelme (1987). This step back from the production of modern politics thoroughly imagines another figure of communism. It is at this point where the whole Cold War polemics between humanism and anti-humanism is destituted internally: the species finds a way out of political domestication.
3. Communism of thought. We can understand why for Mascolo "the word communism really belongs more to Hölderlin than to Marx, as it designates all the possibilities of thought; that which escapes in thinking, and only that can constitute its work (oeuvre)" [2]. In other words, communism for Mascolo is not a matter of doctrine or an Idea, nor about philosophy of history and its inversion; it is not about a political subject or a unity of organization of political force; communism is a use of thought in language in proximity with what escapes in every communication. The inoperative communism, hence, is only possible in friendship, as a continuous experimentation of taste that cannot coincide with a community form. As Mascolo writes in his essay on Antelme: "We did not live in community. This is a deceptive word…we existed in a sentiment of mutual gift of freedom" (53). Any reinvention of a politics to come after the collapse of authority must commence with this rejection of a compensatory communitarian closure. Today only a conspiratio between friends can animate a new field of intensification for renewal.
4. Refusal and friendship. Even in his earliest stages of writing such as "Refus incoditionnel" (1959), the condition for friendship for Mascolo is to refuse the current state of things; to retreat from the demand of reality in order to survive in the imagination of the shared word. In this sense, the thematic of friendship does not make subjects of duty towards a social bond, but rather a secret in the word designated by separation. Friendship floats high above symbolic representation, as it moves to an inclination that is singulare tantum. If modern politics thought itself as a repression and administration of the hostis; for Mascolo the practice of friendship is the sacred space that is never inherited, but, precisely the dwelling of those who "seek" after in the wake of the homelessness of man and nature. This is analogous to Hölderlin's allowance of thought which moves in passion while accounting for the abyss of our relationship with the world (aorgic) of originary detachment.
5. Revolution as style. In a brief text on the Cuban revolution of 1959, originally written for the collective exhibition Salón de Mayo in Havana, Mascolo says a new revolution in the island could potentially offer a the opportunity of a new style [3]. Of course, as soon as Fidel Castro supported the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, it was clear that such promised crumbled, and that the Revolution will fall well within the paradigm of the metaphysics of historical project and the subject ("a new man"). But what is style? Once again, this speaks directly to Mascolo's passion for the irreductible outside of the subject, and for this reason never alienated from the schism of the species. The notion of style relates fundamentally to our exposition to the outside, to the event of expropriation, which defines our fidelity to the invariant dimension of our character. A new style, therefore, is not something to be produced, an effect of the subject, but rather the unit of an ethical practice in our encounter with the outside. If the apparatus of the revolution was instituted as a the production of a civilization; the fidelity to a style names the modes of life that cannot be oriented towards a specific work. A new aberrant freedom emerges.
6. Saint-Just's ethos. Mascolo never ceased to reflect on the ethical determination of politics, against politics, and for a transfigurative notion of a politics for the here and now. And he dwelled on this problem in his writings on the ethical figure of Saint-Just during the French Revolution ("Saint Just" and "Si la lecture de Saint-Just est possible"). Unlike the monumental historiographies – both left and right, revolutionary and conservative, historicist or revisionist – that situated the revolutionary under the sign of Terror and Revolution, of will power and the emergency of Jacobinism; for Mascolo Saint-Just stands a figure that keeps an important secret. And this is it: "the inhumanity of Saint Just is that unlike many men, he does not possess many lives but only one" (130). This is a concrete definition of a ethos that is irreducible to the "monstrous arts of government" in an epoch where the political had become the secularization of fate. In the same way that Hölderlin turned his gaze towards the impossible and concealed distance of the moderns in relation to truth of the Greeks, for Mascolo's Saint-Just the legitimacy of the modern universalization (in the State, the Subject, the Social) does not have the last word. The ethos of life keeps the remembrance of an abyss of the monstrosity of historical universality and the social equality.
7. Borrowed existence. Dionys Mascolo lived at the dusk of the modern arch of the revolution, whether understood as eschatology or a conservation of the natural order of the species, as Saint-Just proposed against the Rousseaunian social contract and the Hobbesian mechanical Leviathan in exchange for authority. We have already crossed this threshold, and we are in the desert of the political, retreating on its shadow fallen into administration of fictive hegemonies. Hence, the question of an ethos of existence becomes even more pressing from Mascolo's thematic of friendship in order to refuse what he calls in "Sur ma propre bêtise et celle de quelues autres", a "borrowed existence in a comedy that feels as if we are being watch by God alone" (219). Indeed, as some have diagnosed with precision, the religion of our time is absolute immanence, the full disposition of the tooling of our means [4]. A cybernetic dreamworld, whose pathetic figure is the "influencer" (a few strata beneath the luminosity of the intellectual). This can only fix us into the stupidity of intelligence of the species: specialized intelligence, in other words, prisoners in the sea of nihilism. The intelligence of the species, on the contrary, is the cunning (methis) of the fox: a way out in spite of the swelling tides. But against the nihilism of a borrowed life of immanence (beatitude of the impersonal, and iconicity of things), Mascolo's thought insists stubbornly in friendship as the initiation in an uncharted path to reenter the world once again.
1. Dionys Mascolo. Autour d'un effort de mémoire: Sur une lettre de Robert Antelme (Maurice Nadeau, 1987).
2. Ibid., 50.
3. Dionys Mascolo. "Cuba premier territoire libre du socialisme", in A la recherche d'un communisme de pensée (fourbis, 1993).
4. Lundi Matin. "Éléments de descivilisation. Partie 4", Lundi Matin, 2019: https://lundi.am/Elements-de-decivilisation-Partie-4
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An epoch unmoved (V). by Gerardo Muñoz
The intrusion of appearance in the world posits the question of the unlived in every life. This taking place that appears in the world descends temporal finitude; and, more fundamentally, it posits the caducity of its unlived possibilities. In a recent book on the history of citrus in Italy, the author says in passing that blood oranges, being from the lowlands near the Etna, mixes a variation of flavors that ultimately make this particular orange expire sooner than others of its kind. Heterogeneity is a marker of caducity. The shimmering crust of this orange reveals that something like the mystery of what has not happened yet (and perhaps never will) comes to us in the sensorium, in the open of the ambient, and in the time of decay: "It gave us pause for thought. How long does it take for a lemon to completely rot?" [1]. This sense of the unlived in life was thematized by Hölderlin in his late drama The Death of Empedocles, a figure intimate to the Etna volcanic topoi: "In holy union each beloved clings to love, a love One thought was dead…To they are this! The ones we so long did without, the living; The goodly gods, declining with the star of life! Farewell!" [2]. We have yet to develop a theory of the encounter that opens the epoch. But the solicitation for an experience entails the seeking of an outside to reality, in which the unlived facilitates nearness to an escape route. As we know, Hölderlin thought of the fissure of unity as excess between outside and reality, in which the relation between object and subject, thinking and action, imagination and things come to a tragic diremption.
In this light, the actualization of the unlived is the vortex against the immobility of the epoch in which life is rendered actual in its becoming. But this requires specification; or at least a certain amendment of the pure aorgic immanence. We know that centuries before Hölderlin, Angelus Silesius provided a point of entry: "The Sun gives movement unto all, and makes the stars dance in the sky: if I still stand immovable, no part in the great whole have I" [3]. The mystical kenosis is ground cero to attunement of life. However, Silesius also seems to be suggesting that even under the dress of nature, movement is the condition for any instantiation with the abode. If glimpsed from the interior of the site of the natural world, pure immanence appears as the interrupted image without partition; but if described from the exteriority of the unlived, then world and life now meet in a kinetic extraneous divergence.
But what is the limit of an intensity? There are two ways of coming to terms with this problem: every process of intensification reaches its caducity whenever its violence is overcome by the seduction of possession in submitting to the absolutism of reality. On the other hand, every intensity is perturbed when it finds an obstruction in the formal orientation of the concept. Therefore, when the co-existence between the exogenic and ecstatic limits meet, the free playing of forms becomes flow (plynein). In other words, we cease to become immobile to deviate from the obstruction of the suspended wreck of every encounter.
Untimely, this invites that we reconsider the status of happiness. As a contemporary philosopher that I admire has insinuated it: perhaps happiness is the unthought notion in our tradition. In a certain way, the unthought and the unlived depart from the caesura of their own evasion. There is perhaps no need to reconstruct how "happiness" has been subordinated to designs proper to politics or commerce; or, as in the more classical tradition, the moral virtue for self-regulation and privation. Everything changes if we locate happiness in the site of the unlived, insofar as now the violence that is constituted of the separation between form and event in the texture of life. The immediacy of happiness is not being able to conquer something like a state of "blessed life" but being able to release the unlived in every succession of deaths that traverse a life [4].
But the unlived exits not only to de-constitute the vital determination, but also, and more fundamentally, to escape the seduction of the negative that assumes that loss and tragicity are irreparable limits. Rather, because there is something like an unlived there is happiness in the way that we constantly move within the available set of unlimited possibilities. The unlived initiates a physics that cuts absolute immanence in virtue of the genesis of style, since it is only in style where the overcoming of the unlived shelters the soul in the face of caducity. Indeed, it is in this invisible texture where the color of our mobility approaches asymptotic twirl between divinity and the world.
1. Ciaran Carson. Still Life. Winston: Wake Forest University Press, 2020. 16.
2. Friedrich Hölderlin. The Death of Empedocles. Trad. Farrell Krell. Albany: SUNY, 2008. 93.
3. Angelus Silesius. El peregrino querúbico. Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 2005.
4. Pacôme Thiellement. "Le Bonheur est un twist", 25 june 2017: www.pacomethiellement.com/corpus_texte.php?id=326 : "l y a deux lumières: il y a la lumière d'avant la nuit et il y a la lumière d'après. Il y a celle qui était là au début, l'aube radieuse du jour d'avant, et puis il y a celle qui a lutté contre les ténèbres, la lumière qui naît de cette lutte : l'aube scintillante du jour d'après. Il n'y a pas seulement deux lumières, il y a aussi deux joies : il y a la joie d'avant la peine et il y a celle d'après. La joie originelle, la joie innocente, primitive, cette joie est sublime, mais c'est juste un cadeau de la vie, du ciel, du soleil… La joie qui vient après la peine, c'est le cadeau que tu te fais à toi-même : c'est la façon dont tu transformes ta peine en joie, l'innocence que tu réussis à faire renaître des jours d'amertume et des nuits de bile noire. C'est le moment où tu commences à vivre, mais vivre vraiment, parce que tu commences à renaître de toutes tes morts successives. C'est le moment où tu t'approches de la divinité ou du monde".
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Three ideas for a discussion on «Éléments de décivilisation» by Gerardo Muñoz.
[These are some preliminary notes for an ongoing discussion on Lundi Matin's "Éléments de décivilisation'', a text that condenses a series of problems dealing with, although by no means, limited to infrapolitical reflection, the event, world, and the question of civilization in the wake of the ruin of hegemonic principles. This particular essay, more than content, raises the question of the status of the style of thought; and, in broad terms, I tend to link the notion of style to the constitution of an ethos. But let me offer three theses to open the discussion in very broad terms. What follows is the reconstruction of three brief points in a recent group meeting about this text.]
i. The priority of the event. For me at least it is very important to consider that Éléments de décivilisation'' moves away from at least two important precedents of a common intellectual orbit: messianism and the political theory of modern sovereignty. Of course, this is important for many reasons, but most it speaks to what I would call a strong opposition between thought and philosophy (favoring the first over the second). These two registers open important distinctions, such as, for instance, a displacement between historical temporality (messianism) to a notion of the taking place (the event or encounter) as exteriority. Whereas we were told that the "event is the enemy within Empire" (Gloss in Thesis 60 of Introduction à la guerre civile) , now we have a more through sketch about the way in which the form-of-life is not a category reducible to vitalism or the problem of the subject, but rather about the play between form and event. Here I think that Carlo Diano's Forma ed evento (1952) is crucial as a backdrop that is not just philosophically (Aristotelian formalization against Stoic predication), but rather a sound position of thinking in relation to what has been passed down as "civilization".
ii. Civilization as a principle. Now, the question of civilization raises to a problem of thought insofar as is neither an ontological problem nor an operative idea in the history of intellectual concepts. Civilization becomes the apparatus by which the total regimen of production in any given epoch is structured to establish an order. And here order is both authority and police. To put it in juridical terms: the first secures legitimacy while the second posits the flexible energy of legality and execution. This is the same problem in the relation to the world. In other words, civilization means enclosing, domesticating, and producing. By the same token, civilization is the operative domain by which nomōs, history and the subject come together in virtue of their separation. Is not this the very issue in the Greek polis in the wake of the discovery of measurement, isonomy, and the distribution of the goods in which hegemony replaces the basileus (Vernant)? It is one of the merits of the text not having understood this problem at the level of an "archeology of Western political thought" (Agamben), but rather as an evolving transhistorical process that binds the axis of domination and power to the axis of anthropology and domestication. Civilization, then, would name the total apparatus of hegemony under which politics falls as a problem of metaphysical structure (I have tried this problem in recent positions here). Whether there is an assumed anthropological anarchy at the level of substance, capable of "inversion" (Camatte), is something that must be explored in further detail.
iii. Happiness cuts absolute immanence. My last point. I would like to insist on something that Rodrigo Karmy mentioned recently: "Happiness is the unthought of the Weestern tradition". I agree with Karmy not on the basis that there has not been any reflection of "happiness" in the tradition, but rather that this reflection has either been a) subordinated to politics or economics (Jeffersonian "happiness" conditioned by commerce); or, as a moral virtue of self-regulation and privation. But it seems to me that "Elements" wants to offer something else in a very novel way. It is here where the question of violence must be inscribed. A curious displacement since violence has been thought in relation to beauty, but not happiness. The violence at the level of forms puts us in proximity with the event at the end of life itself. In this sense, the Pacôme Thiellement footnote is important:
"l y a deux lumières: il y a la lumière d'avant la nuit et il y a la lumière d'après. Il y a celle qui était là au début, l'aube radieuse du jour d'avant, et puis il y a celle qui a lutté contre les ténèbres, la lumière qui naît de cette lutte : l'aube scintillante du jour d'après. Il n'y a pas seulement deux lumières, il y a aussi deux joies : il y a la joie d'avant la peine et il y a celle d'après. La joie originelle, la joie innocente, primitive, cette joie est sublime, mais c'est juste un cadeau de la vie, du ciel, du soleil… La joie qui vient après la peine, c'est le cadeau que tu te fais à toi-même : c'est la façon dont tu transformes ta peine en joie, l'innocence que tu réussis à faire renaître des jours d'amertume et des nuits de bile noire. C'est le moment où tu commences à vivre, mais vivre vraiment, parce que tu commences à renaître de toutes tes morts successives. C'est le moment où tu t'approches de la divinité ou du monde". This position – which I think it is prevalent throughout the text – allows the opening of a series of articulations:
a) it is no longer happiness an effect on the subject, which has only grown in the Spectacle or consumption; that is happiness as an exception to life.
b) it is not that happiness is a theological state of 'blessed life', which would presuppose the transmutation of sin and thus overcoming of the non-subject. This position depends on conditions of mythic-history and theology.
c) It is rather that happiness is the way in which the singular gathers his possibilities in use without enclosing the other possibles. To live a life among the fragmentation of the use of our disposed potentialities is a way to violently cut the seduction of absolute immanence in which style is diluted. Play could name the variations of use. But there is a second order risk in what constitutes "play": a transfiguration of politic as civil war. The problem becomes how to think of 'play' (i. messianic abandonment, ii. political intensification – insurrection, or the separation between rhythm and voice, a poesis). I am interested in pushing for the third figure of play; a third figure in which the event and happiness impose a new division of souls, moving away from the separation from life.
Comment February 19, 2021 February 23, 2021 infrapoliticalreflections
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An epoch unmoved (IV). by Gerardo Muñoz
When I cut through things it means that I encounter a relief in the world. Now, a relief is something that takes us by surprise, although it is not hidden, as it is always there in the open. It is pure exteriority. Picture the cross-bedding tabular-planar layers on a bedding plane of a mountain. Thus, a relief is not a void nor is something that one accomplishes. On the contrary, it appears, and it transforms the world into a fragmentation of things. I would not be able to visualize a relief without first having an encounter. Hence the relief is a world that is freed from cartography: in this sense, it is a sub-world or ultra-world in its appearance. The relief takes place at ground level, but it is not grounded; it an event of the surface, but its ultimate determination is the sky or the landscape. I think that here the maximum distance with the metropolis becomes clear.
What is a metropolis at the end of the day? A possible definition: it is a total surface without reliefs. The prohibition of reliefs (an old monothetic superstition) confirms the aura of the epoch without movement. When all we have are extended surfaces, then anyone could be at anyplace any given time. The encounter with an irreducible thing is fulfilled by the relation with any object. An object that is really not an object but an icon. The consequence of this transformation of experiencing the world is immense; it entails nothing more than the destruction of the time of life compensated with relations with the surface.
How does a relief come to being? How does it appear in the open? Thinking about this in the past couple of days, it occurred to me that a moment in Pindar's "Isthmian 4" ode offered an image of relief; an imagen that I have not been able to escape from since I first read it a few years ago. Pindar says:
"during the struggle, but in cunning (mētis) he is a fox
whirling onto its back (anapitanmena) to check the eagle's swoop.
One must do everything to weaken the enemy" (Nem. 4.45-48).
The fox becomes a relief on the surface, and in doing so, it produces an exit from enmity. Unlike the wolf, the fox does not run away from the territory; it finds the "escape route" within the apparent. The term anapitanmena means 'stretching" across the surface. Its character as kerdō ("the wily one") guarantees its cunning movement from within its body. Indeed, according to Detienne & Vernant in their Cunning intelligence in Greek Culture and Society (1978), the "escape" – which Pindar's Greek used "olisthanein" – stages the image of the wrester's oiled body coming unloose from the opponent's grip. The fox's "via du uscita" takes place as relief that unstraps the reduction of a surface. Similarly, in Oppian's Treatise on hunting (211), the fox's wily character (dōlos) dwells in the threshold between dead and alive, becoming even "more alive than the living" (Detienne & Vernant, 35). However, it is not just a wrestling metaphor of physical force, as Detienne and Vernant beautifully explain, the fox's intelligence occurs thanks to the flexibility that dissolves the inside and the outside:
"Thanks to its energy and flexibility (hugrotēta) it is able to change its body (metaballein tò sōma) and turn it inside out (strephein) so that the interior becomes the exterior: the hook falls out. Aelian provides full confirmation on the subject of this maneuver: 'it unfolds its internal organs and turns them inside out, divesting itself of its body as if it were a shirt…The fox, being the embodiment of cunning can only behave as befits the nature of an intelligence full of wiles. If it turns back on itself it is because it is, itself, as it were, mētis, the power of reversal" (Detienne & Vernant, 37).
Not in the body but in the shirt, that is, in the garment. The fox embodies the relief that externalizes the surface with the kinetic energy of the inappropriable. Whoever has encountered a fox knows this from experience. The fox blends with the landscape, but it does not become one with it. This minimal apparent distance is the creation of the relief. Only now, after some years in Pennsylvania, I am able to make sense of an encounter with a wild fox in the backyard. There was no confrontation or desperate seeking out, but a moment of detention that seemed to cut against everything else happening around it lending itself to the encounter. The fox always waits for you even before you are near the encounter. What is this lapsus-time within time? Here again, perhaps a poet can give us a hand. In a poem surprisingly called "Metropoli" (1958) by Vittorio Sereni, we encounter a modern fox, or rather a fox in a modern setting. It is a more familiar fox than Pindar's wily creature, since we in no condition today to be able to understand the epic of Greek wrestling, or the practice of hunting, or the life of the polis. Sereni makes a more manageable sense of the figure possible. The important verses from the second stanza are:
« […] vecchia volpe
abbagliata di città, come muove al massacro:
la sua eleganza, qualità̀
prettamente animale tra le poche che l'uomo
può̀ prestare alle cose» (Sereni 2006, 190)
Like Pindar's fox, this old fox is dazzled because it "moves" towards the apparent. This mode of violence – "a massacro", for Sereni – is not necessarily depredatory. What follows is an explicit thematization of style: an elegance that has a quality that is scarce among humans. This elegance is not an abstract characterization of being a fox, but rather how the apparent, in the clothing, invests the animal in one life. But it seems to me that the enjambment for Sereni falls on the last verse: "può prestare alle cose". "It lends to things" – in other words, it finds itself at home with the things he finds.
Again, like in Pindar, he becomes a relief among things, because now things are separated and not just "ordered". The stylization of the fox in the modern voice of Sereni is the passage from the extreme physicality of the olisthanein to the "eleganza" granted by the dressing with the surface. There is no vanitas in this dressing-up; it is rather a contact of appearances that, in suspending the unlimited contours, it exposes the glitter of the relief. The relief turns out to be a garment.
*Imagen: The visit of a fox in the backyard, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2018. From my personal archive.
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Butler County woman, northern Ohio man diagnosed with Zika, officials say
Cases involve residents who made trips out of the country, Ohio Department of Health says
Updated: 12:00 AM EST Feb 13, 2016
Authorities in Ohio said two new cases of Zika virus have been found in residents returning from trips out of the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Ohio to four.Watch this storyThe Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is reporting the state's third and fourth cases of Zika virus were diagnosed in returning travelers – a 56-year-old Butler County woman returning from Guyana, and a 60-year-old Licking County man returning from Haiti.Ohio's first case of the virus was in a traveler returning from Haiti, a 30-year-old Cuyahoga County woman.Officials said a second case was confirmed in a 21-year-old Stark County man, also a traveler returning from Haiti. The cases are not linked, officials said.The Indiana State Department of Health announced the first Indiana case in a non-pregnant resident who had also recently traveled to Haiti. The state did not immediately say where the person lived but did say they did not require hospitalization.The Zika virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America. Zika is suspected of causing a devastating birth defect, babies born with abnormally small heads, and pregnant Americans are urged to avoid travel to affected areas.Zika virus is primarily transmitted through a mosquito bite."When we get into our mosquito season, people are going to have to be more vigilant about being careful that they don't have mosquitos attracted to their property or in their house, make sure there isn't any standing water around, make sure that the screens are good, protect yourself if you're going to out during the biting times of the evening and the morning and protect the children as well," Pat Burg, Butler County health department director, said.There is no indication that it can spread from person to person through casual contact."It can be transferred via blood contact or sex, and that's pretty much it," Dr. Joseph Kahn, emergency physician at Fort Hamilton Hospital, said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a U.S. case of Zika virus infection in a non-traveler after the person's sexual partner returned from an affected country and developed symptoms. Due to the possible association between Zika virus infections in pregnant women and certain birth defects, CDC recommends that pregnant women and women trying to get pregnant consider postponing travel to areas with Zika virus transmission."Given the number of travelers between Ohio and Zika virus-affected countries, it would not be a surprise to see more cases," said ODH Medical Director Dr. Mary DiOrio. "There is no vaccine available for Zika virus, so it's important for Ohioans traveling to affected areas to take steps to prevent mosquito bites."Of people infected with the Zika virus, a majority do not have any symptoms. When symptoms occur, they are often mild, lasting from several days to a week, and include fever, rash, joint and muscle pain, conjunctivitis (red eyes), and headache. Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon."It's relatively a mild illness, so we have only 20 percent of the people that actually have the virus even become ill at all," Burg said.The CDC has reported 52 travel-associated cases of Zika virus in 16 states and the District of Columbia prior to Ohio's new cases, an increase from 35 cases in 12 states since Tuesday.Planning is underway for a Zika virus tabletop exercise to ensure Ohio's preparedness at the local and state levels prior to the 2016 mosquito season, which runs from May to October, ODH said.
Authorities in Ohio said two new cases of Zika virus have been found in residents returning from trips out of the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Ohio to four.
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Ohio officials to discuss Zika virus preparedness, scenarios
2 Zika virus cases confirmed in Ohio, 1 in Indiana
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is reporting the state's third and fourth cases of Zika virus were diagnosed in returning travelers – a 56-year-old Butler County woman returning from Guyana, and a 60-year-old Licking County man returning from Haiti.
Ohio's first case of the virus was in a traveler returning from Haiti, a 30-year-old Cuyahoga County woman.
Officials said a second case was confirmed in a 21-year-old Stark County man, also a traveler returning from Haiti. The cases are not linked, officials said.
The Indiana State Department of Health announced the first Indiana case in a non-pregnant resident who had also recently traveled to Haiti. The state did not immediately say where the person lived but did say they did not require hospitalization.
The Zika virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America. Zika is suspected of causing a devastating birth defect, babies born with abnormally small heads, and pregnant Americans are urged to avoid travel to affected areas.
Zika virus is primarily transmitted through a mosquito bite.
"When we get into our mosquito season, people are going to have to be more vigilant about being careful that they don't have mosquitos attracted to their property or in their house, make sure there isn't any standing water around, make sure that the screens are good, protect yourself if you're going to out during the biting times of the evening and the morning and protect the children as well," Pat Burg, Butler County health department director, said.
There is no indication that it can spread from person to person through casual contact.
"It can be transferred via blood contact or sex, and that's pretty much it," Dr. Joseph Kahn, emergency physician at Fort Hamilton Hospital, said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a U.S. case of Zika virus infection in a non-traveler after the person's sexual partner returned from an affected country and developed symptoms. Due to the possible association between Zika virus infections in pregnant women and certain birth defects, CDC recommends that pregnant women and women trying to get pregnant consider postponing travel to areas with Zika virus transmission.
"Given the number of travelers between Ohio and Zika virus-affected countries, it would not be a surprise to see more cases," said ODH Medical Director Dr. Mary DiOrio. "There is no vaccine available for Zika virus, so it's important for Ohioans traveling to affected areas to take steps to prevent mosquito bites."
Of people infected with the Zika virus, a majority do not have any symptoms. When symptoms occur, they are often mild, lasting from several days to a week, and include fever, rash, joint and muscle pain, conjunctivitis (red eyes), and headache. Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon.
"It's relatively a mild illness, so we have only 20 percent of the people that actually have the virus even become ill at all," Burg said.
The CDC has reported 52 travel-associated cases of Zika virus in 16 states and the District of Columbia prior to Ohio's new cases, an increase from 35 cases in 12 states since Tuesday.
Planning is underway for a Zika virus tabletop exercise to ensure Ohio's preparedness at the local and state levels prior to the 2016 mosquito season, which runs from May to October, ODH said.


You clicked on the DS32 fixed head disk drive in the picture.
The DF32 Disk File and Control is a fixed head hard drive with a total capacity of 32K 12 bit words. It can have up to 3 DS32 Extender Disks slaved off of it for a total system capacity of 131,072 words. This was normally used with the earlier machines, the PDP-8, PDP-8/S, or PDP-8/I. All the units I have are made with the older R series logic which is a diode transistor logic (DTL) made with discrete diodes and transistors. The later units were made with the standard TTL IC M series logic for use with positive bus PDP-8/I's.
The DF32 was attached to the computer through the 3-cycle data break interface via 11 to 13 cables. The 3-cycle data break was a type of direct memory access (DMA). The processor wrote to various registers in the DF32 to setup the transfer then the unit transferred the data while the processor was able to do other things. The 3-cycles used were to increment the word count memory location in PDP-8 memory,fetch and increment the current address memory location, and then read/write the word from the peripheral to the memory location specified by the current address. When the word count reached zero word count overflow signal was generated to let the peripheral know that all words have been transferred. This method saved logic in the peripheral since the memory address and word count stored in the PDP-8 memory would take twelve cards to store in the peripheral.
The drive hardware did not organize the disk into fixed size sectors, each word on the disk was capable of being read or written independently with a maximum of 4096 words in one transfer.
Recording Method Non-Return to Zero Inhibit (NRZI).
Recording Media Nickel-cobalt plated aluminum disk 10"x1/4"
The DF32A/DS32A which operated off of 50 Hz power rotated slower so data transfer was 80 microseconds and average access time was 20 milliseconds. Since the heads land on the disk when the power is removed it was recommended to not power down the drive motor any more than absolutely necessary.
Recently (2012) I attempted to restore another DF32 that came with my straight 8. First step was to clean. See the straight 8 restoration for my cleaning methods. On the previous drive when I removing the platter to clean it the head/track alignment seemed to get a little off making recovery of the contents on drive difficult. For this one I tried cleaning the platter installed on this drive. I put alcohol pads between the heads and the platter and then rotated the platter and then pulled the pads out to clean the heads. The platter on the top had corrosion dots where the aluminum platter corroded and pushed up the plating. The bottom seemed to have some also since it pulled on the alcohol pads when the disk was turned. After a couple turns it seemed to knock loose most of the material that was pulling on the pads. I replaced the foam seal around the covers with weatherstripping from the hardware store. I hooked up the scope to the read amplifiers and spun up the drive. There was some noise from the platter damage but it didn't seem like anything really bad was happening so I continued. One of the W532's was bad so I swapped in another W532 until I can repair it. I did manage to capture most of the data using my scope as shown in the pictures and directory listing below. The disk platter has too much corrosion to be usable though. The disk contained an earlier version of Disk Monitor System than the paper tapes I have.
Nothing on the drive was worthwhile enough to spend more effort trying to recover the spots where the signal had dropouts. It may be possible to have the platter re-plated or a new one manufactured but I suspect the cost would be significant. I am using the drive with my DS32 emulator board for now.