Back to the past....riffing on THE PRESERVED

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> My thinking, really, is not so much that the unconscious itself is
> stained, as it is everything--good and bad--of which we are not
> conscious. What we can call "stained" is how we approach that ocean of
> potential.

Sounds like good ole' entropy, if you ask me.

> I am thinking, I suppose, of something like karma--an
> impetus that predisposes us to consciously interpret the new according
> to a given perspective.

Might be more like a feedback loop, a servo to avoid bad shit.

> You might say that we are paradigm-driven
> where it comes to interpreting experience, "knowledge," whatever.
> Zizek a couple of years ago picked up on an impetus Hitchcock and P
> kicked into action at the end of the 50s, beginning of the 60s. The
> notion of parallax as a psychological model of interpretation sort of
> knocks the kickstand out from under the parked cycle of pomo, makes it
> necessary to move or fall down. I haven't had my Sunday morning tea
> yet. Starting to blather. But you get my point? It is not the
> unconscious that was Preserved, but the interpretive framework the
> conscious permits itself.

You mean like Crocker Fenway's "being in place" riff? "We've always  
owned to land, part of your income, part of your souls—now get out of  
here before I sic the dogs on you"?

Really like:

> The notion of parallax as a psychological model of interpretation  
> sort of
> knocks the kickstand out from under the parked cycle of pomo, makes it
> necessary to move or fall down.

Don't forget the ascent of Rashômon around the same time as Hitchcock  
and P.

> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>> so, I suggest, maybe, very tentatively, in P's view of history it  
>>> got
>>> perverted by a few, but spread like a stain.........
>>
>> Sounds like Gnosticism if you ask me.
>>
>> Paranoid Heretics, they're so predictable.........

> "liber enim librum aperit."