Happy Birthday, Ilya Prigogine!

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks.  Reminds me of a recent series of articles in
the local newspaper about Antarctica (the ultimate
whiteness, blankness, no?), speculations about its
future after global warming in Richard Calder's
Cythera, and problematizes my own periodic interest in
bagging everything here and going myself.  If only I
had something to do at an Antarctic Research Station
worth someone's money ...

But both the Bauman and the Schama are currently
buried somehwere at home, and had neither time nor
patience to mount much of an excavation.  Things
boxed, triple-shelved, any apparent organziation lost
in various bibliotectonic cataclysms.  Might be able
to dig them out of the library I'm posting from,
however.  In the meantime, I'm interested in how you
in particular articulate both to Mauritius in GR, as I
am no doubt not likely to do it quite the same way.   


--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>  "the typical modern practice, the substance of
> modern politics, modern  
>  intellect, modern life, is the effort to wipe out
> ambivalence: an effort to  
>  define exactly - and to suppress or to eliminate
> everything, which could not  
>  or did not want to be defined exactly. the modern
> practice is not about 
>  capturing foreign countries, but about the filling
> up of the empty spaces in 
>  the completa mappa mundi. it's the modern practice,
> not nature, that truly 
>  cannot tolerate blankness.
>  thus intolerance is the natural drift of modern
> practice. the construction of 
>  order limits inclusion and acceptance."
>  
>   --- zygmunt bauman: modernity and ambivalence
> [1991] ---
> 
>                            (re-translation from pp.
> 20f. of the german edition)
> 
> > >Dave Monroe schrieb:
> > >
> > > > Dutch settlers on Mauritius (again, why is
> this mentioned with some
> > > > prominence?)
> > >
> > >
> > >   well, the island of mauritius has a very
> interesting history, and 
> > >between the
> > >   late 16th and the late 17th century, the dutch
> were ruling this planet. 
> > >they
> > >   still call it their "golden age". you may
> check out simon schama's "the
> > >   embarrasment of riches" [1987]. & perhaps trp
> had already the south 
> > >african
> > >   episodes of m&d in mind while writing gr.
> right inside the heart of 
> > >modernity
> > >   dwells the extinction of the other. so another
> thing to check out might 
> > >be
> > >   zygmunt bauman's "modernity and the holocaust"
> [1989?]. take a look at 
> > >it, and
> > >   you'll realize why the dutch settlers on
> mauritius are mentioned with 
> > >some
> > >   prominence.
> > >
> > >kfl
> > >
> >
> >
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