Inquiry in question
What follows is the transcript of an inquiry which takes itself as its object: an inquiry into its own inquiry. It opens out of a mere marking of its questioning, '?', and proceeds by questioning that mark, and the progress of its inquiry as transcription of something 'open' into marks and questions - such transcription itself marked as only one thing open to the 'writer'. Each successive attempt to transcribe into words the opening transition into 'words', 'text', 'book', from some textually marked 'context' in which the transition is open, simply leads into a questioning of each such attempted transcription, the bringing of its terms 'into question'. The first section of the inquiry closes having marked out an internal 'logical' space and time of these opening questions, coordinated around the initial question of marking a question: so many 'dimensions' of lines of questioning 'question' - in particular the external 'physical' dimension of a 'space' and 'time' in which marking or transcription is (physically) open, and a 'poetic' or figural dimension in which that 'external' physical open-ness or space provides, like the 'internal' logical space of logical, physical and poetic questions, and 'image' for
Joughin, Martin
BD Speculative Philosophy
Inquiry in question. What follows is the transcript of an inquiry which takes itself as its object: an inquiry into its own inquiry. It opens out of a mere marking of its questioning, '?', and proceeds by questioning that mark, and the progress of its inquiry as transcription of something 'open' into marks and questions - such transcription itself marked as only one thing open to the 'writer'. Each successive attempt to transcribe into words the opening transition into 'words', 'text', 'book', from some textually marked 'context' in which the transition is open, simply leads into a questioning of each such attempted transcription, the bringing of its terms 'into question'. The first section of the inquiry closes having marked out an internal 'logical' space and time of these opening questions, coordinated around the initial question of marking a question: so many 'dimensions' of lines of questioning 'question' - in particular the external 'physical' dimension of a 'space' and 'time' in which marking or transcription is (physically) open, and a 'poetic' or figural dimension in which that 'external' physical open-ness or space provides, like the 'internal' logical space of logical, physical and poetic questions, and 'image' for
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