Accretion in Planets/Accretion in Names & How to speak in(to) the sphere of planets (2)

All good stuff on names in: Lytle Shaw: The Poetics of Coterie + some additions.

John Searle - The uniqueness and immense pragmatic convenience of proper names in our language lie precisely in the fact that they enable us to refer publicly to objects without being forced to raise issues and come to agreement about what descriptive characteristics exactly constitute the identity of the object.

In kind of opposition to this Saul Kripke in Naming and necessity (Busts this out) - Our reference depends not just on what we think ourselves but on how the name reached one… it is by following such a history that one gets to the reference. Still their gradual accretion with different; contextual attributes produces a kind of phantom canon of reference inside O’Hara’s constructed world, a canon that both overlaps with and frequently undermines those would be public attribute attributes associated with better known proper names.

The Yolngu gather after sunset to await the rising of Venus (associated with the goddess of love) which they call Barnumbirr. As she approaches, in the early hours before dawn, she draws behind her a rope of light attached to the Earth, and along this rope, with the aid of a richly decorated "Morning Star Pole", the people are able to communicate with their dead.

The names are recalcitrant matter – designating identities from which we are held at a careful distance. To universilise them is therefore not adequate; instead they are strategic remainders that block our easy identification.

Myth produced through an intersocial matrix (or “hopefully” through an intersubjective / intercorporeal relation (which was introduced in post 1 on this topic)

Note for a poetics: Bodies of mass and culture operate within nested tracks

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Horizon Review

If anyone can point me in the way of anything interesting in issue 1 of Horizon Review, the free online magazine by Salt, please let me know. Not being glib; I had high hopes for this magazine, thinking perhaps Salt would loose the reins a little but it seems no.

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Commons 53-55

Bonney continues a golden run.

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Martin Dean's (£)m(£)e(£)m£)e(£) is now available to view on the Studio.

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Torriano Reading

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Accretion in Planets/Accretion in Names (1)

In astrophysics, the term accretion is used for at least two distinct processes. The first and most common is the growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter in anaccretion disc. Accretion discs are common around smaller stars or stellar remnants in a close binary, or black holes in the centers of spiralgalaxies. Some dynamics in the disc are necessary to allow orbiting gas to lose angular momentum and fall onto the central massive object. The second process is somewhat analogous to the one in atmospheric science. In the nebular theory, accretion refers to the collision and sticking of cooled microscopic dust and ice particles electrostatically, in protoplanetary discs and Gas giant protoplanet systems, eventually leading to planetesimals which gravitationally accrete more small particles and other planetesimals. Use of the term accretion disc for the protoplanetary disc thus leads to confusion over the planetary accretion process, although in many cases it may well be that both accretion processes are happening simultaneously

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How to speak in(to) the sphere of planets: 1

Self-temporalization through derepresentation [Ent-Gegenwartigung], so to speak (through recollection), has its analogue in my self-alienation [Ent-Fremdung] (empathy as a derepresentation of a higher level-derepresentation of my primal presence [Ur-prasenz] into a merely presentified [vergegenwartigte] primal presence). Thus, in me, "another I" achieves ontic validity as copresent [komprasent] with his own ways of being self-evidently verified, which are obviously quite different from those of "sense" perception."

The concepts of "derepresentation" and "self-alienation" both indicate the reciprocity involved in these acts of re-presentation: it is not only a question of bringing something "absent" into "presence" i.e., depriving something if its otherness. It also works the other way around: the primal presence is "decentered" when the ego positions itself in a presence other than its own. Theunissen designates this decentering an "alternation" (Veranderung), and distinguishes the "immanent alteration" of recollection from the "transcendent alteration" of empathy (Foot Note 1). Through these forms of re-presentation it is possible for me to free myself from the absolute now and here of original presentation, and place myself in a position which is not strictly speaking mine. Thus, I turn myself into something which I am not, and gain access to perspectives other than that of original presentation. This ability to transcend the perspective of the ego is a necessary prerequisite for the constitution of objectivity. [...] It is only through acts of empathic re-presentation that intersubjectivity is constituted, and, through its multiplicity of perspectives, a "nature" common to a plurality of subjects (Foot Note 2).  

Venus: The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of the Earth.

1. Empathy and recollection are positing forms of re-presentational consciousness i.e., they intend their objects as existing or as having existed, but not as accessible through acts of presentational consciousness. [...] The most basic feature that they have in common is the nested structure, which makes possible the appearing of a second flow or track, of consciousness inside the first. In the case of empathy the additional track is the flow of the alter ego, in the case of recollection it is a past section of the ego's own experience.
2. Daniel Birnbaum, The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenemenology, (New York: SternbergPress, 2008)

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Updates

Openned has now completed its move, save for the Anthology on the Openned Press, which will be uploaded within the next week. Thanks for your patience.

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Obama on Letterman 10/09/08

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