Antropofagi har tidigare dröjt sig vid Ted Chiangs novell The story of your life and others, och diskuterat ett performativt perspektiv på tid ur några olika perspektiv. Hela frågeställningen är egentligen den evigt återkommande om determinism/fri vilja och struktur/agent.
I den här ypperliga recensionen fördjupas förståelsen en smula, inte minst tack vare en Zen-anekdot:
"Once when Hyakujo delivered some Zen lectures an old man attended them, unseen by the monks. At the end of each talk when the monks left so did he. But one day he remained after the had gone, and Hyakujo asked him: Who are you?
The old man replied: I am not a human being, but I was a human being when the Kashapa Buddha preached in this world. I was a Zen master and lived on this mountain. At that time one of my students asked me whether the enlightened man is subject to the law of causation. I answered him: The enlightened man is not subject to the law of causation. For this answer evidencing a clinging to absoluteness I became a fox for five hundred rebirths, and I am still a fox. Will you save me from this condition with your Zen words and let me get out of a fox’s body? Now may I ask you: Is the enlightened man subject to the law of causation?
Hyakujo said: The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
At the words of Hyakujo the old man was enlightened. I am emancipated, he said, paying homage with a deep bow. I am no more a fox, but I have to leave my body in my dwelling place behind this mountain. Please perform my funeral as a monk. The he disappeared. The next day Hyakujo gave an order through the chief monk to prepare to attend the funeral of a monk. No one was sick in the infirmary, wondered the monks. What does our teacher mean? After dinner Hyakujo led the monks out and around the mountain. In a cave, with his staff he poked out the corpse of an old fox and then performed the ceremony of cremation.
…Mumon’s comment: The enlightened man is not subject. How can this answer make the monk a fox?
The enlightened man is at one with the law of causation. How can this answer make the fox emancipated?
To understand clearly one has to have just one eye.
Controlled or not controlled?
The same dice shows two faces.
Not controlled or controlled,
Both are a grievous error."
Hyakujo said: The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
At the words of Hyakujo the old man was enlightened. I am emancipated, he said, paying homage with a deep bow. I am no more a fox, but I have to leave my body in my dwelling place behind this mountain. Please perform my funeral as a monk. The he disappeared. The next day Hyakujo gave an order through the chief monk to prepare to attend the funeral of a monk. No one was sick in the infirmary, wondered the monks. What does our teacher mean? After dinner Hyakujo led the monks out and around the mountain. In a cave, with his staff he poked out the corpse of an old fox and then performed the ceremony of cremation.
…Mumon’s comment: The enlightened man is not subject. How can this answer make the monk a fox?
The enlightened man is at one with the law of causation. How can this answer make the fox emancipated?
To understand clearly one has to have just one eye.
Controlled or not controlled?
The same dice shows two faces.
Not controlled or controlled,
Both are a grievous error."
Antropofagi tackar för verktyget och snidar ut följande tolkning av performativt perspektiv på tid/struktur-agent:
Ett performativt perspektiv på tid innebär att agenten finner sig tillrätta i strukturen. Inte genom att ge upp agentskapet, och inte genom att förneka strukturen. Utan genom att leva verkligheten stratifierad. Genom att integrera verklighetenstratifieradinsikten i sitt innersta och i sin livsföring.
Not controlled or controlled. Both are a grievous error.
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Vem fan är så dum i huvudet att hen tolkar Story of your life som att handla om tidsresor? Cracker plz.
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