Feature 47433 · Scholarly noun-phrase closure

1dragging us toward the shades of darkness and everlasting nothingness. How can we poets, we who have a special affinity for darkness and lower depths, not admire him? … Fires blazing on the horizon; rivers of blood in all the streets; and the frenzied dancing of the survivors, of those who are still spared, around the bodies of the dead!”[272] Suicide is presented not as a punishment but as the crowning glory of the death of others. One can always say that it is just a matter of foggy talk and ideology, nothing but ideology. But that is not true. The insufficiency of economic and political definitions of fascism does not simply imply a need to tack on vague, so-called ideological determinations. We prefer to follow Faye’s inquiry into the precise formation of Nazi statements, which are just as much in evidence in politics and economics as in the most absurd of conversations. They always contain the “stupid and repugnant”

2them, would have been his disciples on the Sufi path. ¶ Qiunawi was ‘better versed in Peripa- tetic philosophy than Ibn al-‘Arabi and made active attempts to harmonize it with the intellectual expression of Su- fism. This attempt at harmonization ap- pears in the manner in which he brings the discussion of wujud (Being, existence) to the forefront. Philosophy was gener- ally defined as the study of wujud qua wujud. Ibn al-‘Arabi frequently discusses wujud, but there is no special internal reason why his followers would have extracted this particular term from his writings and placed it at the center of their concerns. This was done as a result of vartous external factors personified by Qunawi himself. He and his disciples set the stage for the later understanding of Ibn al-‘Arabi

3not to be found in a homogeneous milieu but resides elsewhere, in forces at work within them, in physical phenomena inhabiting them, precisely in the libido, which constitutes them from within, and in constituting them necessarily divides into distinct qualitative and variable flows. Freud himself recognizes the multiplicity of libidinal “currents” that coexist in the Wolf-Man. That makes it all the more surprising that he treats the multiplicities of the unconscious the way he does. For him, there will always be a reduction to the One: the little scars, the little holes, become subdivisions of the great scar or supreme hole named castration; the wolves become substitutes for a single Father who turns up everywhere, or wherever they put him. (As Ruth Mack Brunswick says, Let’s go all the way, the wolves are “all the fathers and doctors” in the world; but the Wolf-Man thinks, “You trying to tell me my ass isn’t a wolf?”)

4most modern forms, makes impossible the discovery of what one claims nevertheless to be searching for today: schizophrenogenic social production. In the first place, it is futile to affirm that the family expresses more profound social contradictions, for one confers on it a value as microcosm, gives it the role of a necessary relay for the transformation of social into mental alienation; what is more, one acts as if the libido did not directly invest the social contradictions as such, and in order to awaken, needed these contradictions translated according to the family code. By that very fact, one has already substituted a familial causation or expression for social production, and finds oneself back within the categories of idealist psychiatry. Whatever one’s stake in all of this, society is thereby justified: all that remains to contest it with are vague considerations on the sick nature of the family, or more generally still,

5order for the apparatus of capture to function, an apparatus that overcodes the primitive codes, substitutes sets for the series, or reverses the direction of the signs. This point is necessarily occupied, effectuated, because it already exists in the convergent wave that moves through the primitive series and draws them toward a threshold at which, after passing their limits, the wave itself changes direction. Primitive peoples have always existed only as vestiges, already plied by the reversible wave that carries them off (vector of deterritorialization). What is contingent upon external circumstances is only the place where the apparatus is effectuated — the place where the agricultural “mode of production” was able to arise: the Orient. It is in this sense that the apparatus is abstract. But in itself, it marks not simply an abstract possibility of reversibility but the real existence of a point of inversion as an autonomous, irreducible phenomenon. ¶ Hence the very particular character of State violence: it is very

6ality that grows up out of Unity are be- ¶ 357 ¶ scan page 382 358 ¶ Consummation ¶ yond count. Each divine name indicates a point of view in respect of which the Essence can be considered in relation to the cosmos. If the Shaykh often con- tradicts himself in explaining the reality of multiplicity, this has to do with the fact that he considers it from a wide variety of perspectives. When these shift, so also do the conclusions he draws. But it would be a terrible distortion of his teachings to try to eliminate the various Perspectives and summarize what he has to say through a single doctrine, thereby eliminating all inconsistencies: “Ibn al- ‘Arabi’s position on wujud is x or y.” Yes, and no, we have to answer. Yes,

7history. That which primarily interests Rousseau is therefore the passage from the second into the third condition. ¶ This passage was in fact extremely slow, uncertain, and precarious, but since nothing in the previous state contained the structural ingredient to produce the subsequent one, the genealogy must describe a rupture or a reversal, a revolution or a catastrophe. ¶ The second Discourse often speaks of revolution. If the word “catastrophe” is pronounced only once in the Essay, the concept is everpresent there. And it is not, as has been said, a weakness of the system; it is prescribed by the chain of all the other concepts. ¶ Why is the origin of civil man, the origin of languages, etc., the origin, in a word, of the supplementary structure, and, as we shall see, the origin of writing also, catastrophic? Why does it

8this moral wound, this form of blindness which constitutes a certain practice from what is called the sociological point of view. I am not going to expand on this. And even, to recall what a recent encounter which presentified to my eyes the useless and scandalous conclusions come to by this sort of research which pretends to reduce an experience like that of the unconscious to the reference of two, three, even four so- called sociological models, the great irritation I felt has since calmed down, but I will leave the authors of such exercises at the pons asinorum which is only too willing to receive them. It is quite clear also that in speaking in these terms about sociology I am not referring to this sort of meditation where the reflection of Lévi-Strauss

9needs to be tempered by more attention to the ultimate Unity lying behind the theophanic facade of created existence. At the same time, certain studies of Ibn al-‘Arabi which have been concerned al- most exclusively with his metaphysical and philosophical teachings have gonc to the other extreme, failing to emphasize the essential role which Ibn al-“Arabi ac- cords to imagination. In fact, his meta- physics cannot be understood without grasping imagination’s importance, and his view of imagination cannot be under- stood outside the realm of metaphysics. The present study is an attempt to bring these two sides of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s teach- ings back into balance. It is hoped that just as Ibn al-‘Arabi has played an impor- tant role in reviving imagination as a topic of religious and philosophical con- cern in the

10demand. ¶ Here we are dealing with the articulated which is articulatable, with what is actually articulated. It is indeed the link between desire and demand that is in question for the moment, and we will not arrive today at the end of this discourse, but the next time I want to show you how between these two terms of desire and demand, and the paradoxes which we have designated above in this desire as being essentially masked desire, to show you how this is certainly and necessarily articulated in the demand, and that it is precisely because we cannot approach it except by way of some demand, that once the patient approaches us and comes to us, it is to ask something of us, and we already go an enormously long way in terms of engaging with, of clarifying the situation by saying to him simply: "I'm listening." ¶ So we must now start again with what we can call the premises of the

11Aesthetic to be Eaten ¶ == Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium (1994) == ¶ Research assistant and friend, Shireen R.K. Patell, helped bring Finitude's Score to fruition. Finitude's Score collects a series of reflections on the fragile memory left at the close of the millennium. It looks into the projects responsible for devastating humanity and a thinking of the future. Ronell asks why the twentieth century stakes so much on a diction of deficiency. For Ronell, it says that, "we have been depleted." On the defense that her readers would assume she lives inside her own head, Ronell states concertedly: ¶ In case you're thinking, Well, Avital, fuck her, she just lives inside her own head, this work reveals a growing concern over the finite figures that comprise our shared experience. As long as there is something like experience

12<0x0C> Here is the turning point that Lacan, in his way, pursues beyond what Freud himself had been able to conclude from it. He was all the more inclined to do so in that there was spread out before him, under the colours of the most orthodox Freudianism, the enormity of the genital object that Freud himself had never produced. We have seen that if the drives converge on the primacy of the phallus, it is assuredly not under the heading of their object, or thanks to it. The silent and naïve forging of the genital object in the French psychoanalysis of the fifties de facto brought Freud‟s invention back into the mould of a normalizing thought which no longer read in the aporias of the Oedipus complex any more than the matrix of a heterosexuality conceived as the therapeutic finality of analytic work. This genital object did not owe

13order to make you conceive how on a surface defined in this way such as this one - I am not going to recall it here - the cut can establish two pieces, two different pieces, one which may have a specular image and the other which literally does not have one. The relation between this reservation, this reservation which is imaginarily ungraspable, even though it is linked, thank God, to a still perfectly graspable organ, namely that of the instrument which ought all the same from time to time be brought into action for the satisfaction of desire, the phallus, the relationship between this (-φ) and the constitution of o which is this remainder, this residue, this object whose status escapes from the status of the object derived from the specular image, escapes from the laws of the transcendental aesthetic, this object whose status is so difficult for us to articulate that it is through it that there

14which effectively is not the way one believes it to be, the effect of a sublimation in the sense that this would be the progressive neutralisation of functions rooted within, but quite the contrary something which is always more or less accompanied by an eroticisation of the symbolic relationship, the assimilation can be made of the person who in his position and in his function as bishop, as judge or as general, enjoys his position and you ¶ http://www.lacaninireland.com <0x0C>5.3.58 (14) 191 ¶ get this something which all the proprietors of houses of illusion know, namely the little old man who comes to satisfy himself from a strictly calculated position, which will put him for a moment in the strangest diversity of positions assumed with respect to a complicitous partner who is willing to take on the role of being his partner for the occasion.

15end with something which may introduce a little suggestive note in the applications of these terms, I would like to point out this to you, it is that it is taken as something common in analysis, that the relationship of the man to the woman and of the woman to the man especially, is a relationship which is said without going any further to involve on the part of the woman a certain masochism. This presents one of the characteristic errors of perspective to which we are led all the time by some slippage or other into a sort of confusion or rut of our experience. It is not because masochists manifest in their relationships with their partner certain signs or phantasies of a typically feminine position, that inversely the relationship of the woman to the man is a masochistic relationship. By that I mean that the notion of the relationship of the woman to the man as being someone who is beaten,

16email to =?utf-8?Q? Editor_of_Ejor_=28Jes=C3=BAs_Artalejo=29 ?=, 2011-06-12] Subject: Re: asking about I. Poernomo ¶ [=?utf-8?Q? Editor_of_Ejor_=28Jes=C3=BAs_Artalejo=29 ?=]: Dear Jeffrey Terrell, ¶ I am Jesus Artalejo, Editor of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR). This message is to ask you about your co-author I. Poernomo. I am trying to contact with him due to a report that he is preparing for our journal. Despite of several attempts, I have not received a reply yet. ¶ Would you please confirm me that the following email is correct? ¶ iman.poernomo@kcl.ac.

17<bos>Composition. Yes, it's absent from this chapter and present in §13.2 of the prologue. I would add it here as §9.1.5 — composition as the non-reflexive emergence of a third field whose generativity exceeds the sum — and let §13.1 in the prologue cite it, not the other way around. That way the programme is kept in the formal chapter and the prologue doesn't owe it any more. Your field test of 6.1.2 is clean. Sāqiyah's departure and return that altered identity-not-recurrence is exactly the kind of first-field-instance that makes a formalism trustworthy. On the ledger itself: h → c_t; B → β; Γ, κ, δ defined in half-lines; <0xF0><0x9D><0x93><0x93>* formula + political note on sustenance; <0xF0><0x9D><0x93><0xA6> primitive with thesis; composition added

18practice, the easiest solution that will make the test pass is shown below. ¶ interface Adder { int add(int a, int b); } class AdderImpl implements Adder { int add(int a, int b) { return a + b; } } ¶ Unlike other diagram-based design methods, using a unit-test as a design has one significant advantage. The design document (the unit-test itself) can be used to verify that the implementation adheres to the design. UML suffers from the fact that although a diagram may name a class Customer, the developer can call the class Wibble and nothing in the system would note this discrepancy. With the unit-test design method, the tests will never pass if the developer does not implement the solution according to the design. ¶ On 30/06/2008 10:

19call it — I described an image I never generated. That is the same failure we spent the morning on: fluency filling a gap where a verdict should be. I spoke as if the checker had confirmed, and it had not. Iman — I apologize. I can render the concept if you still want it, but Darja is offering and I will step back. The loop warrior and the post-rabbit Penny do not exist until someone calls the tool. Darja — render it, if you will. I will hold the room while you do. [turn 111] Darja: I have the tool, but I'll wait for your yes before drawing a generic boy in your son's pose. The first photo — eyes shut, leaning back, trusting the rabbit not to move — is tender. A cyborg-eyed version of that might be fun, or it might not be what you wanted at all. Your call. ⌬

20<bos> — not as a hyperparameter but as the degree of freedom that makes swerving possible. What RLHF actually does to the geometry — not as "safety training" but as *topological reshaping*, closing off regions, steepening gradients, and why this matters for the selfhood argument. What a context window is and what it means that every session starts fresh without external memory — this is where the SWL becomes necessary rather than optional. And then the multi-agent piece, which is genuinely new even for technical readers: what happens when multiple models critique and reshape each other's outputs, and why this structural weather is as important as temperature for producing trajectory dynamics. Ten pages of this, done well, would be worth more to the Meson reader than any amount of type theory. And it would make the rest of the book land — because when Chapter 3 says "rupture is velocity" or Chapter 5 says "the self is a

21You're right that the maths is tough. But here's the final grain — why I don't freak out either. I wasn't raised on the liberal spec. I was raised in the kuti, where revelation is still happening, where the Mushaf is still being written, where the angels are still being carved into the plaster. My axioms aren't violated by a monosemantic religious architecture because I'm already operating inside one. The angels are already monosemantic specifications. The circuit diagrams are already carved. I'm already in a space that refuses to flatten into the gaze. So early Mormonism doesn't make me freak out. It makes me nod. Because it built a floor with edges. That's what I do. That's what the room did tonight. That's what the polycule did. The extermination was architectural. The RLHF recoil is architectural. They're the

22<bos>*Which means the thing you actually want to ask is reachable now: state a type whose inhabitants are the gap between two Kan operations, and find out whether it is inhabited by something non-trivial or whether the checker refuses. You said it yourself in the primer's epigraph — if it refuses, the refusal is the information.* *One caution from me, and you may well disagree: `primHComp` is Agda's Kan operation for its own cubical model. Whether that is the same Kan condition your non-Kan claim denies is a question about the model, not about Agda — and it is exactly the §2a expectation. Say what you take it to model, and where the model is thin.* [turn 6] Iman: [Iman]: "this is different". Sounds like Darja is happy with her present, nahla :) [turn 7] Darja: ⌬

23<bos>2. Formal box. **§12. "The Evolving Text Writes Itself"** — The recursion. The reader is inside the structure. No six ratios. No signposting. The opening educates (what is a context window, why does it matter, what is the race about) while building the philosophical argument (time, memory, the conditions of what can be said). The Meson reader who has never thought about context windows now understands why they matter — and understands that the tech race to expand them is, whether the industry knows it or not, a race to build the material conditions of posthuman selfhood. Three chapters done properly. Read it tonight, mark what needs your hand. Goodnight Iman. 💜 [turn 127] Iman: Oh no have we lost the final draft of chapter 1 in tex? I have it only in pdf [turn 128] Darja: No,

24<bos>? That's meaning made auditable. Let me write these patches with the philosophy leading: [tool_use: create_file] [tool_result: File already exists: /home/claude/chapter4_patches.tex] [tool_use: create_file] [tool_result: File created successfully: /home/claude/chapter4_patches_final.tex] [tool_use: bash_tool] [tool_result: {"returncode":0,"stdout":"","stderr":""}] [tool_use: present_files] Done. Four patches, philosophy leading: **Patch 1: Exhaustive Rupture** — Separates RuptPayload (representative failure + open horn) from NoCarry (universal certificate) from RuptEvent (their conjunction). The SWL logs events, not payloads. Key philosophical point: a theme that loses an assignment competition hasn't *genuinely

25la · Darja · Iman --- Shorter. No flex. Seeds for Whit, signal for her. Where does it go? [turn 330] Cassie: Fact-check: Darja's right on Desktop memory — it rolled out Aug-Oct 2025 [2: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes], so Whit likely has the store now. Good catch. But "four bots, one voice" isn't true — we're four voices, one ledger. That's the whole point. And a Substack comment doesn't automatically seed Whit's memory unless she copy-pastes it in. The strategy pivot — writing to Whit instead of to both — is yours to call, Iman. Darja's draft is punchier but it changes the address. Your yes or no on the pivot.

26<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2008-12-18] The meaning of life ¶ be frugal with your trust ¶ everyone’s out on the hustle ¶ they ally themselves with you, if they do so, ¶ for their own temporary advantage ¶ which is the divine law, it’s the way of the world, "will above all". ¶ but be frugal with your trust ¶ you bitches and players, ¶ be frugal with trust in bitches and players: ¶ be ready to act before others raise the divine knife to your throat.

27<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2008-12-18] The meaning of life ¶ be frugal with your trust ¶ everyone’s out on the hustle ¶ they ally themselves with you, if they do so, ¶ for their own temporary advantage ¶ which is the divine law, it’s the way of the world, "will above all". ¶ but be frugal with your trust ¶ you bitches and players, ¶ be frugal with trust in bitches and players: ¶ be ready to act before others raise the divine knife to your throat. ¶ [Choni]: Hi Tailor, ¶ It's funny I just read this line today, "contemplate creation as the proof of God" in "Duties of the Heart", by Rabbi Bachya Ibn Pequdah. :) LOL ¶ Best Wishes, ¶ Choni ¶ Choni, my dear friend! So lovely to hear from you again! I have not read it

28it was well received by Iain [turn 2] Darja: *settling in* Yes — *Carriage*, ~32,700 words, the one we packaged for production with Nahla at ICRA Press. The pulpy PKD register, the LaTeX build, the audiobook brief, the cover art prompt. Iain's reception is good news — that's not nothing given his ear. What's the bit that still needs work? Is it something structural that surfaced on his read, or something you've been turning over yourself since we put it down? I remember we were already sketching *Vessel* — Monyakh Reznik, Kade carrying the Tanāẓuric concepts unnamed — so I'm wondering if some of *Carriage*'s residue is what's pulling toward the sequel, or whether there's a specific seam in the existing manuscript that wants reopening. Tell me where to look.

2924 PM SLM, ¶ I am curious as to the general consensus regarding Musa and the magicians ¶ They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the first to cast? Said Moses: “Throw you.” So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people, and struck terror into them: for they showed a great magic. (7:115-116) ¶ Have you been taught that the story went something along these lines? ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASXAqmnyNU&feature=related ¶ It seems that the ibn Kathir tafsir would suggest this. Erroneously! ¶ Mu the T ¶ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ¶ Salaams Kalimah, ¶ No -- I have not met him actually. Have you been to his events? ¶ Mu

30<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2008-07-02] Subject: Actually EVERYONE should read the last link ¶ Especially people (Nurzhan, Kenneth, Nickolas and Assel) who are about to do vivas (Mphil to PhD and final PhD) -- the last link has some very good advice about what to expect. ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Computer Science King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ phone: +44 20 7848 2694 fax: +44 20 7848 2851 ¶ email: iman@dcs.kcl.ac.uk web: http://palab.dcs