"life is like a detective story in which you try and solve the mystery of your own absence. Ironically you solve the case by giving up the
search and identifying with the mystery itself." (written on a toilet door)
--- On Fri, 19/2/10, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] translation question
> To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Received: Friday, 19 February, 2010, 8:14 PM
> This must be the perfect crime Jean
> Baudrillard the hunchback of the
> Notre Reclame predicted!
>
> Op 19-2-2010 0:16, Kevin Turner schreef:
> > it was dem femonologist wot done it...govnor...
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: lord@xxxxxxx
> >> Sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:06:19 -0800
> >> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] translation question
> >>
> >> (Just some humor, hopefully.)
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:52 -0600, Chetan Vemuri
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Foucault's Missing Ontology"
> >>>
> >> That would also be a good title for a mystery
> >> novel.
> >>
> >> "He'd had it, his ontology, when he entered the
> room.
> >> Of that much Foucault was certain. He
> clearly recalled
> >> the tug of its weight in his pocket. Even
> now how could
> >> still feel the smooth coolness of its polished
> surfaces
> >> against his fingertips when he had slipped
> imperceptibly into
> >> the party, enveloped in words, borne way beyond
> all
> >> possible beginnings.
> >>
> >> He surmised that one of the guests at the party
> at
> >> taken it, for surely, it would not casually fall
> out
> >> of his pocket. But who? And
> why?
> >>
> >> Was it Rabinow with his neurotic tendency to
> gather
> >> up souvenirs? Chompsky, who he suspected of
> still
> >> smoldering with professional indignation after
> their
> >> last encounter? Neither seemed likely
> for he knew
> >> both to be honorable men. He struggled to
> put these
> >> paranoid notions out of his head. 'No,' he
> thought
> >> to himself, 'I can not discover the true cause of
> my
> >> Ontology's disappearance by examining the matter
> >> purely within the historically contingent logic of
> the
> >> discourse of our petty
> squabbles. I must somehow step
> >> outside all of that and rid myself of a whole mass
> of notions,
> >> each of which, in its own way, diversifies the
> theme of
> >> theme of continuity.' He tried to
> concentrate on
> >> the discontinuity, the rupture that the loss of
> his Ontology
> >> represented.
> >>
> >> Later, Foucault would consult with his editor over
> the
> >> loss. He would lament 'Without my Ontology,
> how can
> >> I go to the police? Without my Ontology, I
> won't
> >> even be able to say, in any meaningful way, that
> >> it even ever existed!' And he would slam the
> flat of his
> >> palm against the table.
> >>
> >> His editor would lean back in his chair and stare
> for
> >> a moment at Foucault. He would
> slowly let out a long
> >> breath before inhaling and finally beginning to
> speak.
> >> 'Perhaps you should pursue that thought.'"
> >>
> >> -t
> >>
> >>
>
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search and identifying with the mystery itself." (written on a toilet door)
--- On Fri, 19/2/10, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] translation question
> To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Received: Friday, 19 February, 2010, 8:14 PM
> This must be the perfect crime Jean
> Baudrillard the hunchback of the
> Notre Reclame predicted!
>
> Op 19-2-2010 0:16, Kevin Turner schreef:
> > it was dem femonologist wot done it...govnor...
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: lord@xxxxxxx
> >> Sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:06:19 -0800
> >> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] translation question
> >>
> >> (Just some humor, hopefully.)
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:52 -0600, Chetan Vemuri
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Foucault's Missing Ontology"
> >>>
> >> That would also be a good title for a mystery
> >> novel.
> >>
> >> "He'd had it, his ontology, when he entered the
> room.
> >> Of that much Foucault was certain. He
> clearly recalled
> >> the tug of its weight in his pocket. Even
> now how could
> >> still feel the smooth coolness of its polished
> surfaces
> >> against his fingertips when he had slipped
> imperceptibly into
> >> the party, enveloped in words, borne way beyond
> all
> >> possible beginnings.
> >>
> >> He surmised that one of the guests at the party
> at
> >> taken it, for surely, it would not casually fall
> out
> >> of his pocket. But who? And
> why?
> >>
> >> Was it Rabinow with his neurotic tendency to
> gather
> >> up souvenirs? Chompsky, who he suspected of
> still
> >> smoldering with professional indignation after
> their
> >> last encounter? Neither seemed likely
> for he knew
> >> both to be honorable men. He struggled to
> put these
> >> paranoid notions out of his head. 'No,' he
> thought
> >> to himself, 'I can not discover the true cause of
> my
> >> Ontology's disappearance by examining the matter
> >> purely within the historically contingent logic of
> the
> >> discourse of our petty
> squabbles. I must somehow step
> >> outside all of that and rid myself of a whole mass
> of notions,
> >> each of which, in its own way, diversifies the
> theme of
> >> theme of continuity.' He tried to
> concentrate on
> >> the discontinuity, the rupture that the loss of
> his Ontology
> >> represented.
> >>
> >> Later, Foucault would consult with his editor over
> the
> >> loss. He would lament 'Without my Ontology,
> how can
> >> I go to the police? Without my Ontology, I
> won't
> >> even be able to say, in any meaningful way, that
> >> it even ever existed!' And he would slam the
> flat of his
> >> palm against the table.
> >>
> >> His editor would lean back in his chair and stare
> for
> >> a moment at Foucault. He would
> slowly let out a long
> >> breath before inhaling and finally beginning to
> speak.
> >> 'Perhaps you should pursue that thought.'"
> >>
> >> -t
> >>
> >>
>
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