Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

to how formal. systems participate with the world an answer that deals
with both the. grounds and the exteriority of sign systems. That is
codework was. already the issue though under the guise of aesthetics
rather than code. aesthetics in the older sense of sensation aisthesis and
not. aesthetics in the sense of codified responses or artistic forms or.
rather in the sense of the ground of these responsesforms. (I've.
discussed this elsewhere in relation to code aesthetics.). Comment
Which maybe boils down to time and space like in the. Kantian sense
of aesthetics and which then links to the recent. discussion here
temporalspatial stuff.. The working out of all this is the notion of
manifestation a quasi. mystical translation between proportionalities
enabling the whole. system. (I think here of the relation between code
and AS's notion of. plasma.).. Comment The 'ether' of prerelativistic
physics as the carrier. The. virtual underlying part needed to get the
system going at all.. The paradox here (Panofsky gets this too but it's
crucial to Eco's. semiotics) is the notion that manifestation will clarify
faith clarify. the underlying participation in being but in doing so will
finally. clarify faith (bring it to an end). This impossible need for.
exemplification leads in Panofsky's terms to the POSTULATE OF.
CLARIFICATION FOR CLARIFICATION'S SAKE. Leaving
Panofsky I think it's. possible to see in Eco precisely this paradox
enabling semiotics as an. intraformal economy of proliferating signs.
Everything must be. clarified made into as sign but (also) there always
remains some. unclarity guaranteeing a kind of momentum from being
to sign.. Elaboration i.e. the structures of signs systems arises from.
clarification. Semiotics is clarification not in any particular sign. but in
semiotics itself as the residue of clarification.. Comment Interesting I
refered to the virtuality of the sign (its. impossibility) argued for via the
recursivity of Eco's definition of the. sign ie its paradox endlessness
and from that the relation between. sign and residue code and double
and nothing etc. Eco and information. theory have an understanding of
recursivity and selfreference (via the. speed of light of computers) in
another sense than for Thomists for who. these problems would seem
paradox (and evil).. what degree is Eco's semiotics a concealed
continuation of a Thomist. aesthetics Read across the trajectory of
Eco's work from the earliest. text through the Theory of Semiotics
every sign is a ghost emanation. of being. Beyond this there's another
related but different history. explaining how the whole thing is staged
rhetorically dissolving. being into performance but that's probably
enough for now.. Comment This all seems to resonate with my simple
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