Am I aware my voiced-to-voiceless alveolar
Friday, July 12, 2013
Epistemological Embarassment but it don't make no nevermind.
A Critique of Impure Consciousness: of
Rationalism, & the Age of Reasons Why
It’s an epistemological embarrassment but
never the less an addiction that we easily
confuse systemic
KNOWING (what the whole
body knows) in terms of our highly privileged
ego-conscious knowing. You may experience
this embarrassment any time you hear us
describe in minute conscious and rational detail
what actually are unconscious autonomic and
automatic processes.
(Ask your self: how can consciousness
KNOW the UN-CONSCIOUS —which rules—
without reducing it to conscious process, like
talking about sphere in terms of a flat line?)
What does it take to lift
a finger? tongue-tap the
alveolar ridge? maintain
the valved hum of a
low-back vowel? the glide
of a voiced glottal?
How do I sustain such
unconscious capabilities
& environed mentalism?
Fred Flatlander
will tell you.
Am I aware my voiced-to-voiceless alveolar
Am I aware my voiced-to-voiceless alveolar
fricative plural-variations depend upon—are
governed by—the environmental conditions
of the final segments
of the noun I
unconsciously pluralize? How do I do this?
Manners of speaking about
manners of speaking so to
speak.
A convenience. A
convention..
Once Faulkner & Joyce
exposed their streams of
unconsciousness offending
my linear habit of
beginnings, middles, &
endings; and then MTV,
damnit, began generating constellations of imagery
non sequitur to whatever lyrical sequence was
going on & on: my
sense of Show & Tell took a
hit, ambushed by
internal providential explosive
devices until it became clear
to me what a merely
convenient truth a sequence is—& because & affect.
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