I can't stop thinking about yesterday's class discussion. If people are separated from everything by reason, or the distinctions that naturally ensue between one body and another, is it possible to transcend the space between and think the ecological thought. At first I thought it was impossible because reasonably a genuine connection would never exist between too bodies because of the endless space between every molecule, No matter how hard you try to touch something are you ever really touching it. Even if we were to rearrange the molecules of our body so that it could pass through other bodies there would still be space.
Then I realized the possibility for cooperation between molecules. If two bodies could fully cooperate with each other I think they could transcend the space. What if both bodies rearranged their molecules? Would even the molecules themselves be able to touch? Even if they did touch they would also not be touching. Sort of how we are both ourselves and not and in the mesh and not. Maybe the space is what connects us. Space is what gives a body it's form and distinction and the possibility for transcendence. Space makes distinctions and then tells us that they do not matter. This is my understanding of the mesh thus far. We can never be in the mesh when space exists because we will always separate ourselves. However, we are always in the mesh because we are all connected by this space. An awareness of this distinction might lead to a transcendence. Who knows?
Space is a part of the mesh, no?
ReplyDeleteThe commment made in class on the perpetual and inescapable space between molecules literally stole the ground from under my feet. Once again I experienced previously expressed physical/bodily symptoms of these ideas. I felt the nauseating motion sickness of realizing that we are made of and immersed in floating and moving molecules. When you become aware that the "stuff" you are made of is full of negative space as well as postive tissue, the boundaries of the body seem more blurred, arbitrary even. There is less of a distinction between "you" and the atmosphere all around. We are permeable and dependent on the exchanges (breath, sun on skin, perception) and therefore independence or autonomy is mere illusion. Consciousness is non existent without something to be conscious of.
ReplyDeleteBack to subject of space, I would say to Tom that not only is space a part of a mesh, but seems to me even the adhesive element which binds all in it.
(sidenote: riding a bicycle having in mind that your tires are not actually "touching" the ground is very alarming, slightly magnificent.)
That's totally the driving concept of Jacques Derrida's Differance. Not the bicycles, obviously. The adhesive element part.
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