How can everything freeze in place?
I'm looking a few lines up from the bottom of page seven. I thought I was getting things and then they throw this on the table: everything stops dead for a moment, everything freezes in place. To me, this seems inconsistent with the preceding ideas and the subsequent ideas -- particularly in light of statements like the one about the binary series being linear in every direction. Furthermore, I don't see how this (everything... place) can be the same as the interruption in a flow. The only way I'm seeing that this might fit is to act as an example of the point that there's nothing that doesn't fit. Or something like that. Anyone, please advise. Thanks. --Jeff
posted by curiosity1 @ 8:56 AM
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I may not get this exactly like I want to...
There is a moment in any code, when analyzing it from a optimization standpoint, it is finished. This finishing is the "stop dead" or "freeze." However, it does not enter a phase of stasis, because there is ALWAYS hierarchy of forces and pressures it is responding to (and of which, it is ultimately a product). Therefore, it begins a process of reproducing itself.
The abstract part is that this is happening at every moment, always.
I think you should look into cell reproduction for a good analogy.
Also check out Morphogenesis.
see you later,
josh
one more thing:
You may want to consider what you know about digital and analog processes. Life, it seems, is a perplexing combination of both, simultaneously.
Alright, I think I get it. Perhaps I was thrown off by the word "everything" because it made me think of the body without organs in its entirety. Um, or is that what they meant by "everything"?
Yes, this happens at the level of the body without organs as well.
There is an attraction of machines; they are coupled; there is a flow; desire is the immanent principle; things are produced. However, with the "freezing" or "finishing" there is an associated level of anti-production that can be traced outward to identities and social machines (the molar), and from the molar to the molecular. This is a vital part of the attraction and repulsion that creates first the paranoic machine, then the miraculating machine, and finally the celebate machine to organize it all. (much more to be said about this tonight).
This is all under my label of "I think," if anybody thinks otherwise then please let me know.
I think it would instructive here to build upon the ideas presented by Bataille in two essays, "The Solar Anus" and "The Notion of Expenditure" The moment of that freezing is aptly put by dezdelsur and josh (even though I would disagree with the hierarchy comment). The main point being that as you move from one configuration of a machine to another (not through exhaustion but by recombination) you necessarily have to arrest the flow to change direction i.e. inertia or entropy! In another format, this is the counter-intuitive process of potlatch as descried in the notion of expenditure -- you end up getting more by sacrificing all!
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