Hi Scott,
I just came across this quote I like
"Besides what a few grumpy critics claim (hi Platt), postmodernism is not a
bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a
reaction to the most profound spiritual an philosphical crises of our time,
the failure of the Enlightenment"
Scott I enjoyed your critique of postmodernism and so wanted to ask you a
question. This differential mysticism sounds like postmodernism to me.
Derrida said that deconstruction often involves a way of reading that concerns
with itself with decentering- with unmasking the problematic nature of all
centers.You say that centric mysticism can be thought of SOM perspective but
the anti-SOM has been bothering me lately.
Derrida says that all Western thought behaves in a binary way, forming pairs
of opposites in which one member of the pair is priveleged, freezing the play
of the system, and marginalizing the other pair.
Lately I have been thinking that an MOQ that marginalizes SOM may be a centric
mysticism.
"Differential is more about skillful means, emphasizing
detachment by deconstructing whatever one has glommed on to"
Is there any danger in glomming on to MOQ?
Erin
SCOTT: Robert Magliola differentiates between what he calls "centric"
mysticism
from "differential" mysticism, and I'm working the differential side of
the street. Centric mysticism might be thought of as mysticism from a
SOM perspective, where there is typically some goal: union with God, for
example. Differential is more about skillful means, emphasizing
detachment by deconstructing whatever one has glommed on to. Each has
its value, though I think differential is the better tool for this
modernist-to-postmodern age.
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