tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post6717805338648688891..comments2024-03-25T08:59:38.714-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Distributed Mind and ObjectsTimothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-3976589285773875902012-06-05T23:10:57.862-05:002012-06-05T23:10:57.862-05:00It would be difficult to say something ontological...It would be difficult to say something ontologically constructive (or even want to) in the face of post-structural consciousness and bleak existentialism, but there is a brand of "ana-theological" (cf. Kearney on 'anatheism' and Altizer on 'death-of-god theology') "positive existentialism" out there that promises an axiology (and, I daresay, a post-ecological egology or vice versa… a 'post-egological ecology' perhaps?) and generally a way out of the critiques of the information age: specifically, I project, by transfiguring George Spencer-Brown's own Sunyatological, Nietzschean interpretation of his Laws of Form, transforming it into a Poetics of the Will, the likes of which Riceour would have brought to us through his hermeneutic phenomenology of the Philosophy of the Will (The Volutary and the Involuntary, Volume 1, Freedom and Nature, Volume Two, Fallible Man, Symbolism of Evil, an unwritten work on criminology and Jaspersian psychopathology, and the unwritten Volume Three, the Poetics of the Will). <br /><br />Such is my view, and from here I propose to invert the problems of the use of the word "symbol" in the sense of the interpreters of Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form (the "symbolic logic" which characterizes the cybernetics of the information age) and Ricoeur's use of "symbol" as a Jaspersian "cipher" or enigma. Immanent to every problem is the solution, and through a 'ciphernetics' and worship of 'Lux Cipher', if I may, I propose to found this reading of the laws and Lawgick of creation outlined in George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form and its commentarial tradition (Lilly, Kauffman, Bricken, Shoup, Varela, von Foerster, and second-order cybernetics) through a novel creation of the productive imagination, a hermeneutic speculum forged by Ricoeur in his quest for the Poetics of the Will, applied to the act of drawing the first distinction, and its identity as pure self-reference (implicit in Laws of Form, redundantly reified by Varela), as an event of the "crossing" of itself, and its response to the enigma of the kerygma (the Biblical "calling") through a Diabolic Lawgick, an axiology and ultimately, the very Holy Dible (the whole Dibla Triptycha: the Holy Dible, Diblenetics, and Diabolic Lawgick). -Randy Dible, L.O.L., Dible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18032440685082594207noreply@blogger.com