notations / fourth lecture / May 7th / 2018

 

"Yes! It is the sheer pleasure of pleasure,
an unending desire for it:
the pleasure in the text /
in the performance of the story /
in the event
that drives me to sign it; to put my name under everything,
to inscribe in every difference the desire of my movement!

This is the
text / story / event
that bears my / your /
our name!"

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follow the traces
follow the traces

1
follow the traces
of what is between the one and the other thing
–
(every thing is made of
the in-between between the
points / perforations / coordinates
(of the perforated nothingness))
–
which are measured
by the movement from
one coordinate to the other
by which the volume involuntarily occurs
and will be visible
and valid as a manifested movement
for a longer or shorter period of time

identify the coordinates
identify the coordinates

2
our first task is
to identify the coordinates
–
the points / perforations / coordinates
are always given
–
we have to make them visible
–
making the coordinates visible
is identical with
showing the basis of the grammatical structure
and the associated rules of what we call
truth
identical with the unmovable positions of
the identified coordinates /
–
(by the way:
a truth without any sense)

connect the coordinates
connect the coordinates

3
our second task is
to connect the coordinates
according the grammatical rules
/ by straight lines
/ technical lines
without any hint to a movement
but only by construction finite row
of densely crowded points
–
so we can say
also the line claims truth
(because every point of the row
is doubtless needed
to connect the coordinates)

perforation of the invisible
perforation of the invisible

4
you remember
/ what we said:
the total black or the total white
(of our sheet
or the sky at night)
is an inseparable connection
of uncountable points
seated unimaginable closely
and that in some way every visible point is
a perforation of the invisible
/ inseparable totality
(of the nothingness in black/white)

write to perforate

write to perforate

write to define the volume

write to define the volume

knowledge of the grammatical structure
knowledge of the grammatical structure

5
already for the first task
we need
the knowledge of the common grammatical structure
i.e. the rules of the universal valid grammar
(in the meaning of the Greek:
[τέχνη] γραμματική [technē] grammatikē
„[art/technique] of writing“)
in order to identify the coordinates

movements of the human body
movements of the human body

6
„art/technique of writing“
is to be understood
as the technique of identifying
and combining the coordinates / perforations
according the possible
movements of the human body
in order to create a notation
(a score) which will produce sense:
the text of our existence
written and told by the movements
–
from one body to another
(from the body /
the bodies with the things / within the space)

process of producing sense
process of producing sense

7
in the
/ process of producing sense
/ the ext of our existence
writing and reading take place in one
–
the sense which will be produced within this
process is not meant to unveil
a pre-given meaning
by correctly defined coordinates
(this will produce a common truth but
neither an individual nor
a collectively existential sense!)

the text of our existence
the text of our existence
co-relations between the thing / the subject and the observer
co-relations between the thing / the subject and the observer

8
the process starts with the already defined
co-relations between the thing / the subject and the observer
(you, me, we)
the co-relations can only be realized
by the determination of the coordinates /
–
for example the co-relation
between a chair and the one who wants to sit down /
the coordinates of the grammatical structure
of sit-down fixed by the movement of the body
–
for example the co-relation
between a pencil, a sheet
and the one who wants to draw or write /
–
the coordinates of the grammatical structure of
drawing or writing
are fixed by the movement of the body

defining individual rules
defining individual rules

9
the first task has to be performed
by a precise observation and documentation
of what we have observed
(the co-relations between the thing
/ the subject
/ and the observer)
–
the second task has to be performed by
defining individual rules
of combining the observed coordinates
according the universally valid grammar

first the field of grammar
first the field of grammar

10
the observation will take place on two fields / levels:
/ first the field of grammar / structure / formal coordinates
/ second the field of pre-given intentions / meanings / history
–
the pre-given (or strived) intentions are inscribed
in the mode of meaning and history
into the things / the subject as well as into the one
who observes

second the field of pre-given intentions
second the field of pre-given intentions
interact with the manifested elements
interact with the manifested elements

11
so by fulfilling the second task
(defining individual rules
of combining the observed coordinates)
the intentions / meanings / historical purposes
will inevitable be erased
on the surface of the things and the subjects
/ will be subdued a de-denotation or de-connotation /
–
but in the background of our perception
they are still active as a set of references
/ now not decisive anymore
but to be seen as possible parts of the text
which we will write
/ design by following only the movements
between the things
by our ability to
interact with the manifested elements
(coordinates: shapes: volumes)

move ourselves in relation to
move ourselves in relation to

12
the rule of interacting
with the manifested elements (coordinates: shapes: volumes)
which is named „method“
we have to define according our personal way to
move ourselves in relation to
the universal valid grammar

 
Tomaso Carnetto