Zone
More notes on Structural Force, Egoism outside of the Body.
Remote work feeds capital to a Zone.
Intergenerational power and their subversions are plugged into the Zone.
The world reflexively views the Zone as particular.
No one drags out the resident and beats them savagely to death.
We are going to continue go from that centuries old and very German thesis that consciousness does not understand an object in part, as one must understand it most completely as a part in a whole, or it does not understand the object at all, because it doesn’t seem altogether worth throwing away despite its abstract character.
The whole part is radically challenged by immediate relevance, practicality, and the smallness of day to day existence. Nonetheless, this can be taken back into our German sourdough via the notion of Dialectical Egoism. The immediate demand can be brought into the whole of the psychoanalytical notion of existence which has as its primary qualities:
excess of content
conscious intent
unconscious motive
the gaps between the said above as known via their rational analysis, which is dialectical, antagonistic and incomplete in any one particular moment
By doing this, we will show what appears to be neutral and/or random as full of potential energy for demand, demand being a high totality of all of human creation and existence in any and every moment.
Human existence appears at first to be able to break any notion of idealistic totality through its immediate existence, its smallness, its Sartrean Nausea. However, we can understand a totality of these immediate moments in various manners. One particular manner which seems like a neutral surrounding of our lives, are the actual territories in which we inhabit. The city has been both over-coded or more commonly, under-coded. This is to say, it is seen as absolute force which moves people in a particular direction and holds a particular ideology, or simply “nice” or “not nice” in most circumstances. There is a process of reflexion however, which can claim a territory for one or more particular things. Via reflexion, a neutral zone carries with it the potential to hold a set of demands or desires within it.
When we call a room a kitchen, we know we prepare food in it. Do you have a room dedicated to your well-being, as you do a kitchen or something of that nature? Well-being may require too many different things, and in fact, it may consist of a kitchen. Should you have a kitchen in every room? Probably not.
What is then, the goal of “Zone.” The goal of Zone can be said to define and to be captured by a person or group, in order to be tilted to various demands or sets of demands. In addition, it is to escape the negative demands of the outside which prevent and obstruct those who claim control or have creative access to a particular Zone. A de facto privateness comes up via zone, as through the quantity of humans within community which is required for survival, zone is defined by groups and made individual by each usage of it.
Can anyone enter Zone and obstruct your desire or demands? This is negative force, but typically inevitable. Could you be out in the wilderness and create Zone? Yes, but how long does it take you to get there. For the Tibetan Monk, Zone exists in the Himalayans. Quite a cold place for my liking! It is their Zone, not mine, luckily for me.
Zone in the family takes us a constant flow in and out of demands, people wanted for dinner, chores to be done, fun to be had. Zone in politics comes overloaded with the Idea. Eventually Trump had to get out of the chair which represented the office, but he might prefer Florida or New York more. Primarily, the president’s chair is more important as symbol than its ability to produce desire. However, it is a place where meetings can be held as the president, and its official status which holds the person as the leader of the free world makes it seem like a desiring zone. If I sit in Biden’s seat, I won’t get briefed on world events, I might get arrested. It can be said the president’s chair it is not a favorable zone for me.
In the family home, the symbol has to function to keep a set of activities flowing with and against the family, with and against the outside. A semi-permeable membrane of Zone is inevitable. By the time we are in a coffin, we can hardly care much, although the symbol is that we are dead, but we don’t care much if there is a draft.
The room I write from does not have social media scrolling in it nor television. It has an electric piano which is playing electronic music. It has this Victorian folding table which I write on and work from. We are going to get a dart board and some sort of poker table for it as well, I will paint the room eventually.
This is highly my zone. There are many zones like it, but this one is mine.