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Friday, June 19, 2015

Malabou - Eye at the Edge of Discourse

  An Eye at the Edge of Discourse

(303) The vision of thought.
  • What is it to see a thought.
  • To see a thought coming.
  • The thought at emergence.

Objective one is to explore what manifests a thought.
Objective two is explore the connection between concept and text.

Theoria: The idea, that allows itself to be seen as an image (eidos),
  • and the soul is what apprehends it.
  • The idea is visible because it comes from somewhere else to improve itself on the mind.

(304) There is an eye at the edge of discourse.
  • It is the eye of discourse itself.
  • An optical arrangement that language brings up to its edge through its structure. 
  • Language opens referentiality.

(305) Language renders itself both as discourse and figure, and
  • how it unfolds in linguistic and figural space.

There is a distortion between thought and form
  • There is neither speculation nor reflection between the two.
  • However, the mirroring is breach of reflexivity.
    • Between the seen and the seeing.

(307) The stare of the idea is a gazing,
  • and a fixing 
  • By the the one who is thinking on it.

(309) To see a thought can be analogy to the figuration of a secret.
  • A secret is something separate, withdrawn or hidden from sight.
  • The eye gives secret form.
  • Derrida suggested writers are carried forward by the secret of their own work.

**** The idea that the secret already is present, but not seen
  • Contained in the superego, but not present.
  • Until we see through the mirror of thought. 
  • Once seen, the secret is interpreted by seeing, and then by language.
  • The secret is revealed as an other, the superego.

The unknown is present, but it is not seen.
(310) Discourse allows the mind to be outside of itself,
  • to see itself, and to see inner secrets.
  • It allows us to ponder and consider alternate interpretations.
  • Language allows us to share inner secrets with others.



Malabou, Catherine. An Eye at the Edge of Discourse. The Philosophy of Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2012. Pp 304-312. Print.

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