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is (like people and the world as well) not an absolute thing, but phenomena of perception. It requires expounding all the time because each person perceives life and death for himself and has a curiosity about the perceptions of others.

The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception. . . If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough. . . But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things. Wallace Stevens

is a form of experience, such as madness, illness, sexuality, and criminality which is to be recognized as a real, historical construct.

An object is a network of social relations organized or synthesized into empirical form by the complex disciplinary technology. It is also a form of experience, such as madness, illness, sexuality, and criminality. Objects are real, historical constructs like the objects of Bhaskar's realism, they are conceptand activity-dependent what Foucault calls the 'historical a priori' (Foucault 1980a:236).

is a network of social relations organized or synthesized into empirical form by the complex disciplinary technology.

is a personality. The large abalone shells, the shields covered with them... all are personalities. Decorated beams are themselves beings : Everything speaks. Roof, fire, carvings and paintings. A copper talks and grunts, demanding to be given away or destroyed: It is covered with blankets to keep it warm.

The large abalone shells,^ ^^ the shields covered with them, the decorated blankets with faces, eyes, and animal and human figures embroidered and woven into them, are all personalities.^®^ The houses and decorated beams are themselves beigns. Everything speaks roof, fire, carvings and paintings... beings.^ ®^ Everything speaks for the magical house is built not only by the chief and his people and those of the opposing phratry but also by the gods and ancestors... spirits and young initiates are welcomed and cast out by the house in person.^' (mauss 'the gift' : 43) Coppers have also a virtue which attracts other^coppers to them, as wealth attracts wealth and as dignity attracts honours, spirit-possession and good alliances.2°® In this way they live their own lives and attract other coppers.^'' One of the Kwakiutl coppers is called 'Bringer of Coppers' and the formula describes how the coppers gather around it, while the name of its owner is 'Copper-Flowing-Towards-Me'.^'^ With the Haida and Tlingit, coppers are a 'fortress' for the princess who owns them... elsewhere a chief who owns them is rendered invincible.^'* They are the 'flat divine objects' of the house. 2^° (mauss 'gift' : 44) It is impossible to discern what makes the power of the one out of the spirit and the wealth of the other... a copper talks and grunts, demandingtobegivenawayordestroyed... ^^^itiscoveredwith blankets to keep it warm just as a chief is smothered in the blankets he is to distribute. (maus 'gift' 44) EVERYTHING IS TIED TOGETHER: THINGS HAVE PERSONALITY, AND PERSONALITIES ARE IN SOME MANNER THE PERMANENT POSSESSION OF THE CLAN. TITLES, TALISMANS, COPPERS, AND SPIRITS OF CHIEFS ARE HOMONYMS AND SYNONYMS, HAVING THE SAME NATURE AND FUNCTIONEverything is tied together... things have personality, and^personalities are in some manner the, pgijnanenTpossession of the clan. Titles, talismans, coppers and spirits of chiefs are homonyms and synonyms, having the same nature and function.^^ (mauss : gift : 44) THE 'RES' CANNOT ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN THE BRUTE AND TANGIBLE THING, THE SIMPLE AND PASSIVE OBJECT OF TRANSACTION THAT IT HAS BECOME. THE BEST ETYMOLOGY SEEMS TO BE 'GIFT OR PLEASANT THING' Moreover, the res cannot originally have been the brute and tangible thing, the simple and passive object of transaction that it has become. The best etymology seems to be that which compares the word with the Sanskrit rah, ratih, meaning a gift or pleasant thing.^® The res rnustoriginally have meant that which gives a person pleasure.^' Moreover, the thing was always marked with a family seal or property mark. Hence we can understand that with things mancipi the solemn act of mancipatio created a legal bond. For even in the hands of the accipiens it still remained a factor in the family of the original owner... it remained bound to that family and likewise bound to the latest owner until he was freed by the fulfilment of his part of the contract, that is to say by the transmission of the compensating article, price or service which in its turn was binding on the original owner. (mauss 'gift' : 49) THE PLEDGE THUS GIVEN IS IN FACT IMBUED WITH THE PERSONALITY OF THE PARTNER WHO GAVE IT: IT IS IN THE HANDS OF THE RECIPIENT AND MOVES ITS DONOR TO FULFILL HIS PART OF THE CONTRACT. . . . IT IS PRESENT NOT ONLY IN THE ACTS OF MAGICAL SIGNIFICANCE, BUT IT IS PRESENT IN THE THING AS WELLThe pledge thus given is in fact imbued with the personality of the partner who gave it. The fact that it is in the hands of the recipient moves its donor to fulfil his part of the contract and buy himself back by buying the thing. Thus the nexum is in the thing used as ajpledge and not only in the magical acts or tlig^jQlenHr-fbrms of the contract, the words, oaths, ritual and handshakes^.xchanged ... it is present not only in the acts of magical significance, the tallies of which each partner keeps a share, or the joint meals where each partakes of the other's substance... it is present i

is a simple thing out of which the substance of the world consist. Without simple objects, it would be impossible to picture the world, that is, to represent it.

.Objects make up the substance of the world. That is why they cannotbe composite. . . 2.0211 If the world had no substance, then whether a proposition had sensewould depend on whether another proposition was true. . . . 2.0212 In that case we could not sketch any picture of the world (true or false). . . . Wittgenstein's idea here seems to be that without there existing a class of simple objects, it would be impossible to picture the world that is, to represent it. B

is a source of enchantment only when it is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance.

When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

is a thing which, via housewifely care, can be born of an intimate life, as opposed to indifferent objects or objects defined by geometric reality.

Objects that are cherished in this way really are born of an intimate light, and they attain to a higher degree of reality than indifferent objects, or those that are defined by geometric reality. For they produce a new reality of being, and they take their place not only in an order but in a community of order. From one object in a room to another, housewifely care weaves the ties that unite a very ancient past to the new epoch. The housewife awakens furniture that was asleep.' (poetics of space)

is a unity that requires an action of the mind which cuts off roots, melts away context. Or indeed we should never have objects or ideas or anything to talk about.

For all the objects of our manifold experience, especially for the intellectual objects, for every unity, there is an action of the mind which cuts off roots, melts away context' or indeed we should never have objects or ideas or anything to talk about. (wimstt and beardsly : 'intentional' 480)

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