The asymptotic “aim of increasing financial capital (Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi: here)”?
“The goal of the capitalist isn’t to accumulate capital but to accumulate capital in order that he may feel inoculated against ontological insecurity and existential vulnerability.” Arran James (here)
“immortality, or an effective illusion of immortality” Arran James (here)
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All of this follows an oneiric logic of the Name; the Hellenic obsession with nominal glory, or glorious nominalisations, as it were. It’s a perpetually repetitive mechanics of mnemonic recognition, technologised; merging with that which formerly memorialised, inscribing the ephemerality of anthropic bios onto the enduring lithic media of monument; a monu(mentality) where nominal sign & its medium are unified in the enduring ecstasy of lithic legend – the spectral stone*, of the West.
*3D screen consciousness
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: algorithms of immortality
Note (“algorithms of immortality”27-09-2011)
“algorithms of immortality
Eurocentric obsession with delimited objectivities, suppression of ambiguity, of the unmanipulable?
Greek & Eurocentric obsession with names
the identifiable, identities susceptible to perpetual recall by the mechanised algorithms of enduring techno-immortality device, the regime of such an arrangement
nostalgic desire to conform to ancient mechanisms of salvation?”
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: On the Naming thing, & the Oneiric
The Hellenic ‘naming perspective’ occurred to me in the early 1990s. There was a conjunction of ideas; Saul Kripke’s, “Naming & Necessity”, suggested the conjunction of the two concepts in its title; Cioran’s “To bear a name, is to claim an exact mode of collapse” was in there, linking the two concepts more explicitly. My notion of ‘Oneiric economy’ was there, too, as well as others.
Not sure if I’d already read Sol Yurick’s virtuosic “Metatron”, wherein, he pretty much does everything, in one way or another, that was occurring in the intuition I was having through the conjunction of concepts mentioned. But then, in the 1980s, I wrote: “We all live in Aristotle’s mind,” which kind of encapsulates one of the logics at play. Sol Yurick, of course, wrote his stuff back in the early 1980s, & he’s the only theorist I can think of, who has the powers of ‘idea compression’, as it were; of analogy, extrapolation, & metaphoric leaping, all without losing critical intuition or precision; & sheer speed (best read fast); of the better SF writers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazer_%28Rainbow_song%29
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Meillassoux as Symptom?
Meillassoux’s diatribe against so called “correlationism”, is a symptom of the Occidental desperation to fixate itself as a determinate, perpetually repeatable, sign. Hence, the need to locate the ‘Real’ as absolute other, the Occident as exception to this ‘Real’ & its own cyclical modes.
Meillassoux’s characterises his ‘Absolute’ as not merely indifferent, but in terms of his own ‘realist hysteria’. It’s the purchasing of understanding; through the logic of sado-masochistic self-sacrifice, hence the need for ‘Universalism’, to offload that sacrifice onto ‘universally appropriated’, empirical Others; & through harsh disciplines of ‘working & tested truth’; all of it is configured by historical trauma, of which, it is the configured, dogmatic expression.
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Addenda 1 – Rainbow: Stargazer
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow: Stargazer (Legendado PT-BR) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsfugB8LPQ
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Addenda 1a – Lyrics
Rainbow – Stargazer Lyrics
High noon, oh I’d sell my soul for water
Nine years worth of breakin’ my back
There’s no sun in the shadow of the wizard
See how he glides, why he’s lighter than air
Oh I see his face!
Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
I believe, yes, I believe
In the heat and the rain
With whips and chains
To see him fly
So many die
We build a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
Just to see him fly
But don’t know why
Now where do we go?
Hot wind, moving fast across the desert
We feel that our time has arrived
The world spins, while we put his dream together
A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky
Oh I see his face!
Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, far?
When do we leave?
Hey, I believe, I believe
In the heat and the rain
With whips and chains
Just to see him fly
Too many die
We build a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
To see him fly
But we don’t know why
Ooh, now where do we go
All eyes see the figure of the wizard
As he climbs to the top of the world
No sound, as he falls instead of rising
Time standing still, then there’s blood on the sand
Oh I see his face!
Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed
In heat and rain
With whips and chains
To see him fly
So many died
We built a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
To see him fly
But why
In all the rain
With all the chains
Did so many die
Just to see him fly
Look at my flesh and bone
Now, look, look, look, look,
Look at his tower of stone
I see a rainbow rising
Look there, on the horizon
And I’m coming home, I’m coming home, I’m coming home
Time is standing still
He gave back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Going home
I’m going home
My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
A place I’ve known
But it’s not home, ooh
Take me back
He gave me back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Going home
I’m going home
My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
The place I’ve known
But it’s not home ooh
Take me back, he gave me back my will
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Going home, I’m going home
My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
The place I’ve known
But it’s not home, ooh
Take me back, take me back
Back to my home oh oh ooh
Time standing still
Songwriters: WOLF, LENNY / STAG, DANNY / FRANK, JOHN BURT / STEIER, RICK J.
Stargazer lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Addenda 1b Meanings
“The song has been called a “morality tale”,[6] and its lyrics are written from the standpoint of a “slave in Egyptian times”, according to lyricist Ronnie James Dio. They relate the story of the Wizard, an astronomer who becomes “obsessed with the idea of flying” and enslaves a vast army of people to build him a tower from which he can take off and fly.[4] The people hope for the day when their misery comes to an end, building the tower in harsh conditions (“In the heat and rain, with whips and chains; / to see him fly, so many died”). In the end, the wizard climbs to the top of the tower but, instead of flying, falls down and dies: “no sound as he falls instead of rising. / Time standing still, then there’s blood on the sand”. The next song, “A Light in the Black”, continues the story of the people who have lost all purpose after the Wizard’s death “until they see the Light in the Dark”, according to Dio.[4]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazer_%28Rainbow_song%29#Description
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Addenda 1c – Discussions
Good discussion of the song, here, http://lyraka.com/ourfatherofmetal/rainbowsstargazer.htm .
Lays out the mass psychology of ‘belief’; the Wagnerian (arguably fascist or proto-Nazi) techniques of “enchantment”, for transitioning into the Oneiric; in short, the mass hallucinatory construction of the Cult of the Real.
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Asymptotic Aim of the Name: Addenda 2 – Rainbow – Lost In Hollywood
This song’s title evokes being lost in the Oneiric TechnoSensorium.
Rainbow – Lost In Hollywood – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVqpauiq8E
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Arguably, better guitar solo on this version. Malmsteen does his thing.
Alcatrazz アルカトラス – Lost In Hollywood [Live in Tokyo, 1984] – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=870H3mggCdw