Comments on: Blogosphere Kinships: Activity at Massthink http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/blogosphere-kinships-activity-at-massthink/ refracting theory: politics, cybernetics, philosophy Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:04:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: taylor27 http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/blogosphere-kinships-activity-at-massthink/#comment-224 taylor27 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:48:24 +0000 http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/blogosphere-kinships-activity-at-massthink/#comment-224 That actually makes a lot of sense! hahaha! I feel quite stupid for not understanding that with your latest post! I apologize for taking you literally. I must say I'm even more impressed and intrigued with your multiplicity! And yes, definitely an alliance. Both Joe and I took a bit of pride in your post, especially because both of us had already gained a respect for your work. Since I already had reason to discuss your blog, when I saw your post I was greatly motivated to write in response. I definitely feel that we share a readership in some way, and to be included among your calibre is something that delights me. That actually makes a lot of sense! hahaha! I feel quite stupid for not understanding that with your latest post! I apologize for taking you literally. I must say I’m even more impressed and intrigued with your multiplicity! And yes, definitely an alliance. Both Joe and I took a bit of pride in your post, especially because both of us had already gained a respect for your work. Since I already had reason to discuss your blog, when I saw your post I was greatly motivated to write in response. I definitely feel that we share a readership in some way, and to be included among your calibre is something that delights me.

]]> By: Ryan/Aless http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/blogosphere-kinships-activity-at-massthink/#comment-221 Ryan/Aless Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:53:54 +0000 http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/blogosphere-kinships-activity-at-massthink/#comment-221 This is much too kind, Taylor: thank you. Yes, I do think we have a certain kinship (but alliance, not filiation, no?): our research interests, and perhaps more strikingly (as you also mention): our styles of expression, the way we (as Deleuze would say) dramatize Philosophy. I'd like to make a minor clarification, however (and this is no fault of your own; it is due more perhaps to the vagueness of my exposition, the nature of dramatization, or perhaps communication itself . . .): Ryan/Aless inhabit one body. So in a way, s/he can say (much like Deleuze and Guattari at the beginning of ATP): I am one--but that is already many. But you were completely right to notice the stark difference in styles. If in the case of Joe and you, it is manifested in two different "persons," in my/our case, (unfortunately!) it is manifest in my/our very own "person." Perhaps brought about by history, those passive syntheses of time: I/we started out as a Business major, doing a lot of Math, then got an undergraduate degree in Economics, am/are now a student of Comparative Lit, but doing work mostly on Continental Philosophy . . . We definitely (all of us: you and Joe and Ryan and Aless) should meet someday. Let me know if any of you are traveling sometime to Europe, and I'll keep you posted as to when I'll get back to the US. This is much too kind, Taylor: thank you. Yes, I do think we have a certain kinship (but alliance, not filiation, no?): our research interests, and perhaps more strikingly (as you also mention): our styles of expression, the way we (as Deleuze would say) dramatize Philosophy.

I’d like to make a minor clarification, however (and this is no fault of your own; it is due more perhaps to the vagueness of my exposition, the nature of dramatization, or perhaps communication itself . . .): Ryan/Aless inhabit one body. So in a way, s/he can say (much like Deleuze and Guattari at the beginning of ATP): I am one–but that is already many.

But you were completely right to notice the stark difference in styles. If in the case of Joe and you, it is manifested in two different “persons,” in my/our case, (unfortunately!) it is manifest in my/our very own “person.” Perhaps brought about by history, those passive syntheses of time: I/we started out as a Business major, doing a lot of Math, then got an undergraduate degree in Economics, am/are now a student of Comparative Lit, but doing work mostly on Continental Philosophy . . .

We definitely (all of us: you and Joe and Ryan and Aless) should meet someday. Let me know if any of you are traveling sometime to Europe, and I’ll keep you posted as to when I’ll get back to the US.

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