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Bewusstsein ist ein kollektives Problem – Teil 1: Der
Totenkult</b></font></font>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Eine Ausstellung im
Rahmen der Galerientage 2018, Graz</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">kuratiert von Robert
Gruber</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">mit Werken aus der
Sammlung und des Kollektives</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Consciousness Is
a Collective Problem - Part 1: The Cult of the Dead</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">An exhibition held
at the Galerientage 2018, Graz
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Gruber </font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">with works from the
collection and the collective</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>André Baschlakow</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Joachim Baur
& sattler-glockner</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Martin Bilinovac</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Paul Braunsteiner</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Imants Daksis</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Jeremy Glogan</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Robert Gruber</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Kathrin Hanga</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Nicolas Jasmin</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Alastair Levy</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Michael Part</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Anja Ronacher</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>r.j. sattler</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Hubert Schmalix</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>[[[ALTAR:THRON]]]</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Franz Zar</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(arrival Graz:
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Opernring 1
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1010 Vienna</font></font>)</font></font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Anthropologischer Raptus nr 55\241</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">for gottrekorder e.v. graz</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Vienna, March 2018</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Consciousness is a collective problem</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Part 1 –
</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>The Cult of the dead</b></span></font></font></p>
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size="2">A</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Dualism*.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The cult of the dead is</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The origin of fear.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The origin of fear</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Is the cult of the dead.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">To believe is to say: ‘Hocus-pocus’ (Hic est enim
corpus meum).</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">But first things first.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Belief, that is, what one does not know, ceases
only if death can be civilised.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">(A conjecture.)</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">To civilise is not to
cultivate. Death
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>is</i></span><span
lang="en-GB"> cultivated. It is about a cult, not about
profanation. In the cult, death is anything but profane.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">There seems to be a paradox
inherent in death, one akin to pornography. (The
paradox, however, consists in this, that death as such
is not at all cultivatable if its being
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>is</i></span><span
lang="en-GB"> not. One believes what one wants to, but
decisive here is the basis. The basis is a wilfully
appropriated
</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent">copy of itself.</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> If nothing preceded belief that was
believable, worthy of belief – that is, acknowledged by
belief to be worthy – then there would be mere
emptiness. And it is well known that the fear of death
is to be preferred to the certainty of the void, to pure
fear, to the possibility of decision. Pornography shows
us to one other, shows the other in us, in the mirror of
the Opposite.)</span></font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The cult is based on belief.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Death itself
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>is</i></span><span
lang="en-GB"> not. The opposite of matter is anti-matter
(simply formulated, whatever it is, it is. Even all
‘holes’ are always described by the absence of something
– as negation, difference or antithesis – by indirect
reference. Dialectics).</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">(Circular argument or rather a
vicious circle? Even reincarnation, hinted at in one
idea or another, even in the case of the Christians, is
a memory, a remembered form linked to formerly living
matter. In belief, there is no breaking out of the
circle of eternal life! How should the soul be used as
an antonym to matter, as something remaining, when it is
soul that makes life possible for this matter? And
through which</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent"> it</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> first become mortal? In belief, there is
no ‘dead matter’. There is only the ‘falling away’, the
‘waste’ of</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent"> it</span></span><span
lang="en-GB">, the various circles of Hell – a ‘godless’
conception, so again in the sense of the matter-
anti-matter understanding. All that is, is creation. An
eternal dialectical understanding, a re-trieval.)</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">What would be left of the ‘dead matter’?</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The memory ... of the living.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">(A difficulty in itself. Which
memory? Of what? Of dead matter, or rather living
matter? But here the consideration of memory through a
phenomenological analysis is not necessary. Decisive is
</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent">its</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> [</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>the memory’s</i></span><span
lang="en-GB">] existence!)</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">But the memory is hardly ‘lasting’. Or how
lasting is it, in what does the survival of memory
consist?</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The retrieval (the ‘pretending as if’) of a copy
of life or a lifetime and their contents. This is not the
same thing. So much is certain: one’s own death does not
belong to life. Only the death of the other – as a cult
and as a reminder of the copy of his (the deceased’s)
lifetime.
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Time is an even more confusing
problem than matter. In death, time stops (it and we in
it) moving. Perhaps it is still there, but it has lost
the system of meaning (movement) lent to it by us. More
precisely, in death time is </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>lost</i></span><span
lang="en-GB">.</span></font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">So back to life.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">A saying: ‘One does not experience death.’ The
process of decease becomes describable as ‘dying’. As a
kind of transition (!) from one state to another. As hocus
pocus (which is already cultish) and as an aporia. As the
last time of living (plus something Else). Death has no
time? Man has no time in death. No time, no movement, no
disposition.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">As life is obliged to be defined in terms of
movement (in time), so death in terms of its absence.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Death unites all the time in
the world in itself, but it cannot do anything with it.
Nothing moves, much less of its own accord. Living being
is per se limited by time. Indirectly. But death is
immediate. Immediacy has no time at its disposal. The
question remains whether life, as a function of time, is
mediate. In terms of the history of man’s genesis and
progression, time is immanent. (What is after all
remembered outside human history? And there is no other.
Again, circular reasoning.) In this connection, time is,
as a contextual concept, history, the archiving of
descriptions as memories. And the death of man; his
death is contained
</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent">therein</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> only as a cult of
</span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background:transparent">the copy of itself</span></span><span
lang="en-GB">. As a cultic copy of what is ultimately
immediate (death).</span></font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Long live belief! And it does so at the expense
of death, of immediacy. Belief is indirect.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Thus:</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Life is over; it should be remembered further.
Indirectly, through the death of others.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">And one is oneself hopeful – at least
historically –
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">hopeful at least of hope for history!</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">And one is oneself hopeful ... part of the memory
of others; part of the remembered history of others,
through the memory of others.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">*</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">The qualitative content of the formula depends on
the reference, on the integration into a value-adding
system. The same sign is here one thing, there another,
although the operation remains the same. Equated but, so
to say, different. Dualism instead of equivalence.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">B<br>
History is a cultic undertaking. Committed to belief!</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Death is certain.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">&</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">On pornography, here only a word from Bataille:
‘God is worse and more remote than the evil; he is the
innocence of evil’.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom:0cm;
line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt"
size="2">Note: it is probably an achievement, an
intention, of belief to make the death of others usable in
life – in the sense that one will oneself someday be in
for it.</font></font></p>
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line-height:115%" lang="en-GB">
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lang="en-GB">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm" align="RIGHT"><font face="Arial,
sans-serif"><font size="2">Anthropologischer Raptus nr
55\241</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm" align="RIGHT"><font face="Arial,
sans-serif"><font size="2">für gottrekorder e.v. graz</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm" align="RIGHT"><font face="Arial,
sans-serif"><font size="2">Wien, März 2018</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="2">Bewusstsein ist ein kollektives Problem</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="2">Teil 1 –
<b>Der Totenkult</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">A </font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Dualismus*.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der Totenkult
ist</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">der Ursprung
der Angst. </font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der Ursprung
der Angst ist</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">der Totenkult.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Wer glaubt,
sagt dazu: „Hokuspokus“ (Hic est enim corpus meum).</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Aber der Reihe
nach.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Glauben, also
das, was man nicht weiss, höre wohl erst auf, wenn es
gelänge den Tod zu zivilisieren.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(Eine
Vermutung.)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Zivilisieren
und nicht Kultivieren. Der Tod
<i>ist </i><span style="font-style:normal">kultiviert.
Es geht dabei um den Kult, nicht um das Profanisieren.
Denn im Kult ist der Tod alles andere als profan.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span
style="font-style:normal">Dem scheint ein Paradox
innezuwohnen; verwandt dem der Pornographie. (Das
Paradox bestünde aber darin, dass der Tod an sich gar
nicht kultivierbar wäre, wenn sein Sein keines
</span><i>ist</i><span style="font-style:normal">. - Man
glaubt zwar, was man will, aber entscheidend ist dafür
doch auf welcher Grundlage. Die Grundlage ist eine
willentlich angeeignete, eigene Kopie. Denn wenn dem
Glauben nichts voranginge, dass glaub-bar,
glaubwürdig, also des Glaubens als würdig anerkannt
wäre, dann bliebe bloße Leere. Und die Furcht vor dem
Tod ist bekanntlich der Gewissheit der Leere, der
reinen Angst, der Möglichkeit zur Entscheidung,
vorzuziehen. Die Pornographie zeigt uns selbst
einander, das jeweils Andere in uns im Spiegel des
Gegenüber.) </span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der Kult
stützt sich auf das Glauben.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span
style="font-style:normal">Der Tod an sich,
</span><i>ist</i><span style="font-style:normal"> gar
nicht. Das Gegenteil von Materie ist Antimaterie
(einfach formuliert – was immer das ist, es ist.
Selbst alle „Löcher“ werden immer durch das Fehlen von
etwas – als Negation, Differenz oder Antithese -
beschrieben, durch Bezug mittelbar. Dialektik).</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(Zirkelschluss
oder doch lieber Teufelskreis? - Selbst die
Reinkarnation, in der einen oder anderen Idee, auch bei
den Christen angedeutet – ist eine Erinnerung, eine
erinnerte Form geknüpft an eine ehemals lebendige
Materie. Es gibt im Glauben kein Ausbrechen aus dem
Kreis ewigen Lebens! Wie sollte die Seele als Antonym
zur Materie herangezogen werden, als etwas
übrigbleibendes, wenn sie es doch ist, die dieser
Materie das Leben ermöglicht? Und dadurch diese erst
sterblich wird? Im Glauben gibt es keine „tote Materie“.
Es gibt lediglich den „Abfall“ davon, die
unterschiedlichen Kreise der Hölle – ein „gottlos“, also
wieder einen Entwurf im Sinne des Materie –
Antimaterie-Verständnisses. Alles was ist, ist
Schöpfung. - Ein ewig dialektisches Verständnis. Ein
Wieder-holen.)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Was bliebe von
der „toten Materie“?
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">- Die
Erinnerung. ..an die lebende.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(Eine
Schwierigkeit für sich. Welche Erinnerung? Woran? An die
tote Materie oder doch eher die lebende? Aber hier ist
die Betrachtung der Erinnerung als phänomenologische
Analyse nicht nötig. Entscheidend ist doch ihr Bestand!)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Aber die
Erinnerung ist wohl kaum „bleibend“. Oder wie bleibend
ist sie, welchen Bestand hat die Erinnerung?</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Das
Wiederabrufen (das „So-tun-als-ob“) einer Kopie von
Leben bzw. Lebenszeit und deren Inhalten. Das ist nicht
dasselbe. Soviel ist gewiss: Der eigene Tod gehört nicht
zum Leben. Nur der Tod des/der Anderen – als Kult und
als Erinnerung an die Kopie(n) von deren (der
Verstorbenen) Lebenszeit.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Die Zeit ist
ein noch verwirrenderes Problem als die Materie. Im Tod
hört sie auf (sich und wir in ihr) zu bewegen.
Vielleicht ist sie noch da, aber das ihr von uns
verliehene Bedeutungssystem (Bewegung)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">hat sie
verloren. Genauer: Im Tod ist die Zeit
<i>verloren</i>.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Also zurück
ins Leben:</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Ein
Sprichwort: „Den Tod erlebt man nicht.“ Der Vorgang des
Ablebens wird beschreibbar als „Sterben“. Als eine Art
Übergang (!) vom Einen zum Anderen. Als Hokuspokus (der
ist bereits kultisch) und als Aporie. Als die letzte
Zeit des Lebenden (plus etwas Anderem). Der Tod hat
keine Zeit? Der Mensch hat im Tod keine Zeit. Keine
Zeit, keine Bewegung, keine Verfügung.
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">So das Leben
einer Definition von Bewegung (in Zeit) verpflichtet
ist, ist im Tod die Abwesenheit derselben.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der Tod
vereint alle Zeit der Welt in sich, aber er hat damit
nichts anzufangen. Es bewegt sich nichts, schon gar
nicht aus sich heraus. Das Lebendige ist per se
begrenzbar mittels Zeit. Mittelbar. Der Tod aber ist
unmittelbar. Der Unmittelbarkeit steht keine Zeit zur
Verfügung. Es bleibt die Frage ob das Leben, als eine
Funktion von Zeit, mittelbar ist? In Bezug auf die
Entstehungs- und Fortschreitens-Geschichte des Menschen,
ist diese Zeit immanent. (Was ist schon erinnert
ausserhalb der menschlichen Historie? - und eine andere
gibt es nicht. Wieder ein Zirkelschluss.) Zeit ist
diesbezüglich, als kontextueller Begriff die Historie,
das Archivieren von Beschreibungen als Erinnerungen. Und
der Tod des Menschen, sein Tod ist darin auch nur
enthalten als Kult der Kopie davon. Als kultische Kopie
des letztlich doch Unmittelbaren (Todes).</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Es lebe der
Glaube! Und er tut es auf Kosten des Todes, der
Unmittelbarkeit. Der Glaube ist mittelbar.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Also:</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Das Leben ist
vorbei; es solle weiter erinnert werden. Mittelbar,
mittels, durch den Tod der Anderen.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Und man ist
selbst hoffentlich - zumindest historisch gesehen, -
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">hoffentlich
zumindest von Hoffnung für die Historie!
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Und man ist
selbst hoffentlich … Teil der Erinnerung der Anderen;
Teil der erinnerten Historie der Anderen, durch die
Erinnerung der Anderen.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">*</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der
qualitative Gehalt der Formel hängt ab vom Bezug, von
der Integration in ein wertschöpfendes System. Dasselbe
Zeichen fällt hier so, da anders aus, obgleich die
Operation dieselbe bleibt. Zwar gleichgestellt doch
quasi verschieden. Dualismus statt Äquivalenz.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">B </font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Die Historie
ist ein kultisches Unterfangen. Glauben verpflichtet!</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Der Tod ist
Gewiss.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">&</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Zur
Pornographie hier nur Bataille: „Gott ist schlimmer und
ferner als das Böse, er ist die Unschuld des Bösen.“</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
0px;margin-bottom:0cm; font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Anmerkung: es
ist wohl eine Errungenschaft, Intention des Glaubens,
den Tod der Anderen im Leben nutzbar zu machen – indem
Sinne dass man selbst auch irgendwann dran ist.</font></font></p>
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