V-2nd C4 Allografts

[Ian Livingston]

Zizek on the "love instinct", which, according to Fraud is
complementary to the "death instinct":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7qdowoemo

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> "This mineral period"
>>
>> I.e., of "believing himself no more animate than ..." ...
>
> See Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton, 1959, 1961):
>
> "Let us suppose, then, that all the organic instincts are
> conservative, are acquired historically and tend towards the
> restoration of an earlier state of things.... [I]t must be an old
> state of things, an initial state from which the living entity has at
> one time or other departed and to which it is striving to return by
> the circuitous paths along which its development leads. If we are to
> take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything living dies
> for internal reasons--becomes inorganic once again--then we shall be
> compelled to say that 'the aim of all life is death' and looking
> backwards, that 'inanimate things existed before living ones'" (45-6).
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "His name was Halidom and he favored allografts ..." (V., Ch. 4, p. 101)
>>
>>
>> AEF
>>
>> American Expeditionary Forces
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
>>
>>
>> Halidom
>>
>> "The word signifies something held sacred, perhaps referring to the
>> young doctor's 'ideas of his own.'"
>>
>> --Grant, p. 63
>>
>>
>> allografts
>>
>> "The more accurate word would be 'xenograft.'  An allograft is a graft
>> from a donor of the same species of the recipient, which in fact is
>> what Schoenmaker offers."
>>
>> --Grant, p. 63
>>
>> http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=JZyY6bmfaJ0C
>>
>>
>> "the introduction of inert substances"
>>
>> Cf. ...
>>
>> "bodily incorporating little bits of inert matter" (V., Epilogue, Sec.
>> III, p. 542)
>>
>>
>> "ivory ... silver ... paraffin and celluloid"
>>
>> Colonialism, capitalism, plastics, cinema ...
>>
>>
>> "This mineral period"
>>
>> I.e., of "believing himself no more animate than ..." ...
>>
>>
>> "alignment with the inanimate"
>>
>> IS this necessarily "the mark of a Bad Guy"?  Hm ...
>>
>>
>> "Others ... carried on wars ... condemned his patients ..."
>>
>> It's not so much "the culture's failure to heal its wounded" (Grant,
>> p. 63; see previous note) as "the culture's" failure NOT to wound its
>> own (and others) ...
>>
>>
>> "a conservative laziness"
>>
>> Cf. ...
>>
>> "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it unfurl."
>> (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)
>>
>>
>> From Kathleen Fitzpatrick, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American
>> Novel in the Age of Television (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2006),
>> Ch. 2, "Machine," pp. 58-97:
>>
>> "This melding of the human and the inanimate .... has two practical
>> effects.  The first is the destruction of the human element of the
>> cyborg body: Godolphin's face is ravaged by a 'foreign-body reaction'
>> that causes his immune system to attack the 'inert substances'
>> implanted in his flesh.  The second ... is the rise of modern cosmetic
>> surgery.  Schoenmaker ('beauty maker') ... dedicated to 'prevent[ing]
>> a takeover of the profession by its unnatural and traitorous Halidoms'
>> ... imagine he would promote the natural, the human.  'If alignment
>> with the inanimate is the mark of a Bad Guy,' the reader is told,
>> 'Schoenmaker at least made a sympathetic beginning' [V., Ch. 4, p.
>> 103].
>>   "This beginning does not last, however, as the technologies of
>> plastic surgery, the subordination of the human form to a kind of
>> fleshy engineering, lead Schoenmaker further and further down the road
>> toward the inanimate.  He is ultimately inspire not to fight such
>> implantations as Godolphin suffered but to find ways of ensuringtheir
>> acceptance by the body, of subduing the body's responses to such
>> technological infiltrations....  he has suffered a clear
>> 'deterioration of purpose; a decay' [V., Ch. 4, p. 104] that
>> unmistakably connects him to the Whole Sick Crew's decadent
>> alienation." (pp. 82-3)
>>
>> http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/
>> http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/2006/04/chapter-2/
>> http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/11/the-anxiety-of-obsolescence
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=pdkDXNbPPuUC
>>
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