space for my spitballs on esoterica (yours too)
other_life
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that's a huge question even outside of this prynne piece, jesus.
luka
Well-known member
February, 1967
"Man extending himself into the landscape, as you say; which you are right to consider a crucial question for the subsequent formalities of conduct. My own interest has a different emphasis from yours, however, and as it's clear that a great pressure has to be located behind the Indo European migrations, it can as clearly be shaped to serve quite various though related needs.
So that: I address myself to the primal history of QUALITY, as a designation for accumulations of motive simultaneous with patterns of behaviour as convergence I could take this as place-focus, but just as well in the discretionary image of person, or local convulsions in the sequence of time. And with such a separation from the idea of REGION, it becomes more possible to consider land mass more or less as such: the loess tundra, for example, or boreal parkland, in which brief or semi permanent settlement is possible but not in the figure of large social organisation which makes a region. My instinct is that the distribution of local instances of fact which can be grouped(pot and implement typology, for example) has led to imposed ideas of REGION that are foreign in pre literate landscape and which are(by unacknowledged retrojection) based on common law practice concerning land OWNERSHIP. .."
Jhp
"Man extending himself into the landscape, as you say; which you are right to consider a crucial question for the subsequent formalities of conduct. My own interest has a different emphasis from yours, however, and as it's clear that a great pressure has to be located behind the Indo European migrations, it can as clearly be shaped to serve quite various though related needs.
So that: I address myself to the primal history of QUALITY, as a designation for accumulations of motive simultaneous with patterns of behaviour as convergence I could take this as place-focus, but just as well in the discretionary image of person, or local convulsions in the sequence of time. And with such a separation from the idea of REGION, it becomes more possible to consider land mass more or less as such: the loess tundra, for example, or boreal parkland, in which brief or semi permanent settlement is possible but not in the figure of large social organisation which makes a region. My instinct is that the distribution of local instances of fact which can be grouped(pot and implement typology, for example) has led to imposed ideas of REGION that are foreign in pre literate landscape and which are(by unacknowledged retrojection) based on common law practice concerning land OWNERSHIP. .."
Jhp
other_life
bioconfused
see the parentheticals. many of my questions resolved themselves
other_life
bioconfused
by working the soil we cultivate the sky
luka
Well-known member
Remember sometimes straight lines replacing curves are a result of the writing tool itself and what it is written IN
Historical materialism
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other_life
bioconfused
he hasn't read it? it'd perfect fodder for agit-prop on The Barbarian Ideal!
other_life
bioconfused
i haven't looked at it in months but it's such a cool proposition, i'll look back on it and maybe pick some quotes for this one