INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES edition by Roger Taylor Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES is co-authored by Roger Taylor and the avatar, Rumpledsilkskin. They write 'Part of our subject matter is to give serious treatment to the notion of "getting out of it", another part concerns who is to get out. The inevitabilities of the poor are the factum, the starting point. What does Bear the surfboard-maker in Big Wednesday say as the surf heroes ride the unprecedented? "Oh! I'm just the garbage man." Generally the poor are addressed to improve them, educate them, edify them, empower them, sensitise them, quiet them, control them. These are strategems for creating illusions of change. So it is argued, the rich are going to have to overcome hell of a hump to get into heaven, whereas queuing garbage men are the last made first. For this illusory privilege they are exhorted to love those who trespass against them. "Getting out of it" is defence and escape, and virtuality is one of the forms of "getting out of it". Socially developed and controlled forms of virtuality are generally commodified, but commodified entertainment is bootlegged like booze and has its non-commodified forms like poteen and alpine eau de vie. And, of course, the objects of art can be appropriated for any purpose whatsoever, just as art has appropriated the objects of not art as objects of art.
This philosophical journey begun a long time ago, whichever moment it was when it began, is now to be completed in the cells of this book. There was no way for us to have envisaged this precise ending at the outset, despite a determination to arrive where we are. The destination is virtuality and class and underclass and escape. The possibilities of virtuality have multiplied since we started our kind of life. Those possibilities are part and parcel of the aspirations of self-consciousness and autonomy, and all these particles including the aspirations were all interwoven, even if unrecognised, in the embryonic vision. And so, our kind of life, our sentence, starts by revisiting and reflecting on various stopping points on the journey, as well as striking out across a vast territory still uncrossed. Following will not be easy, it will not be an instant thing, and the subject matter is irreducibly difficult. For escape none of this is necessary, but for the defence of escape it may well be, certainly nothing "out there" goes half far enough.
There is a collectiveness to vanishing, a shared conspiracy. This is a global, empirical scepticism. The alternative worlds that are turned to and created take both individual and collective forms. There is nothing solipsistic about mass disappearance. Moreover, vanishing is always double-edged. Spasmodically the masses reappear. Suddenly they are in the streets pointing. The excesses of the existing order do not go unnoticed. Or they reappear as heroes to fulfil their own fantasies. But the masses will never again sacrifice a generation or two for a future that never comes. The masses are playing the long game now. The masses are playing games.'
INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES is a work of straight philosophy (workshop cells) and philosophical fictions (recreational cells). It addresses such topics as Art as Commodity, the As If, Virtuality, Virtual Reality, Freedom and Consciousness, Determinism (philosophical, neuro-physiological, genetic), Materialism, Pluralism and Truth, Post-Modernism, Moral and Political Theory and the Philosophy of Escape. It waves a flag of conceptual revolution in the face of received sense but, at the same time, it rests with the ordinary and the unnoticed.
INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES edition by Roger Taylor Politics Social Sciences eBooks
From the controversial author of ART, an Enemy of the People comes a 700+ page deluge expanding Roger Taylor's speculations on ART/ANTI-ART.Perhaps I'm generous in the 4 star rating. Why So? Because one doesn't know what to make of this book as a whole...We have intense philosophical arguments (Which I signed on for!) and then we also have Joyce/Pynchon/Wallance type indulgences of sheer craziness, which are pretty well done...maybe lacking at times in emotional continuity, but certainly good humor, sporting observations, great word choice and fun. Why 4 stars? WHy not 2 or 3 stars? That's a matter of taste. Personally, I'm seeing what a unique deluge this is as a whole and I see it as a wonderful specimen. If I were not a huge philosophy/psychology/literature guru, I'd say "what the hell is this?!?" and toss the entire book in the rubbish bin despite its tight syntax and flow.
Let me clarify:
What we have here is a 20yr academic philosopher long since retired who is pushing his own limitations with total fearlessness. He's in a process of re-examining his ideas from the ground up, and doing so in a creative way; perhaps realizing along the way that his creativity is giving him clues as to a greater picture of human experience, no longer bounded by strict concepts, empiricism, or linear thinking.
Part way through the book I find a really telling slip on his part. He mentions pluralism/subjectivism in a negative light and spits out the words, "terrified of roots/positions" He is in fact terrified of thought which remains un-rooted...(a good trait in a thinker, but with it comes limitations: Probably won't find him hiding Bataille under his pillow.)
Taylor is struggling to get beyond his personality type (ENTP) which has difficulty with personal identity, private valuation, emotional openness and any sort of jargon that might sound obscurantist or deal with a so-called unconscious. In place of postulating an unconscious, Taylor's creativity constructs a quick compromise: HE BEGINS TO OBSESS OVER THOUGHTS WITHHELD. So long as they are super-liminal, however strange, he begins allowing them. Making them a symbol of his inner life would be too risky, too Jungian...so he must make a compromise and locate them within consciousness. But are they perhaps sprouting up randomly from beneath it, like a waking dream? ...but he insists on staying materialist, rational, rooted, at war with his own psychological architecture. Marx would be displeased if one of his long time bedfellows starting making open concessions to any kind of mysticism which could complicate the crusade to liberate the proletariat...but now maybe I'm being cruel. The book is stuffed full of very fine moments. When Taylor is doing the analytical business he's spot on (ENTP's are great visionary thinkers) and when he's at war with himself, he's having a sporting good time of it and so are we. (However he decides to justify or not justify his excess!)
His passages on virtual escape (Video games, pornography, commodities etc) are full of humor, detail and Baudrillard style "soft-philosophy" which seems to me the most viable kind of philosophy because we have very technical, thorough-going meditation on phenomena unique to our modern life dissected and pondered in a gleeful, ironic sometimes scathing sometimes admiring way. His musing are not quite political, not quite psychological, not quite moral, not quite comedy...imagine Socrates describing all the possible attitudes one might have towards onanistically "Knowing thyself" in a virtual era. Such musings fit a niche clearly suited to the leisurely sport of philosophy. Heidegger said "The speech of genuine thinking is by nature poetic." This book is a good specimen of the man behind it, and like kierkegaard, sometimes philosophy is more in need of a new sort of person than a new sort of thought.
I say "Keep discovering yourself" Roger Taylor, and we'll happily follow with you.
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INVISIBLE CELLS AND VANISHING MASSES edition by Roger Taylor Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
This was the best book I have read in the last four years. If you think in terms of Marx, Nietzsche, and aesthetics, this is a fun and thought provoking book. Parts of it remind of Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground," and a little piece by Blondel in "The New Nietzsche." You cannot read in one sitting, but keep at it because the rewards are immeasurable.
From the controversial author of ART, an Enemy of the People comes a 700+ page deluge expanding Roger Taylor's speculations on ART/ANTI-ART.
Perhaps I'm generous in the 4 star rating. Why So? Because one doesn't know what to make of this book as a whole...We have intense philosophical arguments (Which I signed on for!) and then we also have Joyce/Pynchon/Wallance type indulgences of sheer craziness, which are pretty well done...maybe lacking at times in emotional continuity, but certainly good humor, sporting observations, great word choice and fun. Why 4 stars? WHy not 2 or 3 stars? That's a matter of taste. Personally, I'm seeing what a unique deluge this is as a whole and I see it as a wonderful specimen. If I were not a huge philosophy/psychology/literature guru, I'd say "what the hell is this?!?" and toss the entire book in the rubbish bin despite its tight syntax and flow.
Let me clarify
What we have here is a 20yr academic philosopher long since retired who is pushing his own limitations with total fearlessness. He's in a process of re-examining his ideas from the ground up, and doing so in a creative way; perhaps realizing along the way that his creativity is giving him clues as to a greater picture of human experience, no longer bounded by strict concepts, empiricism, or linear thinking.
Part way through the book I find a really telling slip on his part. He mentions pluralism/subjectivism in a negative light and spits out the words, "terrified of roots/positions" He is in fact terrified of thought which remains un-rooted...(a good trait in a thinker, but with it comes limitations Probably won't find him hiding Bataille under his pillow.)
Taylor is struggling to get beyond his personality type (ENTP) which has difficulty with personal identity, private valuation, emotional openness and any sort of jargon that might sound obscurantist or deal with a so-called unconscious. In place of postulating an unconscious, Taylor's creativity constructs a quick compromise HE BEGINS TO OBSESS OVER THOUGHTS WITHHELD. So long as they are super-liminal, however strange, he begins allowing them. Making them a symbol of his inner life would be too risky, too Jungian...so he must make a compromise and locate them within consciousness. But are they perhaps sprouting up randomly from beneath it, like a waking dream? ...but he insists on staying materialist, rational, rooted, at war with his own psychological architecture. Marx would be displeased if one of his long time bedfellows starting making open concessions to any kind of mysticism which could complicate the crusade to liberate the proletariat...but now maybe I'm being cruel. The book is stuffed full of very fine moments. When Taylor is doing the analytical business he's spot on (ENTP's are great visionary thinkers) and when he's at war with himself, he's having a sporting good time of it and so are we. (However he decides to justify or not justify his excess!)
His passages on virtual escape (Video games, pornography, commodities etc) are full of humor, detail and Baudrillard style "soft-philosophy" which seems to me the most viable kind of philosophy because we have very technical, thorough-going meditation on phenomena unique to our modern life dissected and pondered in a gleeful, ironic sometimes scathing sometimes admiring way. His musing are not quite political, not quite psychological, not quite moral, not quite comedy...imagine Socrates describing all the possible attitudes one might have towards onanistically "Knowing thyself" in a virtual era. Such musings fit a niche clearly suited to the leisurely sport of philosophy. Heidegger said "The speech of genuine thinking is by nature poetic." This book is a good specimen of the man behind it, and like kierkegaard, sometimes philosophy is more in need of a new sort of person than a new sort of thought.
I say "Keep discovering yourself" Roger Taylor, and we'll happily follow with you.
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