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"Ever heard of Long Sunday? It's a group blog about... thinking?"

L. Spurious:

...Friendship - could this be the name of a relation to thought, to thinking? The name of a relation - and one, now, that lays claim, in some, to the whole of a life: to the same gestures, voice tones and silences, to a way of taking up space or not taking it up. This laying claim would be the presence of thought in the thinker: the way thought keeps a life, even as the thinker supposes that it is thought that must be kept safe.

Thinking of them again - not as friends, but as those who are friends of thought - what communicates itself to me is not the content of a thought - not this, or that idea, but the 'that there is' of thinking, and in another such as him, another such as her. Thought: in person. But there only as a mutliplicity of gestures, of tones and silences, as a way of moving or keeping still...

Comments

[Jodi]

What does it mean to take up or not to take up space to move or to keep still? Perhaps the group blog performs answers to these questions as each in a different mode is present or absent, writing or not writing, reading or not reading.

[cynic librarian]

proving dwm's point?

The leveling is not the action of an individual, but a play of reflection in the hand of an abstract power. Just as one can calculate the diagonal in a parallelogram of forces, so can one calculate the law for leveling. For the individual who levels several others, also includes him[her]self, and so on. While each individual egotistically seems to know what [s]he is doing, one must say of them all that they do not know what they are doing, for just as enthusiastic solidarity produces a surplus which is not that of any individual, so, too, is a surplus produced here. . . No age can stop the skepticism of leveling, and neither can this time, the present age: for at the moment it wishes to stop it, it will develop its law still further.

-- Kierkegaard, [VIII 93 f.; also The Present Age]

[Christoph]

Long Sunday: An autopoietic system?

After all: "Humans do not communicate. Communication communicates." (Luhmann)

What you can do is doubt it, but that doubting is part of the thinking that recursively orientates itself to the notion of a Long Sunday, rather than any thinking subject, so.... Anyway. Nice post.

[David Wilson McLeish]

I'm giddy for being included, and slightly embarrassed, because my "books read" meter is too low to engage. Two of my last three posts are about Justin Timberlake (and how I love him). But, to ponder your offering further: Do you mean that you're my friend? or that Long Sunday is a blog about friendship?

lol.

Keep it ethereal.

[Charles]

Christoph,

I'll have to think about it.

(thanks?)

[Nate]

I don't know the 30s are like but this question characterized much for me pre- mid 20s: "Wait - so, is that a dis, or not?" Reading DWM's post I felt younger again, but not in a good way.

[Christoph]

Still can't get over the "multiplicity of gestures, of tones", as Lars writes so beautifully. Maybe I just had too much Pinot Noir Chardy.

Anyway, I meant what I wrote - very nice post indeed.