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reprocessing what comes before is a fun game--necessary too because through it you create your own contexts.
meta-discussions are important in generating orientation, but if philo is a doing, it makes sense to start doing it explicitly and not substitute meta-discussions for it. if it is a way of thinking about and doing writing, then work on that.
if it is a way of thinking or being-in-the-world, work on that.
control and/or precision: this is what/these are what enable you to play this game. these are not things, they are not purchasable, you just have to put in the time and the work so that you can take over the notions of control and precision for yourself and make them operative for you. they aren't criteria imposed from the outside--if you want to make stuff, you have to take them over for yourself. precision is a mode of instituting and to the extent that it's also a notion that we can refer to is also instituted.
internet forums are little tests of your control. if you can make posts that say something, you are working on control. compression comes with the terrain. compression is neither good nor bad--it is a constraint. that's all.
personally, i think that without recursive activities, we are all slaves to what is. i have never understood the american-style contempt for the activity--it's almost like folk have decided that to free yourself and to be subordinated to what is are the same.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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