Stimmung Resonance
“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
more like music than like concepts.” (91)— Ulmer, Heuretics
“For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear. “— Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Introduced class final project proposal assignment with these quotes,
which catalyzed connection(s) of a compelling frequency: Stimmung.
(Composed a “theory supplement” for my students, on course blog.)
— In Derrida’s reading of Ulysses, the affect-tone of the yes (laughter) is affirmed by another’s signature (event); with this he proposes another mode of understanding, regarding the “vibration” (Deleuze?) of UL’s musical expression.
— GLU provides key references to the concept regarding both Plato and Heidegger, in Internet Invention; beyond “‘atmosphere’, ‘ambiance’, ‘mood’,” this serves as a means for “attunement” in the latter’s view.
Question I posed to class (and for myself):
We ask, “what is my Stimmung, and how is it expressed / felt?”
From this, the task lies in first identifying one’s attunement — “to which frequencies?” I queried.
The aforementioned quote from Nietzsche posed the challenge for my class experiment, to not only first intuit (and be affected by) someone else’s subjective experience — beyond, given impossibility of “first-hand” access, to express the affect of their/the event. The hypothesis is to employ the unconventional potential of Stimmung in the former case, in Heidegger’s formulation, and then to attempt expression in the form of Derrida’s affirmation-event (my signature affirms the other’s past {laughter?} at present time).
In both cases, there emerges the rich phenomenon of resonance — participant no longer “reader-writer” or “receiver-sender,” but a conduit of the earlier experience-event by means of our composing in middle voice.
