tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post2754277473711356118..comments2020-08-01T22:28:50.016-06:00Comments on Proactive Progressive Populism: Me on Shaviro on Whitehead's eternal objectsEdward Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post-15435059573412038882012-07-10T21:45:19.533-06:002012-07-10T21:45:19.533-06:00Derrida's seminal essay Différance [1] he spea...Derrida's seminal essay Différance [1] he speaks of it as “this sameness that is not identical...as spacing/temporalizing” that is neither active nor passive but “rather indicates the middle voice” (278). It is also an assemblage, a “general system of all these related schemata” (280). Note that schemata[2] is defined as “an underlying organizational pattern or structure,” and with specific reference to Kant as “a concept, similar to a universal but limited to phenomenal knowledge, by which an object of knowledge or an idea of pure reason may be apprehended.” So here we have a patterned universal assemblage that is born of particular spatial-temporal instantiations expressing in the middle voice, much like our image schema(ta). As assemblage it “refer[s] to the whole complex of its meanings at once, for it is immediately and irreducibly multivalent” (283-4), like Balder's reading of Nancy's singular-plural.<br /><br />Also of note is how differance is like the virtual in that while it “makes the presentation of being present possible, it never presents itself as such” (281). The present is what is actual or manifest within differential relations between suobjects. And yet differance doesn't enter into these manifest relations, yet is not an essential or metphysical form, still being bound by the space-time of its particular instantiations.<br /><br />I found this sentence interesting in light of our discussion above on the eternal return and eternal objects: “It is out of this unfolding of the 'same' as differance that the sameness of differance and of repetition is presented in the eternal return” (292). Again I'm reminded of the old expression from the Pennsylvania coal-mining district[3] in which I was raised, same difference.<br /><br />1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/10269023/Derrida-Difference<br />2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/schemata?s=t&ld=1032<br />3. http://www.coalregion.com/Edward Bergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.com