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Notes from Avital Ronell’s SeminAR on April 10, 2014,

which may contain inaccuracies and misreadings because Avital has
not proofread them. There is no replacement for attending class, and
notes can only serve as a reminder of what was discussed in class.
Dichterisch wohnet der Mensch. der Enthöhte O einer, o
keiner, o Niemand, o du. Hello, hallow, hollowed.Hello be my
name. Community of Paul Celan. Invite Kaka in. Remember end of
judgement. Cleaning lady, favorite depropriations. Has a hat. Tycho.
A feather or quill. Horatio of tragic catharsis. Georg about to jump at
bridge. She shields face and calls out “Jesus!” Filtering down when
we call out. Oh, and gee! Oh, my God, shortened. Slavoy, Mein
Gott! Or holy shit! Address or appeal, you called believes. The holy
other, wholly other. Not an onto-theolgoical way. What is being
called to? Herr, es ist Zeit. Rilke. Depropriation. O einer, o keiner, o
Niemand. We want to read this, track. The big N in Nada. The void,
unfortunately translated as. What does it mean? After all, Celan
formally retains structure of prayer, despite accusatory undertow of
poem. Poetry where the divine is archivized. Stories the divine,
poetry is shelter of divine, archive. Even if we have lost names,
we’re calling the divine, no sacred in Celan. Dropped in Hölderlin,
divine is empty. Hölderlin, Heilige. Hölderlinian retreat. Mediated
space of shading. Western retreat, maintaining a retreat God is not
flushed but is retreated. Retraced. Retrait. Ent-zug, ist Ereignis is
event. Abbreviation, an event in Heidegger says draws us into
thinking. In order to think the event, event of withdrawal. That is
what calls us. Retreat of the god preserves God, promissory note of
return, might not be man Austrian accent. Versprechen and sich
versprechen, to promise and to misspeak. Who are you to promise?
Sidebar I promise seems a speech act. I promise to cure you. It can
only promise itself, can’t do what it promises. Note that Enthöhte is
the least, whereas Erhöhte would have been the most. This
decreased term would like saying “piece of shitness.”
What would you translate? I am happy they don’t want to
take up the question of how to translate this. someone or one o one.
Like Nietzsche’s O, my friends, there is no friend. Ground zero of
an appeal, void, zero. Pregnant belly. Swells up, like Marquise von
O. Pascalian questions about o, or the annulment or zero of
signification. Compare, o einer with Herr. Herr, es ist Zeit. god, get
with it, time is due, metrics or measure. O one of you’s anyone or no
one. Niemand with a capital, not in the other version. is there a
hierarchy to “you?” What kind of lineup is this? Dissertation topic
of Hey you! All interpellations, Althusser. Just starting up our
engines. Stuttering, distress of address. I need to call out. To point
the locater. Celan’s writing in German. A little Deleuze, staggering
in language of other, though all language is already stuttering. God
has language, speaks something Celan. That God spoke English!
Niemand, jemand and Niemand. The Trial. Anonymity. Good repair
work after Marcus asked a question. Müsil, Heidegger, das man, the
they, the on in French. There is a kinship with Kafka, has given up
on sacred. Crashing of divine kafka works with, stagger allegorize
day! Hölderlin’s relation to us. Almost lost language. combination
of same letters. Its own life. O one, einer, too unifying, says Tycho.
Benjamin’s attention, Kafka, says Tycho. Jacob’s intervention. Zero
is supposed to make relation between present and absent. O, the one,
o plus one or minus one. We are taking in Jacob’s question. page 70.
Niemand. He’s unable to breathe, mustering up dichtermut, to start
the appeal, poetic courage, without ground or destination. Address is
more powerful. There is no addressee. I will repeat history of poetic
address.
Custodianship requires me. Get the address going even if
nothing. there. Not Northeast wind. No subjectivity. Having lost
everything. Aufgabe, task, giving up. Task, gift, giving up, make
address happen. A series of lurches, when it stalls. Try it again. Not
an exclamation mark. Trip ups or stop signs. No einter. Recite this
together. Would you have different mood? Go for keiner, could be a
whisper, no one shows up. Einer is not showing up or shows up as
keiner. Is it a happy story? Big topple. Nimrod. Complete the
quotation. To address no one is still to address. Despite inability. A
colon after a du: To secure a divine trope. Nimrod. Temporality,
address without address. If you take it here. Two versions in
Lacoue-Labarthe. Small niemand, without capital. Only
capitalization is with the colon. A whole hermeneutic circle.
Addressing not addressing. The French. Philippe does same in
French. page 80, capital Niemand. Nancy and Hamacher on sky. A
fragment. After “du” a colon. Where? Where did things go when it
didn’t go anywhere? Nobody, no one. What happened when it didn’t
happen? My exams. du tu. Familiar. New Testament. They tutoied
God, treated him familiarly. Possibility of prayer in face of God
becoming anonymous. A leap of faith. Two points. Lifting gaze to
sky. Hölderlin Celan. Sky is pure opening. Dichterisch one lives
poetically, one has a poetic way of inhabiting the earth. When
Hölderlin passes on. What kind of assignment? Dichterisch wohnet
der Mensch. Lacoue. I scruple to talk about Judaism. You cannot not
talk about Judaism in Celan. If there is, breakdown between poets.
Complicities they share. Failure of divine. Divine names. Awkward
rendez-vous. Between Hölderlin and Celan. Very different and
whacko ways. Celan cannot sign on to, compare two signatories.
Body slam, lockdown of the other. One of the ways to open
questions. Zero in on Wohnet Wohnen. Inhabit, dwell, to be a
tenant, to be propertied. Habitation on one hand. Greek and German.
To have a habitation. Delusion or madness necessity of habitation.
Susan Bernstein on housing. Homing in and homecoming. Ulysses.
Odyssey. To try to return to a home base, one is not at home. A
certain metaphysics. Wandering nomadism of Jews and others.
Dwelling. To house, primary occupation. Foreign languages, not
being at home. Tropologies accrue to those who establish
homestead. One doesn’t preclude the other. Chez soi. Sam Weber.
At home at someone’s place, my place, your place. At whose place
will have a rencontre. See worlds apart. Not binary logic. Habitation
broken up, a shelter in De Man fails to shelter. Temporary. Be
attentive to nuances. Shelter. Container. As we’re going to move
back. Thea. A poetic prayer, whole problem, polluted with smut and
ashes. What happens to the sky? Heidegger says why is poet, why
does poet incline to sky? The way one takes measure. In face of god
or God. Metrics of poetry. Pre-eminent means. Relating to
something celestial measuring oneself with it? Page 115 of Poetry as
Experience, Lacoue-Labarthe, text we are discussing today. Divinity
is the measure in that it is unknown. How can unknown one be the
measure? Must appear. By something that must appear. How does
the god manifest? One takes measure by the sky. What manifests in
the sky? The god who remains unknown is revealed by sky. Is sky a
place? Remaining unknown. A rapport to what conceals itself. Wrest
it out of concealedness. Sky doesn’t allow you to see. God
concealed in concealment, maintains what is itself concealment.
Does sky manifest? Nothing manifests.
Lacoue-Labarthe. God is dead, traveling to subject.
Nietzsche. God didn’t die enough. Power pump to Über and
Übermensch. God is deflated. I can’t and I must measure. Nietzsche,
we could kill. Some big payoff reward. Eating God for breakfast.
Lindsay, fourfold, restoration of intimacy. Avital questions
restorative moment. You’re always addressing the wholly other.
Intimacy addresses. I would complicate the itinerary. How do we
read on that moment? Student. It breaks triangulation. Something
breaks. Unreadability. Launch into distress. Carte postale, Derrida.
Schicksal and Geschicht. O du. Kafka, teacher rewards Dumkopt.
Poem stands up and constitutes the address. Maybe it is deregulated.
Trinity is knocked out. How you will mark value of each address.
Student, Moses. Telephonic constitution with Aaron. law comes
through stammer of Moses. Name of God right now. What is?
Repeats this problematic. Crisis we are looking at today, a near
corollary. Address of the divine. When he god comes crashing
down. No one, voici is possible anymore. All Abrahamic traditions,
where were you? If here I am is hyperresponsibility. After colon.
Celan cancels the call, where were you? In this terrible disaster. A
wonderful prod. What is not showing up? Ungiving. Hölderlin sets
us up for sky in Celan. Never my intention. I guess. Blanchot
l’Écriture du désastre, nothing is safe anymore, nothing is not taken
up into disaster. Temporal warp. Hölderlin has been waiting. Not
merely historical.
That you can even take that measure. Evan. Shoah. The
scandal of taking measure and yet necessity of measure. 6 million.
Another corridor, one is called to take measure. name of this is
about. Communicating the catastrophe. Something nonetheless
needs to be memorialized. Difficult zone of retrievals. Something is
still pinging, word of last airline. Running out of time. Looking for
something about to fade out. Forgetting of catastrophe. Marcus. Sky
was a place where bombings came down. He is making an
argument. Perhaps God is traceless. Germans win the sky. What
happened to skies in WWII? Support Our Tropes. Ever since
Sputnik, no longer a poetic zone. Historical texts. Paul Celan, Psalm.
Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7eIOcJeZio You
Tube clip. We have been intense. Lots to say. Listen to your
questions. Need more explication, dwell. A poem renounces prayer.
Arrives in prayer’s stead. Performs as an echo or repetition, a life
force, vitality, a memory trace. Reading through mantle of prayer, a
God without a name may be necessary in order to name. To move
up. O du, This is what it took to say du. Gesture of becoming
anonymous. Reading it wrong. More intimate knowing. Same place
as Jacob. page 75. Who is God? What the human is. Leben.
Wohnen, ecological, geographical, who is man? Who is man?
Anonymyity or naming. Difficult passage. I am not sure what is
unclear, Marcus. What then is the difference? Complicated
itineraries.
Exist and “to be’ God not to exist. Back up page 73. To
sbustitute, NIemand for God. God is not was not a name. Very
teacherly, was not a name. A name of all names is losing its name.
Personne à Dieu. If you can substitute “personne” for Dieu. Was
rumored to be name of all names. If God can be substituted. there
was no one to whom to direct an address. Turn out to know no one.
10 pages, commentary for your paper. Hey, man, not even give
dignity of name. What is this belief you could call on God. Whom
am I addressing? What and whom, who comes after the subject?
Who is totally different question. What is substance. Who changes
conceptual terrain. From Kant’s vocabularies, named and renamed.
Grave of the tradition. Naming and not naming. Negative theology.
Helpful. Astute. She’s still when aid we know. A hyphen, Nimrod.
Saturday, a conference and Saturday a keynote at Deutsches Haus.
Refreshments. Queer. German House. Pain for Lacoue-Labarthe. La
fiction du politique. Page 122. Pain is where he is moving. A thinker
of la détresse. That God is not a name, beyond all names. Name of
the name is beyond. Ambivalent names, minimum of negative
theology.
Finite language cannot say what is totally other. Neuralgic
core. Celan’s poetry is mounting. Cannot say what is wholly other.
Poem reveals no one. God as such does not exist. No one no one’s
name. Against theology and philosophy. All that is divine came to
be said, Plato. All divine things have been said in Plato.
Strangulation. How come poem. What gets liberated? God
has revealed himself to be Niemand. Wieder a historicity to that
figure that molded us. Almost naïvely after that happened in part.
My friendship with Lacoue-Labarthe, when I told him that de Man
said his reading of Nietzsche is naïve. LL told me maybe Paul was
right. LL told me this at dinner. Next week the Meridian. Ulrich
Baer will lead the SeminAR. He would like to be with us. Vice
Provost, he misses teaching. An experience. For raising these
questions. Be well! Even at Deutsches Haus this weekend.
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Asunto: Fwd: Notes from Avital Ronell's SeminAR on April 17, 2014
Fecha: 19 de mayo de 2014 10:20:03 GMT-5
Para: Bruno Mazzoldi <mataplata@yahoo.com

Notes from Avital Ronell’s SeminAR on April 17, 2014,

which may contain inaccuracies and misreadings because Avital has
not proofread them. There is no replacement for attending class, and
notes can only serve as a reminder of what was discussed in class.
 Ulrich Baer lectured today. He is Vice Provost for Faculty,
Arts, and Diversity at NYU.
Lindsay was admitted to PhD program at Brown, so not just
Oxford. We have been reading these texts. Relation to these texts. In
Meridian poem becomes conversation. Will have become an
important generator of inflections. Expropriation. Conversation
initiates creates an interesting gap. L’entrentien infini de Blanchot.
Contre in rencontre. Not an adversarial stance. Critical edge.
Initializing an encounter. With Baer. A few years ago in sit down,
says Avital., in her introduction to Ulrich. Stands up. Meridian.
Uli stands up and begins lecturing. What does it mean to
interrupt? What in art can interrupt art? Think of an interruption
breaks continuity of us in art. Charged terms. Freedom, won and
gained. You’ve been reading Lacoue-Labarthe. Hölderlin, occurs in
poetry. Different, unstructuring of poem. Celan, after WWII, Shoah.
Aftermath, open up time, not like caesura in Hölderlin. Can create or
I didn’t choose to create, put into an interruption. Put a complicated
Hölderlin, positive. Mallarmé till the end. Hölderlinian thinking.
Heidegger rediscovering, why. Was he lost? Caesura for an opening.
Celan, positive. Distinction not clear. Heady environment.
Cosmopolitan multicultural. Roumanian kid. German, French,
spoke. Stranger in Paris. German poetry from Paris. No categories to
write from. Jewish. Get foothold in Paris. His own position. A very
specific biographical way, says Uli. consider. LL and Derrida.
Shibboleth. Poet is an embodied being. Derrida doesn’t do
biography. (Uli does traditional biography, I, Gary, think. Avital is
more complex, between Nietzsche’s everything is biography and
Lacoue-Labarthe who says the bios is already on the side of death
and the auto is already allo. Allothanagraphy.) Most friends flee to
Soviet Union. 1947. From nowhere goes to Paris. A revenant, to
make his point. One question. Decade again. 1938-39. Writes in his
language. Are you a German poet? German doesn’t belong to
anyone. 1948. In between. Shoah. Interruption. Already dubbed. Just
a poet and friends. As a poet in German. Jena. Errors in German
publication/publisher. Not my German. Destroyed. What happens in
this interruption. Poet of witnessing. Celan, a poet after Holocaust.
Absolutely! Yes to poetry. 1947-1960. Each date is different.
Categories of freedom. What is happening when he turns to
Büchner? Finds an artist close to him. How can you interrupt
yourself? Celan. He stresses the first syllable of Celan. Where you
leave your language? Another language in language.
Unlesbarkeit dieser/ welt alles doppelt. Why is art necessary
to interrupt world? Why go through art? Unreadability, doubled. Is
world incomprehensible? Recreate world to understand it? Die
starken Uhren geben der Spaltstunde recht, heiser. Stray clocks
confirm split. Strong hours. Artifice. Automatism, confirm a
doubling or splitting. Du, in dein Tiefster gebleunt, ensteights dir für
immer. Jammed into your crawl out of yourself. Into a spot where
you are jammed up. We need to double, stray hours of world. Look
up Jan. 20. What happened? Layered with many dates. That would
be descriptive. History with capital H. When world has doubled.
Interrupt language within itself. Squeezed into that tough spot.
There’s the liberation, freedom. Long live majesty. Clamped. Long
live majesty interrupts everything. With cost to head. Opening up.
Celan does not say. Büchner, you’re dead, not Büchner. 1970 Celan
committed suicide. Foucault said Hölderlin teaches that art has to go
to incomprehensibility. Extreme is question rather than an answer,
says  Uli. Does art need to go to extremes? (Avital, I, Gary, think
takes on the extremes.) Trying to double things. Is a survivor, free to
come to Paris. 1947. From nowhere. From not having to interrupt
itself, setting oneself there in conditions didn’t. page 43 English.
page 192 German. Better to have text. Middle. Read. Ladies, I have
placed my acute accent. A pride comment. He is a minority poet in
majority culture. He has to overperform. I am always speaking.
They wait for him to misspeak. An outsider, Celan.
Excluding , one. Art and poetry more at stake. Height of art,
Bach. Perfection and get accused of plagiarism. That he hasn’t
written it. Biographical details. Then he says art must be interrupted.
I took up this question on my own. Not free will. page 193. page 144
in English. Perhaps I am only speculating. Poetry like art. Into
uncanny and strange to free itself. Path of Meridian, recreate the
world. Interrupt that place. “I” or “self.” Word interrupts. Oppose
this régime. Büchner. To become a person. To be an enlightened
subject. Kunst. Orchestra. Büchner. art to interrupt itself. I can speak
up for myself. No other space in Büchner. Of my own choice but not
freely. Place from which I speak is predetermined. No other spot.
Freedom opens into unfreedom. You can all be. No free place. First
moment. A throwaway sentence. Freedom, maybe poetry forgets the
self or uncanny. Sets itself from. From what space do you speak?
Language as conversation. Destiny of historical situation. At a
moment uncanny. Words German can’t understand. 17th century
language. Glacial formation. Mounds of snow. Read penitent.
Revive something. Strange and uncanny. Space in which you are
speaking. Not free to free himself. Poem had to obliterate itself.
Strip away art, get back to language. Not free play of signifiers.
Baer. can’t prove. No reference. LL Heidegger language as parousia
or Being. Poetry comes close. For Celan. poetry close to beings. For
Celan doesn’t go in that direction. Opening at this moment. page
196 German and 48 in English. Perhaps. End of first paragraph.
Perhaps, I am led to speculate. Perhaps. Encounter is conceivable. Is
this space absolute other? Absolute other can’t be touched. May be
close to another, coded love poems. (I, Gary think Uli sounds afraid
of the loss of referentiality and the free play of the signifier.)
Space inhabited by an other too. Opening on this space.
Space is close to you. This encounter, asymmetrical obligation, out
of yourself. Pulled toward other, impossible encounter with the
other. Completely free. You want to. In this space is a kind of
turning, perversion on turning forward. A hedgehog. Opens itself up.
Not solipsism. From this original impulse, self overhearing itself
thinking still from that space. Instability is radical. Not just dislike,
art complicit with murder. From my singular position. Speak on
behalf of event not chosen and to someone. Your position authority
you can’t escape. I want to and I have to. How do you do this in
poetry, ordinary language, and yet another level. I want to heighten
communication. Open this up. Ambiguity. Stay focused on the
opening. Interruption traumatic and yet opens. How to turn into
poetic utterance. Legitimacy. Why unauthorized? Not a body slam.
Open it to class. Things Avital might lob over. Dominik says poem
on blackboard. Tie it to testimonial and experience. World is
doubled. 1937, 1947. Not communicable. More than one clock.
After that traumatic event. Clamped into a split. Losing oneself.
World is doubled. Ending is complicated. You escape from yourself.
Liberating or the end. Playfulness, unreadability. Unlesbarkeit.
Unreadability shuttles. Allegory of unreadability. Double everything
versus double or nothing. Alles doppelt. Is this the reader’s manual,
jams itself up. Allegory of reading is there also.
Self-referential and referential, Uli. 1969-70. Poem.
Doubling dosage, not of his choosing. Point of Meridian. Read me
as poet I am. Not completely self-referential, not like Mallarmé.
(Here, I, Gary, disagree over this characterization of Mallarmé. The
poem Salut, for example, is much more complicated. Language
referring to itself is an oxymoron, it is not pure. Uli seems worried
or anxious about the loss of referentiality in language.) Reference
comes in accidentally. Reference is unstable, says de Man. That
reference is unstable. Can’t just get rid of reference. (I, Gary, think
who said we were getting rid of reference?) With Jacques at Maison
française, Avital. Nimrod, Celan in Freudian canon. Uncanny
double, world, what is this double? Unreadability, Celan. Double of
poem is theatre. Instability of reference. Poetry in theater. Double
and unreadability. Freudian tropes, Uli, page 53 of English. page
201 in German. Paths that poems take us on when we think of them.
Unexpected. Homecoming called into question. European
Enlightenment. To invoke Freud and Heidegger. Poetry comes
closest to thinking. May be truth. Path of a language to a listening
you. Buber? Not rule out reference. Not just language itself. (I,
Gary, think that there can be no itself of language, so I don’t get
what Uli is going on about here.) Overdetermination of signifiers.
Every word. The disaster. Creating another connection to human
being. in conversation with Freud and Heidegger. Important
moments. Heidegger listens and repeats. Poet reads this poetry next
to Heidegger and to 1,000 people. German. Tradition mandated of
his group. Poetry is the only thing. I am not obligated to speak to
them. Responsibility. German government to undo. Comes and goes
a reading. How can I speak to you? Writing under this obligation. I
cannot do anything but try to speak to you. I am German but not
Jewish. What is my obligation?
From me to you. What is possible in communication? Poems
try to create connections. Keep an affirming poem, not as totally
other. Absolute other. Rilke absolute other to person you love. Rilke.
Celan read a lot of Rilke. Trope of speaking, to lost beloved.
Orpheus to Eurydice. What is at stake in interruption? An ethical
gesture? Marcus, Holocaust did not interrupt ordinary business.
Things went on as usual. Not assimilated. You need to keep on
interrupting to learn interruption. If someone could make up for.
Interruption marks a place where one can find one’s space. A
radical, radically politics. Interruption not programmed and planned.
Unexpected, unfathomable. Marks discourse of ethics. Angela, you
win one struggle. Then change everything. Not just a wound. A
space from which to speak. Not even a space, ethics, continual
opening. Political rights. Avital Crack Wars but not freedom.
Derrida on Levinas, that one must read the interruption. Thea,
doubling of Celan and Büchner. A political interrupter. That he
himself interrupted these German prize winners. Butler, Adorno
prize. Bestowal of a prize is something to consider. Is Büchner
excessive? Nietzsche, Fund a Zarathustra Chair, says Avital. Uli
says he would if NYU got the money!!! They are all reading
Büchner. Is he finding something? yes, there is something, under
another rubric. Hannah Arendt. Humanism and humanity. Prize.
Lessing, something inhuman in humanism. Was a prize. Those who
refuse prizes, Marlon Brandon giving his prize to American Indians.
Rejected prize in 1973. Werner Herzog film.
Next week we have Pierre Alfieri. The question of address.
Jacob, Meine Dame und Herren. Parabasis. Comes up for air. Avital,
An interruption, as the Greek chorus used to do. Avital, these
moments, interruptive clench not the same as a caesura. Who
knows? Throwing up hands. is it a mime of an address? Other
German head of department. Just says “gentleman.” Performative. I
am art. Here I am, as in Büchner. Monkeys dressed up as humans.
page 188 or 83. Ladies and gentlemen. Someone listens, already. I
am talking to you. On second level, all of poetry is an attempt to
speak to you. Doesn’t know what it was about. Changes that “you”
who hears the speaker. You have no idea what I am saying.
Addressing me, art is a circus. Listening in listening. Sees him
speaking, no longer lost in message, what. You are seeing speaking.
Not effacing the person. Many things at once. Impersonates
Büchner. I don’t get it. Dismisses. Poetry, this is someone still
speaking. What is person speaking? Harold Bloom says literature is
about something, thematic. (Avital says about is less important. Uli
seems stuck on thematic or the about, I, Gary, think.) “About” is a
good word, says Bloom, cited by Uli. Ladies and gentleman, what
happened after the Shoah? Listening to someone whom you don’t
understand. Maybe we can’t distinguish. From the very beginning.
Pleading for his voice. Like himself. Open space. Catastrophe that
this could be said. Meine Damen und Herren, theatre, questions
anthropos.
A corpus that mocks possibility. It’s grandiose. Perversion of
society. Cabaret. Vaudeville. Kafka. Celan mocking us. Return to.
Nimrod. Less prescribed, dangerous perhaps in the text. My drag
queen, Jacob says. What is at stake is address. Simplest address,
ridiculous, anxiety. Nazi setup. Neutral innocuous. Repeating that.
Coming to presence, who says, what is happening. A very simple
thing. In Büchner does say. Takes us out of prize worthy context.
Kittler, Friedrich. Damen. Inserted. Suddenly ladies show up, says
Avital. Poetry works on repetition. A certain irony. Maybe I beached
you, not same. Something happens here, each time is different. could
we get less grish, more subtle perhaps, as Nimrod says. At the
breaking point rather than screaming. Badiou, shock of dangerous
perhaps. Schrei, Schreiben. Cri, écrit, Nietzsche. That made. Celan
wanted grayer language. Adorno, missed encounter. Subtle
destabilization. less visible, maybe that is the interruption. Caution,
more subtle reading not necessarily better, says Uli about Nimrod’s
focus on the perhaps (I, Gary, don’t get why he says the subtle is not
as good.) Repetition, death drive. A different relation to language.
path or sentences. Subtle interruptions. Just a bit. Tristes Tropiques,
Lévi-Strauss. Words are put in motion. Jacob, exclamation mark
after. Constitute an addressee. Exclamation mark not nostalgia for
monarchy. Conversation is a desperate one. A calling summoning of
the other. What is being called up? Lead to the absurd. Tries to have
a connection. Into Büchner into print. Use this word. There is not a
way out. A correct or appropriate reading? Celan is way out. Out of
previous writer. Poem interrupts being of art. This appeal.
Why space so difficult to attain. That where we are is where
we are. Why poem has to remind us about who we are. A failure, we
may never reach that goal. Evan says Freud says uncanny is linked
to the home. Uli says that question should remain open and that
Freud does not have the answer. (Why the ambivalence to analysis?
What is a question that cannot have an answer? Is it not an answer?)
Something in the home, the other small is also most strange. Keep it
open as question, says Uli. Rilke, how could we be just a little more
here? Unconscious, opening up. Both opportunities. Signifies in LL.
Freud, uncanny, detours. Way to do language, paths in Heidegger.
Holzwege. Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part. Rousseau, everything
happens by a detour, way of the detour is no path to truth. No yellow
brick road. Detour is constitutive. Metha dose. Benjamin. path,
strayer, stray cat. Heidegger, what does Heidegger want ot lead you
to? Interruption. What you discover is disaster. Harry, what it means
to restrain something. Presence and speech. More or less. Buried in
snow of page, maybe something you start hearing. Hoarse, schrei,
shcreiben. Physicality. Page 45 in English. I will now leave. I
believe I have met poetry in the figure of Lucile. For the step. for the
sake of the step. Beyond Pleasure Principle. Let’s take over. Pas au-
delà of Blanchot, step/not beyond. Step is essence of man,
Heidegger on Nietzsche. Philosophers who walk the walk. How it
builds up. Maybe a misstep. Rhetoric is suddnely flushed.
Suspension of rhetorical. When he leaves the man. Crescendo on the
step. What kind of misstep. Everything is tentative. To this step.
Opening is an abyss. Maybe perhaps. Absolute other.
Speaking to someone in the audience. Maybe I can take this step and
encounter radical otherness of other step person. To someone in the
audience. Only one person will matter into a space of uncertainty.
All these things happen. Public speech, not knowing if readching
others. End of speech. Sieburth translated, Lenz. Claiming the world
step by step. Every step precarious, is the future. Just a little step.
Whole speech stops. Another breath.
Next week Pierre Alfieri, with readings sent to you by
Dominik.

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Notes from Avital Ronell’s SeminAR on May 8, 2014, last

class of the SeminAR for this semester. These notes may contain
inaccuracies because Avital has not read them. Any error on my part
will hopefully have been an exemplary error. Text for today is
Derrida’s Rams/Béliers.
Remember we get to work together. Derrida’s reading of
Celan, an interrupted dialogue. Relatedness or disturbance. Flying
under theoretical radars. Not only how he approaches a poem. Die
Welt ist fort, ich muß dich tragen. Denn keiner trägt das Leben
allein.
Hermeneutics. How does that blank last? Absence,
separation. Readings we’re trying to do. What exceeds
hermeneutics? Hermeneutic circle. Space of interpretation. Keep the
circle closed, is what hermeneutics wants. Gather information,
meaning, and possible interpretative consistency. Closed off,
totalizable. Exemplar of major playoffs, hermeneutics and
deconstruction. Method. Warheit und Methode. Truth and method.
A live performance. Hermeneutics tries to…. It synthesizes, a
synthetic moment. False oppositional move. Hermeneutics, a one-to-
one face off. Distinguish. Disseminal. Not saturable. Doesn’t round
off or up. Scatter. Disperse. Similar to Benjamin. Looking for
residue. In excess of hermeneutics. Claims. Giving space to
undecidable. Account for everything. Clean up excess. Remove
phantoms, static in French. He will let undecidable continue, will
detect it. Multiply it. What is at stake, what might be happening. Or
something we can, a closural move. Aphoristic anxiety. Formal
aspects of texts. How they might hug it out. Not going to nail it
down. Dennis, something outside, transcendental in hermeneutics, as
if meaning were outside the text. The life, backrooms of interpretive
hermeneutics. Looks for transcendence. Who will sign this? God
signs declaration of independence. Undecidability. Implications.
Hermeneutics may not have generosity for singularity. Nothing that
eludes you. So different, so other. You as absolute other. Core of
nonknowing. Read Dilthey. Berlin, hermeneutic endeavor. Read
them, an astonishing mastery. Reading gets into allegorical splitoffs
or brought home or centred. Margins and way writing strays, trip up.
Hermeneutics. The world is gone, fort, absenting. The world is gone.
Freud, fort, gone. Strong in French, fort. How is the comma? Muß. I
must carry you. I must bear you. Bearing the other almost. Carried,
burn up. Brought to term.
Poetic “I” not yet born. Something singular about mother and
child. Shared solitude, may sell everything. Allegorical way. Poetry
says to you. We don’t have world or anything. No Weltanschauung.
We’ve lost world. Schiller. Greeks knew parousia or presence of
Being. Wholeness. Woundedness of break never got repaired.
Wholeness of Being. Sentimental. To a past that never existed. BFF.
Goethe naïve. Still carries Greek wholeness. From sunlight of life. I,
Schiller, different neighborhood. Dicthtung, dictated at behest of
other. I am crawling across the street. Erinnerung. Gedächtnis. I am
a melancholic. I can be sign who points in Fremde. Sunlight of
Being, luminous. Put me in a darker. Goethe Schiller in German
literature. Played off each other. Pound and Eliot. HD and Pound.
Who else? Shot down by beloved other. Eliot on Pound. Coleridge
and Wordsworth. Tried to smack Wordsworth. Whether these,
Deleuze and Foucault. Kept on escalating praise. Friendship has
destroyed. Susan Sontage, politics friendship, who suspended
whom? Goethe and Hegel. Maybe every poetic solitude has a secret
twitter account or incorporated other, internal alterity. Flea in collar.
Third step. Mary Shelley. Nietzsche and Lou Salome and Paul Ray.
Cosima and Dick Wagner. Great! What bearing the other is.
Übertragung. Translation. Transported into an ethical assertion.
Since I have read Husserl and world vanished or in Heidegger. How
do you read comma? In English, not a full stop, between. A comma,
world is in recess, no world to hold you. Poetic self comes into play.
Ethical imperative, I have to carry you. Take you in. Busy. Carry
you. To keep you going. Freud--your world shrinks to nothing.
Nothing there for you. Because you are lost. I must carry you. Poem,
word not referential, not pretend I am mirroring nature.
All sorts of interlocutors. Another discourse or formation.
Anspruch de l’oeuvre. Appeal of the work. Each poem pledges to
putting out a call to address us. For what is not. To the
inappropriable, why reference is the inappropriable. Reference as
my start-up point. My injunction, my duty. Ich dich, dich of
Dichtung. An I and a thou. Every poetic utterance goes out to you or
you that is radically other. I am responsible as a poet. Birth and
carry you. Welcome you. Reminding us when other dies it is the end
of the world. Seminar, Derrida elaborated on end of world.
Engagement, pledge of poetic, carries oneself over. I will carry you
without mastering. Carries over infinitely. Once and for all, anything
about. I am alone with the other. Also alone to you. My aloneness is
given to your custody. Dangling end, my responsibility to be named
now. Absolute singularity of the other. Hermeneutics, without
autotelic conviction or self-consciousness. Doesn’t say it has
anything. Heidegger’s “you” remains open, multiple. What is
“you?” A burden. Address myself to “you.” An infinite death.
Begins with the hand. Your energy is still there. Hermeneutics
would not allow us to dispute in this way. What might seem to
disrupt a reading, disruption, wrap it up. What seems to suspend
assures its future, like a nervous horse. Première partie. Ask about?
What comes before it. A rhythmic reading or pick up slack of world.
We do want to consider that. The pause. Something traumatic. Read
the pause and the interruption.
The “we” and also certitude of student’s comment. Maybe
we haven’t survived, ethical injunction. Überleben--survive and live
on. Very. Earthquake of comma would announce world is gone. You
have been decimated. Disruption of being. This why the pedal helps
in music. Different spillover. Shocked breath. Fort leben. Not a sure-
vival. World is gone. Nothing. Let me send another. Breathlessness.
Breathanalyzer test. Pneuma in Greek. Starts up. Inspiration,
expiration. Hercules, something completely different. You’re gone.
You are decimated. Addressee, very thing vacated. “I” have to carry
to world. Atlas gone. Zodiac. All of this has to be, take the breath.
Not the triumphal intake. Traumatic assertion. Is the world. What is
world? World worlds. How does world world? Weltsein. Where is
the in of Weltsein in world? Political journalistic. Global, planetary,
we do not have a world anymore. That I’m in the world. World and
carrying. Holzwege. Comma shifts earth. I would suggest a break.
Always reading call of Adorno. No poetry after Auschwitz. Days of
Being are gone. I sign to you. To pick up impossible slack of
disappeared world. Precisely because of Holocaust I have to carry
the ball. Nothing there. If reference. Heavy metal. Hölderlin.
You could dip in reference. I have to say doesn’t exist. I have
to carry. A muting pedal on piano, like. Resonating against space,
very nice. Limit it to a couple of things. WE have been considering
time. Yellow star, étoile jaune used in War, Jews had to wear.
Derrida urges us to consider. Béliers/rams. Interruption of sacrifice.
What happens between Isaac and Abraham. Doesn’t protest paternal
injunction. Winding horns that supply the shofar. Judaism. A being,
an animal in literature, a cipher of war. Only question in this poem.
What doesn’t the ram change? Perpetual rebellion. To charge.
Rodney King. A step beyond legality, pivoted on the indistinct.
Determinations. Charge in English. Military way. Price to pay,
nexus. Derrida follows the ram. Hélène Cixous. Ram is a paternal
figure which gets sacrificed. Avital, why does God institute an
economy of substitutions? Sacrifice is not sacrificed. Ram is violent
rebellion of all substitutes and sacrifices. A charge against ram.
Sacrificing and using me as a sign. Eruption of sacrifice. Why have
we not sacrificed sacrifice? Begins all economies? Produces these
convulsive discharges. All the scapegoats. To purge a community.
Metonymical round. Animal embraces the Jews? Who gets called up
altar of sacrifice? Say anything, a little quick. What Derrida says at
end.
Page 53 end of Part III, Bottom of 152 in English.
Disseminal experience, hiatus of a wound. Want to continue.
L’épreuve, the experience, the test. Béance. doesn’t belong to sense
or meaning. Opening. Lips. Derrida shows what he does, does not
close up wound. A trial, a test of interruption, gaping hole. Doesn’t
belong to truth or to phenomenon. Quivers with, quakes, or totalize.
Marks. Okay, this is what it means. The lips of this poem will never
close. Never has recovered. Hermeneutics, methods of reading cover
up what can’t be revealed. Cleans it up. Bataille, “Stop making
sense.” Nietzsche, emergency supplies of meaning. Keep intact.
Could be non-intact. Denn keiner trägt das Leben allein. Kafka and
father, who is sense making. Herman. Sense of dictatorships.
Derrida starts with. Tragen. To carry. For since or therefore. Since
no one can carry or bear life alone. No one can carry this alone, no
one could carry only life. Line reparation. Don’t retreat. Fake it to
make it. You can still. Retract it. Das Leben is subject to
destabilization. This life. Life alone, no one can tolerate. We can’t
do it alone. Inching toward Mitsein. Cables sent to each other. For,
O Keiner den einer niemand. Twin Peaks. Being carried by the
poem. You can’t do it alone, claim made alone. Life is closest and
most alien thing. Both. Tragen. Quality, not a heroic Atlas. Anything
else? Don’t want to open too many dossiers.
I can’t be. I think. I can’t do it alone. My duty, my, burden, the hand
that blesses. Poem is a handshake, destinal mapping, Celan. We read
hands, other points? Take the edge off. Skip. Charles Bernstein, a
local poet. Translation of Baudelaire “Be drunk!” Enivrez-vous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-l09c_5bY YouTube video
clip. The disjointed ending. Another five years to read this poem.
You have been engaging, carrying, allows for a disarticulation.
Disavowed, not something we’ve, human right. Poetry. Sacred
sobriety. Rausch. Rimbaud’s bateau ivre. Poetry is allied to
Dionysius. Poetry is always already related to dizziness. A
referential world. Cipher for poeticity. Wine. Sacred poeticity.
Enivrez-vous, Baudelaire. http://www.poesie.net/baudel1.htm link to
Baudelaire poem. You must get drunk. Il faut, one must. You must
always have a place or a right to a certain high. Not necessarily
theologically. On poetry. On green grass by the abyss. of all. The
wind. It is the hour to get drunk. Be drunk, on virtue. In your
fashion. En votre guise. (I, Gary, note to myself the repetition of v in
the French, vin, wine and vertu--as well as the impossibility of the
wind or wave ever singing or speaking. Apostrophe. Impossibility as
in il faut, from falloir to fail as Lacoue-Labarthe says.) It is the hour
to get drunk. Be drunk, on virtue, in your fashion. En votre guise.
Poetry does permit itself to go to places not considered sober. Poem
for Derrida, hedgehog crossing highway. Discursive truck. Will
make it roadkill. You don’t want to crush. Heidegger, de Man,
Derrida, Deleuze. Other wisdom they deliver. Taking to heart,
Erinnerung. Enacts. apprendre par coeur, to learn by heart. Teach.
Poem anticipates its death, so fragile. Always crossing highway.
Discourse, politics, what delivers and fails to deliver. Political
implications. Every day to think of poetry, holds you. Opened
yourself, wounds, sutures, not heals. Touched and moved,
unsubstitutable.