The cosmos has been chocked by life. I affirm everything as I know there's nothing for me to affirm. Nietzschean affirmation was never supposed to be about openness in an enlightening liberating way or open-ness at all; its blade thirsts for butchering and hunting all traces of economical ground-based openness (as economical openness has nothing to do with closure but parsimony and the grotesque domestications), devouring the entire survival economies based on the political ground of 'being open' [1].
Affirmation [2] does not make you open to the world but closes you progressively through the grotesque domestications of economical openness, makes you more solid and economically open, more moralized and more ideal for the boundary whose uncontrollable machinery is based on transforming openness to affordance [3], and loyalty to survival economy. It is not about how much you are open but how much you afford. It buries you under the ground of survival economy and its affordances. Being open is the ultimate trick of affordance and the domesticated interfaces of the boundary with the outside; it presents itself as an openness, particularly on the inevitably secured(ing) plane of being open (being open to, being open-minded, etc.) and not being opened. 'Being open', politically and cautiously, economizes the survival economy as an economical, heavily but slyly appropriated sphere of affordance (J. J. Gibson) (not referring to the restricted affordance of one or multiple systems through communicative nexuses but the whole environment, the horizon.) "I am open to you." means, I have the capacity to bear your investment or 'I afford you' (this is not my conservative voice but what arises as the fundamental noise produced by the machinery of different levels of organization and boundary, and finally the Survival Economy); if you exceed this capacity I will be cracked, lacerated and laid open.
However, affirmation is a 'Strategy' [4] to call and bring an epidemic Openness which always comes with plague, base-communication and participation, contamination and pandemic horror; it trails your solid state, your dwelling system that is to say your niche or Hieddegerian raum [5] (dwelling / accommodating systems), your subsistence and survival economy: libban, lifian. It doesn't need to run after you, it hunts you down from where you will be (Whereness) [6]. Openness always knows how to hunt. It (un)folds as an internal cut from where you haven't seen before and you can't see it in the future (it is the blindness) ... emerging and running through your body as a surgical machine -- gaseous, odorless, with a metallic wisdom of an scalpel -- cutting you; tearing apart, spreading and opening out molecule by molecule ... cutting through the nonhuman depths ... crawling across your gulfs of illness and butchering you through its rectal depths. If anatomy is cutting from up to down to examine the body hierarchically as a transcendental dissection ... then the katatomy [7] of openness does not cut anatomically, it butchers everything through the pink depths of the darkness spreading as an unground between the molecules (yours?) ... katatomy of openness is the experience of unground ... Openness only needs to be triggered off.
Posted by Reza at June 13, 2004 11:33 PM