On the concept and comprehensibility of freedom
Gerhard Kaučić
Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, Mediator, Freerider, born 1959, Dr. phil., age 66, 2025
Head of a Philosophical Practice in Vienna (Austria) since 1989
Anna Lydia Huber
Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, Mediator, Freerider, born 1959, MSc, age 66, 2025
Associate in the grammatological philosophical Practice since 2009 in Vienna and beyond
To contact us, please use only these emails:
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The concept of freedom and its freedoms
On the concept and comprehensibility of freedom
We are not primarily concerned with the question of “free” will. This metaphysical approach fails in all discourse alleys due to the reality of every present and present-ness. Constitutional, political, sociological, psychoanalytical. So-called free will can only ever be understood within the certain framework conditions of politics and economics.
Under transparent, constitutional and democratic conditions, we are thus able to recognize to some extent the extent of our subjectively perceived freedom and then define our so-called scope for action in relation to our economic circumstances.
Within this space of reality and cognition, we could ideally shape our lives according to our reason and rationality in accordance with our will as an appropriately free will (to the survival situation!). However, the degree of our subjectively diverse reasonableness repeatedly places a multitude of obstacles and difficulties in the way of all of us (towards each other and among ourselves). Meeting and possibly overcoming these requires all our strength.
The (in the European-influenced) philosophical discourses and trains of thought on “free will”, which are usually not grounded in reality in the philosophical traditions and legacies (up to the present day), must be reminded of Kant, that the freedom in question would have to prove itself in “objective reality” (Kant) and in the successful individual case is even necessary as the reason and first prerequisite for the existence of philosophy itself.
A free philosophy, i.e. a philosophy that realizes itself according to the respective singular free will, always has as a prerequisite a democracy in the coming (Derrida), a democracy in development and determination for the better in the sense of freedom under a constitutional democratic framework. The same applies to literature in any form of performance. Including, of course, the arts, the sciences, journalism, the speech of all.
In the course of history, or rather in the course of the often enough eruptive changes in human living conditions, there have always been smaller, more or less randomly occurring conditions of freedom (free from directly oppressive rule, free from economically oppressive poverty) in which individuals were able to surrender to thinking, to philosophizing thinking.
Examples of spaces of a not yet tangible, not yet visible democracy in the making. Even if only conceivable and recognizable in the distant future. Often enough, such lives ended through forced killing or lifelong survival. Examples of this: Socrates, Boethius, Thomas More, Rousseau, Marx, …
Freedom and crisis. A crisis of freedom.
A world of freedom! ? Which one?
Here are some crumbs towards a philosophical practice and from one of these some notes, digressions and crumbs on the possible rethinking and thinking of a “different” political theory and practice.
Without so-called free exchange on the market, our current economic system would be inconceivable.
All producers and consumers meet as free and equal and make the best decisions for them in their own specific interest in realizing their individual interests.
According to the classical school of economics, the free meeting of supply and demand on the market simultaneously serves society’s interest in the best possible supply of goods.
According to Adam Smith, this is the so-called “invisible hand” of the market.
Does this “invisible hand” really exist?
We think no. This trade relationalism is ideology, attempted mythology and also a bit of “dumbing down of the people” (?!)
The orientation towards market-specific logics of action, more or less hidden logics of exploitation and countless disparities has become more and more dominant in the course of the history of political as well as economic power and even if today Donald J. Trump has canceled the Pacific trade agreement TPP and the transatlantic free trade agreement TTIPP (officially: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) is no longer being negotiated for the time being, the “logic”(!?) of the “free market economy” will continue to be a cornerstone of the Western promise of freedom – personal freedom and individuality. With all the democratic values of Western democracies.
That’s no small amount.
But I always like to ask for whom?
Undoubtedly for a relatively large number of people in these countries with democracy and the rule of law. I’m happy to admit that. And that is important and should not be minimized. But the many thousands and millions of people who are not included here in these Western countries, even in the much-discussed Germany! What about them! Our politicians are quick to ignore them and most of us are quick to look the other way.
Little thought is given to it. And that pleases and benefits the political far right and plays with it in the social and political arena. The right is growing. Relative poverty remains and is even growing considerably here and there. In France, for example. The redistribution machine distributes upwards!!!
This feeds the fascists and racism just like the wealth multipliers everywhere. Globally. The number of billionaires worldwide is increasing by almost 20% every year!
At the same time, the rapidly increasing destruction of life resources is taking place globally. Land is becoming scarce here and there due to land grabbing. Water is becoming extremely polluted everywhere and our corporations are producing in non-European countries in a way that is not permitted in Europe, plundering states and entire societies and destroying their future basis for life and survival.
Flight movements due to wars of scarcity, power instabilities with the most atrocious excesses and no chance of improvement in this life.
And in Europe, the exploiters of the feeling of foreignness and producers of racism of all kinds towards immigrants.
So-called “democracies of freedom, equality and fraternity” are wavering and walling themselves in. The danger of right-wing populism mutating into fascism is growing and growing until the tipping point is reached. And an end to individual freedoms and the rule of law along with human rights (see Slovakia, Hungary, Georgian, Turkey, Russia,… – and: USA!(?) … – and Israel! (?) ).
Where is the freedom for all! And above all which ones?
Social freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, freedom of expression, …
Where do they exist and for whom? And for how long!
For the Roma in Slovakia or the Czech Republic? For the impoverished in Greece? For the increasingly impoverished (“Hartz IV-ers”) in Germany! For the terrorized and bombed-out Syrians? For the imprisoned or otherwise harassed and threatened political opposition thinkers in Turkey? For the war-torn(!) people in Ukraine? In Gaza? In Israel? And! and! and!
The crisis of neoliberal capitalism?
The global financial crisis caused billions and trillions in losses. Mass incomes fell, jobs were lost in large numbers, entire sectors of industry disappeared.
At the same time, sensational publications and research on climate change . The living conditions of millions of people are under threat. And everywhere and again and again, on both a small and large scale, a simple-minded or even completely ignorant policy. Just look at Germany and the neglect of the rail infrastructure for years, even decades. And. And. And.
The capitalist mode of production and consumption !!! The production and consumption model in the capitalist metropolises!!!
According to Karl Marx, interest-bearing capital is “the mother of all crazy forms” (MEW 25, 483).
Keywords: Rising mass consumption! Increasing mass consumption!!! Of limited land areas and raw materials!!!
Monocultures! Species extinction! Biodiversity! Hunger! System collapse!? Or radical cure including redirection and radical change of the global economic geography!!!????
Regulation of capitalism – a way out or a wooden path or an aporia?
What is economic freedom?
Is it in any way related to freedom of speech, freedom of the press or freedom of assembly, i.e. the freedoms that relate to the right to participate in political life and shape public policy?!
Does economic freedom satisfy basic needs that could be the prerequisite for being able to participate in cultural and political developments?
Milton Friedman is not a supporter of John Dewey’s democratic ideals. He wants the freedom of choice and by this he means the freedom to shop, i.e. to spend money (he only means those who have some!). Friedman speaks of a freedom beyond state control, i.e. of an “economic landscape” in which only and really only private forces (should) have the say. Freedom as economy and life beyond state and thus social (even communal!) control! (cf. the billionaires Thiel, Musk and others)
Freedom as the freedom to want to buy better clothes, food! Consumption! ?
The freedom to charge as much money for private schools and universities as the so-called “market” allows. In other words, the maximum allowed!
Profit maximization everywhere!!! Whether school. Whether prison. Whether career choice. Whether sperm bank.
The choice is free because it is only, almost only, a matter of money, a question of money as a matter of money management.
The others – those who have no money or too little for housing, education, food – are of no interest from this point of view.
And – the freedom to shop(!) also includes the opportunity to buy and sell other people’s livelihoods!!!
This means that the capital markets are in charge. Wall Street. They alone decide whether a company should continue to operate, where it should be able to develop, or whether it should be allowed to go under and closed down without further ado! Keyword: Rust Belt! Reagan. Thatcher. Bush. There is no industrial policy any more. Trade unions have to be toothless, if at all. No more voice. Consumers? Uninteresting. The environment! A lie of the left! See Trump, Bannon etc.
Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs call the shots. Criticism of this is unwelcome. Many are of this opinion. They support the freedom to shop!
Freedom rules where money rules !!! To paraphrase Frank Stronach, a well-known billionaire in Austria, “he who has the gold makes the rules”!
Keynes‚ theories must be reanimated. The leading role of the democratic state and higher public spending financed by a different tax policy (much higher taxation of wealth, machine tax, financial transaction taxes, Yanis Varoufakis‚ “general basic dividend”, see Der Standard Sat./Sun, March 4/5, 2017, “Maschinen, Roboter und andere Steuerpflichtige”, in: Der Standard “Kommentar der Anderen”, p. 39 etc.) to increase distributive justice on a global scale, – as a result, increased opportunities for participation in the political process for as many as possible and perhaps the chance to preserve and protect the life of the remaining species, – also and especially for the benefit of us all !!!! ( Read also: Thomas Piketty: Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert. C.H. Beck Verlag 2014 and Stephan Schulmeister: Der Weg zur Prosperität. EcoWin publishing house 2018 )
We humans also depend on the life of the many insect species. According to a new study, 80% of all insects have been wiped out in the last 20 years!!!!!
A great many philosophical practices will still be needed. … Hm! Yes, as I said, many philosophical practices will still be necessary.. Political theories and policies are all based on the axioms and values of philosophical provenances.
I would like to thank my guests for their inspiring and hopeful reflections, trains of thought and thought creations – sometimes and always on the edge of the abyss.
No reason without an abyss? Philosophical practice as a construction site with building blocks, ruins, gravel, scrap and techné and as a free experimental laboratory for thought walks in thought buildings and ruins of an archaeological nature.
And: As always, we have too little time!
Every sentence has too little time. Every sentence displaces by jumping. It displaces many other possible and necessary (!) sentences (for more, see my YouTube video on “The sentence”).
Every sentence, every word, every code drives its essence and its mischief in incommunicability!
Every sentence greets a ghost. Every sentence is a ghost.
Every sentence in every setting and every session (including those in a PP/philosophical practice).
I should always have the opportunity to explain all the psychoanalytic, economic, political and juridical implications of the above.
I refer all readers to my/our publications on the net and to the publications on paper.
The terrain of reading is abysmal(!) and unlimited!
To contact us, please use only these emails:
g.kaucic[at]chello[dot]at or gack[at]chello[dot]at
Together with the processes of history, we must think the singularity.
((( Additional remark on the following “Mundus Corpus” as an insertion and grafting:
Practice and practices: What happens in a philosophical practice like ours. What happens in a philosophical practice? What is a philosophical practice? What is philosophical practice? ( see below in this blog post and see especially above in the teaser ! ) What happens in my philosophical practice.
The compact citation context text “Corpus” here (!) is owed to a lucid, precise and concise reading accuracy and reading contemporaneity (strictly speaking only almost/nearby!), – a kind of grammatological necessity of thought!
In my grammatological philosophical practice, we do not formulate about something, not about texts (what is said / not said / thought / interpreted / written / drawn / filmed / meant / mediatized / realia of any kind) // (in relation and reference to supposed truths of reality), but we process as precisely as possible as readers of a text passage by reading it and subsequently analyzing the concrete (! ) ( and only these! ) linguistic units and perpetual incessant interrelation (!) of what is analyzed and its decoding by deconstructing as many (!) implications, references, (un)thoughtfulnesses and the thinking of the trace ( cf. teaser on grammatology and the trace:
“The trace, in which the relationship to the other emerges, expresses its possibility in the entire realm of being, which metaphysics has determined as present-being from the hidden movement of the trace.
It is necessary to think the trace before the existing. …“ Op. cit., Jacques Derrida: Grammatology, pp. 81-88, germ. ed. ).
And all of this almost in the form of “simultaneity” (!), which can almost be grasped locally – that is, in the form of maximum attention to the text currently(!) being read and in question.
After all, in a fairly and appropriate actuality and freshness of the respective now-time and as now-me (!), – that is, a bold and courageous kind of acute (!) in the time of a now and now and now as well as in the formatting of a space of the desired, ( perhaps “dreamed”! ), and as realistically at first unthought-of presence of I and me.
“face à face” )))
MUNDUS CORPUS
“The Sense of the World” (Jean-Luc Nancy)
“Responsibility of the Sense” ( in: J.-L. Nancy, Das nackte Denken, Zurich, Berlin 2014, pp. 201-213 )
“Corpus” ( cf.!, read!,- absolutely !: J. – L. Nancy ! )
“This thinking is maddening. … the repulsion of the world is the world. Such is the world of bodies. It has in itself this disarticulation, this inarticulation of the corpus.” (Corpus, p. 94) !!! Violence and the body !!! Violence and impossible thinking !!! Body-speaking !!! Touching !!! Madness !!! Delusion !!! Sense !!! Paranoia ???
“The Primacy of the Same or Narcissism” (Emmanuel Lévinas: The Trace of the Other, p. 167, p. 217, germ. ed.). “The senseless suffering” (hes., – in: Between us. Mch. 1995, p. 117ff., germ. ed.). “Touch anxiety” as the cause of the lack of a consciousness of plurality and otherness (Antje Kapust: Berührung ohne Berührung. Mch. 1999, germ. ed.).
For something to make sense, I have to be able to acquire it. To be able to acquire it through iterability. I need repetition (!). I have to learn to distinguish. I must be able to recognize it. I must be able to identify it. Appropriation processes are educational processes! Something only makes sense under this condition. I do not determine the meaning. I only desire it. I strive for what I am able to recognize. I need perspectives!
I need perspectives for a limited appropriation. I must be able to appropriate meaning and thus a conscious existence in relation to others.
In other words, based on Heidegger’s Being and Time, I must be able to live my “Being to Death”(!) as full of meaning as possible (cf. my blog post on “Charlie Hebdo”) and consciously and creatively.
A life full of meaningful moments! (cf.: John Dewey, Experience and Nature)
Deconstruction is permanently engaged in the struggle to limit violence, a violence that is inseparable from the discourse of human rights.
( see “Teaser” Blogspot-Blog 2014 ff. on the question of deconstruction, on the question: What is deconstruction? What “is” deconstruction. On the question: What is “here” deconstruction ?, – and how does deconstruction happen, how does deconstruction occur, what does the deconstructing practice do, compare blog post: “POÉSIE ENGAGÉE Sprachruf Rufsprache https://disseminationsdjayphilpraxkaucic.blogspot.com/2015/02/poesie-engagee-sprachruf-rufsprache.html?m=1
Ingenuity Invention” )
Deconstruction and/or invention and/or intervention.
Dekonstruktion und/als Invention und/als Intervention.
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ AΨYXOΛOΓIKOΣ EIΣITΩ
Medeis apsychologikos eisito
Let no one unversed in „psychoanalysis“ enter here
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ ΑΓΡΑΜΜATIKÓΣ EIΣITΩ
Medeis agrammatikos eisito
Let no one unversed in „grammatology“ enter here
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ AΦPENÓ-ΠΛHKTOΣ EIΣITΩ
Medeis aphrenoplektos eisito
Niemand ( m / f / o ), der nicht „leidenschaftlich“ ist, sollte Eintritt suchen !
No „passion“ ( cf. Nietzsche ! Rousseau, Freud, Artaud, Derrida ! ) no entree !
(( Cf. Teaser !!! Blogspot-Blog 2014 ff. ))
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ AΨYXOΛOΓIKOΣ EIΣITΩ
Medeis apsychologikos eisito
Let no one unversed in „psychoanalysis“ enter here
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ ΑΓΡΑΜΜATIKÓΣ EIΣITΩ
Medeis agrammatikos eisito
Let no one unversed in „grammatology“ enter here
P A S S I O N / passion / passages / phrenoplekt / patheticus / passionate / emotional contactions / empathy / trust / pathos / emotion / movement / motion / touching, Jacques Derrida ( „So this text has several ages. From one sentence to another it sometimes jumps for years. I could have played a game with the reader and marked the layers of an archive in colour.“ cf. quotation from „Preface“ in: Jacques Derrida: Touching/Berühren, Jean-Luc Nancy p. 6 )
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I play this game as desire and necessity and as desire need:
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ONE PERHAPS ! ALSO ! Almost ! GREAT ! LAUGHABLE ! „GESTURE“ !! ONE about TIME OF YEAR ! AND PASSIONATE !! READERS
A reader who has been faithful and passionate for decades!
see/look/reflect teasers (of the blog) and its color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s)color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s) color mark(s)!
(( small instruction / Hint(!):
The „Book of Kells„, Wittenwilers „Ring“ about, fine arts, „holy“(!) writings, medieval rare splendor copies of „Book“(!), compositions, language(s) / metaphors like sun>light>illumination>enlightenment etc.., Architecture (facades and plans), Geographical maps, globes, corrected school notebooks, shopping lists, stage directions, margin notes, secret files, confidential files, blackened files(!), >>> Arno Schmidt „Zettels Traum„(!), Lawrence Sterne „Tristram Shandy“(!), „Rom Blicke“(R. D. Brinkmann), Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic „/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/“(!!!) etc. et cetera !
All these and even more are objects, realities with reference surplus, significant and semantic surpluses/added values/added value. Additional markings as second and third level of contexts and denotation potentials. Color marking! Color markings!
Double and doubling reading! Cf. the side lines at the beginning of Heinrich Wittenwilers „Ring“. The reading including the color lines as interpretations of the second level enables whole text logic cancellations across and contrary to the first simple recording of meaning and sense of the first reading!!!
There is no literal sense/(meaning!) – those who think this succumb to the power of habit and thus to their own reading laziness.
Everything that appeals to you(!) should be read at least seven times !!!
Please always pay attention to the colour markings! Especially the markings in the teaser! An additional interpretation level, deconstruction level and reading link! ))
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„Le sens du monde“ (J.-L. Nancy)
The meaning of the world
The senses of the world
Sense Interlacements Incommunicability
Philosophical practice the enigmatic and disturbing necessity
Of communication
Grammatological Philosophical Practice the Enigmatic Necessity
of communication
!!! cf. first and foremost to the word „communication“ and to the meaning and situation in the semantic field of communication Jacques Derrida’s „signature event context“ , – in: Randgänge der Philosophie. Vienna 1988, p. 291ff. (german edition) !!!
Short Inductio on Philosophical Practice with Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil.) and Anna Lydia Huber (MSc), born ’59 Conversation, Discourse, Deconstruction
Dissertation/Doctoral thesis Gerhard Kaučić Paris Lodron University Salzburg 1986
Gerhard Kaučić: Grammatotechnè as grammatology of the “Herzgewächse” or of incommunicability. Dissertation Salzburg 1986.
https://permalink.obvsg.at/AC02072855 On Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and Hans Wollschläger’s “Herzgewächse” (novel), deconstruction of the problematic nature of communication including “illegibility” / “illisibility” (R Barthes, Hamacher, Paul de Man) … 1986
cf.:
Url, pdf, Phil. Diss. Gerhard Kaučić, Salzburg 1986
https://kaucic-huber.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Diss.1986_G.Kaucic_Grammatotechne_als_Gr.pdf
Url pdf Diss. G. Kaucic 1986 on “Internet Archive Wayback Machine”:
The trace of something must be thought before the existing! (Derrida)
Heraclitus already calls the awake thinkers those who do not “think things as they encounter them”.
” the secret of the communicative in the constantly
threatening incommunicability”
Performativity / Performativity ! ( J. Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context” / J. Butler, “Excitable Speech. A Politics of the Performative” / E. Fischer-Lichte, ‘Aesthetics of the Performative’)
Escaping the “ commented ‘ of the ’commentary”!
( cf.: § Para-Graphie : K o m m e n t a r , – in: Gerhard Kaučić: Grammatotechnè als Grammatologie der “HERZGEWÄCHSE” oder von der Inkommunikabilität. Salzburg 1986, pp. 46-71., german ed. )
Parekbase, Parabase (Schlegel, Barthes, Derrida, Cončić-Kaučić) !
Escape the reduction, the falsification, the humiliation, the castration of the “text” by the “commentary”!
The “commentary” always restricts the “text”!
Performanz / Performance !
Text politics !
Text performance / repetition / iterability / marking !
Dissemination / Idiom ! Performativity !
( cf.: § Para-Graphie : D i s s e m i n a t i o n, – in: Gerhard Kaučić: Grammatotechnè als Grammatologie der “HERZGEWÄCHSE” oder von der Inkommunikabilität. Salzburg 1986, pp. 71-74., german ed. )
Text music / text image / coloratura / voice / texture !
Text configuration
What is information? What is a sentence? What is a question? What determines a question?
Philosophical practice as overcoming fear! The eternal conflict with authority as a permanently deconstructive attempt at communication – the secret of the communicative in the constantly threatening incommunicability. Our task is to thwart the discourses of power, of domination, of authority – and every discourse implies the exercise of power! – by analyzing and deconstructing the ideologems and their codes.
Every sentence has too little time. Every sentence displaces by jumping. It displaces many other possible and necessary (!) sentences (for more see my/our YouTube video on “The sentence”).
Every sentence, every word, every code drives its being and its mischief in incommunicability!
Every sentence greets a ghost. Every sentence is a ghost.
Every sentence in every setting and every session (including those in a PP/philosophical practice).
I should/we should always have the opportunity to explain all the psychoanalytic, economic, political and juridical implications of the above.
I refer all readers to my/our publications on the net and to the publications on paper.
The terrain of reading is abysmal(!) and unlimited!
Philosophical practice
the enigmatic and disturbing necessity
of communication
undecidability ? Incommunicability ?
Emergence of the self! Markings!
S e l f s t – R e f l e c t i v i t y
Reflectivity
Self-reflectivity
Gerhard Kaučić, “§ ParaGraphie : Différance/D i f f e r ä n z”, – in: G. K.: Grammatotechne als Grammatologie der HERZGEWÄCHSE oder von der Inkommunikabilität. Salzburg 1986, pp. 74-84. (germ. ed.)
and esp:
J. Derrida, La différance, – in: “Randgänge der Philosophie”. Vienna 1988 (Passagen Verlag), pp. 29-52. (germ. ed.)
What and how would be an appropriate thinking practice today
In what >is<(!) philosophy conceivable today and through what or from where is that which we mean differently by philosophy to be practiced.
The term(!) différance questions the human being in a certain sense and thereby draws the history of life in general.
Once again to humanism as logocentrism or phonologocentrism.
Derrida shows that the traditionally hierarchical arrangement of the two components of language must be deconstructed. Right up to modern linguistics, the ideal meaning of a sign, called s i g n i f i c a t (the conception), is placed above the material carrier of the meaning, called s i g n i f i c a n t (the sound or written image). An attempt is always made to align the external signifier, the writing, with a transcendental signified.
Think of what we said earlier about religion, God and man.
See also:
However, every signified (the idea!) is (according to Derrida) “always already in the position of the signifier” (Derrida, Grammatology, p. 129, germ. ed.).
There can be no meaning and no sense that could escape the spatialization and temporalization as well as the differential play of signifier relations.
According to this definition, writing is a sign of signs, a signifier of signifiers.
This reversal is primarily intended to show that the materiality of the signifier is not added to the meaning a posteriori and externally, but vice versa, that the sense is the e f f e c t of a signification that has always already been implicit. In this way, Derrida reformulated and reconceptualized the relationship between language and writing.
Through Derrida’s transformation of the concept of writing, it goes beyond that of language and includes it.
All of this results in a completely new understanding and event of text, because it has been transformed several times.
The “essence”, the practice of deconstruction, is inherent to such a text (understanding), i.e. “written into” it (cf. Derrida, Freud and the Scene of Writing or Freud’s “Wunderblock”).
The thinking of difference/différance is the inherent practice of “deconstruction”.
This is what my dissertation is about as a philosophical practice
(( and this includes the conversation, but also my/our writing practice before and after each setting/session(!) ))
always about grasping texts (written, spoken or representations(!), e.g. of a technical, artistic, economic, political, institutional nature) in their inner structure and in their interaction with other texts.
The texts are not only to be analyzed and interpreted, but their conflictuality, their aggressiveness, their concealed content and intentions are to be unmasked through the practice of deconstruction.
What is meant is the visualization of the duality of the simultaneous presence and absence(!) of truth.
We express propositions of intentional analytical truth and thereby simultaneously suppress other possible propositions of truth or untruth.
Jacques Derrida describes the process of life with the invention of his D i f f é r a n c e
(( cf. teaser and footer in our blog ( Philosophical Practices / Politics / Disseminations Philosophical Practice G Kaučić & AL Huber
https://disseminationsdjayphilpraxkaucic.blogspot.com/2016/03/was-ist-philosophische-praxis-iii-teil-3.html?m=1 ), German and English, only visible in the Web Version )),
in which man is a special case, a unique case. Almost a coincidence, and yet from a certain distance covered by processes of a physical, chemical and then neurological nature, increasingly stringent, defined, fixed.
Where is the transition from animal to human?
That is exciting and thrilling. Is there even such a thing as drawing a line?
I ask this question without any intention of turning humans into animals.
We are animalistic, but not beastly alone. And what does animal mean here! ( in this blog, – see my blog posting “Animal Philosophy” !!! )
Animals are! Are many different individuals! And each animal is unique !!!
And some animals even have so-called human characteristics such as memory, technical ability, special skills, reasoning ability, love, communication, etc.! And sometimes even consciousness!
Jacques Derrida’s phonologocentrism means, among other things, that all humanism is logocentric and all metaphysics is humanism.
Even if most philosophers to this day do not like to hear this.
Humanism as metaphysics is the enemy of animals.
The enemy of animals and ultimately also the enemy of humans.
I can’t roll up everything here(!) now (we always do that!), take a look at my/our animal philosophy in the blog, – read Derrida’s work on it and pay attention to the “sins”(!) – catalog, – my/our red list on the “coming democracy”! (keyword “species extinction”, “climate change”, … etc.; always to be found in the appendix of each posting in red font, English and German).
If grammatology “cannot be a science of man” it is precisely because “from the outset it poses the fundamental question of the name of man” (J. Derrida, Grammatology, 1974, p. 148, germ. ed.).
This dissertation and our subsequent work, accompanied by publications on paper and online, are all about this: Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil.), Anna Lydia Huber (MSc), Jg. ’59 Gespräch, Diskurs, Dekonstruktion
Philosophical practice Vienna 1989 ff. Analysis Complication Aporia Identity Dislocation Meta-thesis Deconstruction
Cf. list of publications at: https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=wNUSN64AAAAJ&hl=de
Post scriptum:
The tasks of a future democracy/a democracy on the rise/a permanent advent/arrival of democracy/a democracy in the arrival ( Jacques Derrida ), to think the subject as „planetary“ (cf. G. Ch. Spivak, see teaser, – the teaser from my blog; note: the teaser is only visible in the web-version!), – especially concerning the great challenges of politics in the 21st century: Utopia (?!) of reflexive solidarity (Spivak),
borders of a planet (John Bellamy Foster et al. (Ed.): The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, 2011), deconstructive politics as an ideological-critical reading of the imperial archive, geopolitics, geopolitical involvement, geopolitical interest driven policy and/as value policy, power, morals and human rights, analysis of power, gender and governmentality, teletechnology, political bodies, complexities of rule, citizenship, parliamentarianism, peace policy, institution building and institution maintenance, economically correct and fair redistribution of social wealth, proper management of Migration (Flüchtlinge, Refugees), …
proper handling of migration (refugees), migration and capitalism, Postkolonialismus, neocolonialism, postcolonialism, Kolonialisierung auf allen Ebenen, Kolonialismus, Rassismus, Faschismus, Neo – Kolonialismus, Ökonomismus, Imperialismus,
Ökonomischer Imperialismus (angeleitet durch die Neue Institutionenökonomik, die Transaktionskostenökonomik und die Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie; im Gefolge des New Public Management treten an die Stelle von Handeln nach Maßgabe professioneller Ethiken Kontraktmanagement mit Zielvereinbarungen und anstelle einer Berufsethik Qualitätsmanagement und Benchmarking samt Controlling und Leistungsrechnung mit all ihren Schattenseiten und ungeplanten Nebenwirkungen, – vgl. Richard Münch: Globale Eliten, lokale Autoritäten, Frf. 2009, Suhrkamp, S. 18 vv.ff.),
the world as environment and its destruction, manmade environmental disasters, shipping, esp. container shipping, pollution of oceans, pollution of soil, greenhouse gases, temperature rise, shortage of resources, prosperity gap,
population density, urban development ( e.g. „Gängeviertel“ in Hamburg, the initiative „Komm in die Gänge“ stands for discourse and practice of a different (!) form of urban development and is an example and symbol that gives hope against gentrification and the destruction of old buildings ),
urban development towards a green city, urban philosophy, reddening of the city, city of dreams, madness and society, madness and city, city and sexuality, desire and city, city as text, city and writing, city as writing, the city and the divided I, the city and the power, the city and the political, the city as a mechanism of discipline, the city as a social testing lab, the city and the philosophical practice with many practices, the world as a city and the other, water wars, religious wars, climate change, climate consequences, global warming, nuclear relicts, climate wars, climate catastrophes, civil wars, „ethnic cleansing“ (!), genocide, violent conflicts, social questions, ecological questions, planetary principle, tradition history, the question of a global government (!?), social catastrophes, terrorism, natural disasters, migration, unstable states, poverty, wealth, corruption, media policy and presence-ideologies, war and non-war, world order and biopolicy, weapon development, arms delivery, violent and oppressive power politics, religious fanaticism, party political fanaticism, terrorism, biodiversity, standardization, factory farming, animal factories, animal consumption, „meat production“!, animal rights, animal philosophy,
„animal turn“ (vgl. Anne Peters, Tier-Recht im Zeitalter des Menschen, – in: Renn/Scherer (Hg.), Das Anthropozän. Zum Stand der Dinge. Berlin 2015, S. 67ff.),
ethical norms, euthanasia, terminal care, aging, health and sports, sports and age, ethics and medicine, cyber war, cyber crime, technology and space, political demarcation, deterritorialization, tourism, mass media, mass mediality, neoliberalization of the subjects, power,
truth and passion (vgl.: Gabriele Michalitsch: Die neoliberale Domestizierung des Subjekts. Von den Leidenschaften zum Kalkül. Campus Verlag, Frankf. a. M. 2006, bes. S. 29ff. und S. 101ff.),
sex labour, difference and the shaping of the social ( Antke Engel: Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie. Queere kulturelle Politiken im Neoliberalismus. Bielefeld 2009, S. 138ff. ),
automobility, digitalia and upbringing, education, unemployment, debt crisis, failing of democratization, neglect of the common good,
production and consumption (David Harvey), globalized consumption, market fanaticism, power of the market, democratization of the market, power of the globally operating financial markets, education, social policy, urban policy, policy of affordable housing, youth unemployment, social inequality, exclusion, individuality, sovereignty, liberalism, egalitarianism, limits of growth, mobility, traffic and communication, ecology, freedom, justice, interests of corporate groups, turbo-capitalism, global tax culture, international tax evasion, tax fraud, Drogierungsverhalten, drug laws, drug culture,
the own and the foreign, fascism, antisemitism, racism, sexism, human trafficking,
modern slavery (cf.: Kevin Bales, dt. Üs: „Die neue Sklaverei“, engl. V.: K. B., „Disposable People. New Slavery in the Global Economy“ und Hanns Wienold ),
„Neger, Rasse, Rassen-Subjekt, Rassismus, Schwarze Vernunft, Versklavung, Sklaverei, Massenversklavung in der Geschichte gestern heute morgen, das Rassensubjekt/Negro, race, racial subject, racism, black reason, enslavement, slavery, mass slavery in history, yesterday – today – tomorrow, the racial subject“
((cf.: Achille Mbembe: Critique de la raison nègre. Paris 2013 ( Orig. fr. ). Achille Mbembe: Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press Books 2017 (transl., Laurent Dubois). Achille Mbembe: Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft. Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2014 (ÜS aus d. Franz., Michael Bischoff). )),
arms trade, private purchase of weapons, possession of weapons, increase in complexity, knowledge generation, urbanization and population growth, democracy deficit, sustainability crisis, green energy, energy regime, energy crisis, legitimization crisis, territoriality, agricultural policy, fishing policy, famine (cf. Jean Ziegler),
famine and capitalism, „the right to food“
(( human right, UN-social covenant, Article 11 (1) and (2); human dignity ( primary normative principle of human rights, ethical principle, „dignitas“ (Cicero), the „idea of the good“ (Plato), fundamental „equal worth of all human beings“ (Kant), protection of the human dignity in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union )),
need of land, land grabbing, land robbery, justice, human rights, decolonization of thinking, policy of displacement, solidarity across class, race, and national boundaries (Mohanty, passim),
just policy as a policy of strengthening the weak
(( zum planetarischen Subjekt cf. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten – Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet (hg. v. Willi Goetschel engl./dt.). Wien 2013, 2. Aufl., Passagen Verlag, S. 49vv.ff.
and Charles Taylor: Multiculturalism and the „Politics of Recognition“. Princeton 1994, p. 28 ))
Philosophischer Salon Gerhard Kaučić Djay PhilPrax & Anna Lydia Huber Gasometer Wien
Philosophical Lounge / Philosophischer Salon G Kaucic & AL Huber Vienna, Austria, – Gerhard Kaučić (*1959), head of a philosophical practice for 36 years in Vienna ( 1989-2025 ff.)
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Philosophische Praxis
GESPRÄCHE sind EREIGNISSE als TEXT
cf. Jacques Derrida, Signatur Ereignis Kontext, – in: Randgänge der Philosophie, Wien 1988, S. 291-314 ( Französische Originalausgabe: Marges de la philosophie, Paris 1972 )
Translation into English, Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil., b. 1959), European Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, Translator, Freerider , Europäischer Philosoph, Philosophische Praxis/Praktische Philosophie, Sprachanalytische Philosophie, Dekonstruktion, PP Wien, Österreich, Europa
Gerhard Kaučić, Alter 66, 2025, Anna Lydia Huber, age 66, 2025
Philosoph:in des Denkens der „différance“ (cf. J. Derrida, La dissémination. Collection „Tel Quel“ aux Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1972)
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Gegenwartsphilosophie
Contemporary Philosophy
Gerhard Kaučić & Anna Lydia Huber ( geb. 1959) Philosophische Praxis 1989 ff.
Anna Lydia Huber
Philosophin, Feministin, Mediatorin, Autorin, Freerider:in, geboren 1959, MSc, Alter 66, 2025
( Mitarbeiterin in der grammatologisch-philosophischen Praxis seit 2009 in Wien und darüber hinaus )
( Associate in the grammatological-philosophical practice since 2009 in Vienna and beyond )
Gerhard Kaučić
Philosoph, Feminist, Mediator, Autor, Freerider, geboren 1959, Dr. phil., Alter 66, 2025
( Leiter (seit 1989) der Philosophischen Praxis Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil.) & Anna Lydia Huber (MSc) )
( Head (since 1989) of the Philosophical Practice Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil.) & Anna Lydia Huber (MSc) )
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Narratives, Reports, Analyses, Reflections from the Practice/from my/our Philosophical Practice
Vienna 36 years of practice jubilee (1989-2025 ff.) jubilee 36 years PP 2025
Discourses, analyses, descriptions, critiques, explanations inevitably always fall under the category „commentary„.
Comments are always something added. They try to approach a thing, an event, an institution, an action, in short, a text in any form, even if it is music. Comments try to suspend something. This always fails. Comments create a displacement, a repression as well. And with time they often cover up the thing itself.
Why?!
The „commentary“ limits the open semantic game with the means of identity, repetition and the temptation to represent the same. In this way it makes itself a mechanism of control and order by restricting and delimiting discourse and trying to establish unambiguity.
A translation is never a replacement ! Every setting is already a translation of the thought and the unthought. A translation changes the place, shifts and changes and is thus always a different text.
Only an approximate signified can be saved over(!) this way.
Every reading ( even „conversations“ must be read! ) must first produce a significant structure.
There is no criterion for the identity of the meaning of an expression: the interpretation becomes in the scientific sense a matter of undecidability, which does not mean that one could and should not temporarily quasi-fix and evaluate it in a passagere consent of many readers.
So-called „islands of understanding“ of temporary text configurations!
Understanding also in the sense of: a small or larger group of discourse participants „stands“(!) temporarily on temporarily secured „understanding“ – or understanding – ground!
This reason for understanding, this „territory“ of limited (temporally and spatially) understanding, the image of temporary text configurations, the image of standing behind the mirror as „standing“ in the mirror, – a mirror of distortions and performances, a mirror of originally unoriginal transformations, – a mirror that gives off the image (! ) for our language, – our language as graphically marked poetics of communication, – literally ! (See J. Derrida, La dissémination, p. 350 and passim)
The commentary sets the author as the supreme principle of the order of discourse (vg. M. Foucault, Ordnung des Diskurses) and generates its authorities.
„We“(!) represent the task of disseminal critical communication as an open text of a writing, escaping exegesis and the re-presentation of the commentary.
The task is also to be expressed in such a way that „the speech is first as good and then better understood as its author“ (Schleiermacher, Hermeneutik und Kritik, p. 94).
For us, the only critique to be accepted is the permanently critical critique, i.e. a permanently deconstructing critique whose object is the writable of the text, a permanently multiplying text.
„A signifier is, from the outset, the possibility of its own repetition, its own image or its similarity to itself. This is the condition of its ideality. What identifies it as a signifier and as such gives it its function and relates it to a signified can never be a ‚unique and special reality‘ for the same reasons. From the moment the sign appears, that is, from ever since, there is no possibility of finding the pure ‚reality‘, ‚uniqueness‘, and ’specialness‘.” (Derrida, Grammatology, p. 165, germ. ed.)
The authority of the Logos, the commentary, the dominion of the interpretation of scripture nailed to its origins has for some time been exposed to the critical criticism of deconstruction and thus the chance of democracy in the coming (Derrida).
All this points to a radical possibility that cannot be thought of by any single science or abstract discipline (Derrida, Grammatologie, 168f., german edition).
Intertextuality and the underlying multiplicity of codes is in principle unlimited and cannot be limited.The resulting deconstructive textualities and their connotation texture cannot be included or even determined by any context.
The “text” has ceased to be an object in itself. The permanently absent presence of
I n t e r t e x t u a l i t y (this applies to every text, and has done since time immemorial), in which the power of the break with its contexts as a sum of never fully present presences has always been structurally immanent in every sign of writing, has always determined writing – writing without origin and destination (arche, telos).
Practice of d i f f é r a n c e ! ! !
European Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, deconstructed Hegelian, Translator, Mediator, Freerider, Bicycle Traveller, Enduro Biker, Ecomobilist, Survivor, Philosophical Practitioner/Practical Philosophy, Analytical Philosophy of Language, Deconstruction, Philosophical Practice Vienna Austria Europe ))
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
Covid 19 Roman Text Welt Gedicht
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Adventure Philosophy! AN ANNIVERSARY EVERY YEAR / LIVING CONSCIOUSLY EVERY YEAR …………… Adventure Philosophy ……. Adventure Life !!!
……………………………………… Grammatological practice, philosophical practice, philosophy, what is philosophy, understanding, desire, knotting, knots of life and writing and of life as writing, semiology becomes grammatology, philosophy as science, differ/a/nce, Socratism as stultification, theoria as the highest form of practice. ……………………………………………….
Writing (cf. teaser), language, the sentence, the word. Every sentence is a leap!
Personal history and general history; language consciousness unconsciousness; what does this have to do with general history, experience, phenomenology (e.g. that of Merleau-Ponty), desire (e.g. Freud, e.g. Lacan, e.g. Melanie Klein), processing, reality, „psychic reality“ (Freud) (?!) ……………………………………………………..
LANGUAGE, THINKING, PHILOSOPHY, UBW: …………. HOSPITALITY PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE ……
Sprache, Denken, Philosophie, Ubw: …………. Gastfreundschaft Philosophische Praxis ……
SPRACHE, DENKEN, PHILOSOPHIE, UBW: …………. GASTFREUNDSCHAFT PHILOSOPHISCHE PRAXIS …
……………………………………………………………………….. Gastfreundschaft Philosophische Praxis ……………………………………………………………………. ich versuche
……………………………………………………………………. I try to explain why I answer requests for lectures, seminars or discussions permanently and persistently (almost) in the negative; my grammatological philosophical practice requires deconstruction. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… And this requires ruthlessness, independence and the utmost attention! …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..To a person to whom you want to be able to listen and whose words you want to be able to perceive, in all openness, to such a person you should want to and be able to develop a love, a passion, or at least an affection.
The body should not only not be ignored, but should be perceived and valued with an open mind – in all its frailty, fragility and vulnerability! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Body also means voice, color of voice, tone of voice, rhythm, tempo, gesture, movement, face, eyes, looks, expression, etc. ……………………………………………………. the body is something beautiful, – …………… …………………………………………………….
(art shows us the body, as do traditional tribal cultures in Africa, Australia and America; people enjoy the body as text and often „describe“ it with tattoos), ……………………………………………………., – today
and in earlier cultures. …………………………………………………….
The body is the basis for any structurality of successful intellectual intimacy of any philosophical practice as conversation.
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Grammatological Philosophical Practice, Gerhard Kaucic / Djay PhilPrax & Anna Lydia Huber Vienna
Philosophical practitioners, grammatologists, authors, cyclists, ecomobilists, the philosopher as cyclist, the philosopher as bicyclist, the philosopher as traveler, the philosopher as agitated and mover, the philosopher as scout ……. track ……. trace ……. Grammatology … Deconstruction
Freerider, enduro biker (s works), mountain biker, touring cyclist, Gerhard Kaučić / Djay PhilPrax (*1959), philosopher, , – philosophical practitioner, grammatologist, writer, author, – cyclist, mountain biker, racing cyclist, folding bike cyclist, ecomobilist, –
the philosopher as cyclist, the philosopher as bicyclist, the philosopher as traveler, the philosopher as agitated and mover, the philosopher as scout ……. track ……. trace ……. Grammatology ………. Deconstruction
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Grammatological Philosophical Practice Dr. Gerhard Kaucic / Djay PhilPrax ( born 1959, author, philosopher, PP since 1989 ) Conversation, analysis, discourse, problematization, identity dislocation, subjectivation, formalization, folding, complication, aporia, deconstruction
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TALKS are EVENTS as TEXT
cf. Jacques Derrida, Signatur Ereignis Kontext, – in: Randgänge der Philosophie, Vienna 1988, pp. 291-314 ( original French edition: Marges de la philosophie, Paris 1972 )
Translation into English, Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil., b. 1959), European Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, Translator, Freerider , European Philosopher, Philosophical Practice/Practical Philosophy, Language Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, PP Vienna, Austria, Europe
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36 years Head of Philosophical Practice Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil.) & Anna Lydia Huber (MSc)
Philosophical Practice Vienna, G Kaučić & A L Huber 1989 ff.
Deconstruction enables the relationship to the Other, the relationship to the Other (perhaps) enables deconstruction. The encounter with the Other makes me responsible for the singularity of the Other. For the unpredictability of the Other in being different.
I try to take the other as the other is and I try to recognize what the other is or what it can tell me (could tell me about my otherness). The deconstructive mindset makes me different and an Other.
Perhaps I encounter the Other in a more “real” way, perhaps that means more honestly, perhaps more ethically(!). I’ll give it a try.
G K & A L H To contact us use only this email: gack[at]chello.at
Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic (author, writer, philosopher, Vienna, Austria),
(“GACK” = Anna Lydia Huber and Gerhard Kaucic )
born 1959 in Austria, live in Vienna.
He grew up in Salzburg, she in Falkenhof (Mühlviertel), Linz (Upper Austria), he/she Paris and Zell am See and he as well as in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer (Salzburg) and Kufstein (Tyrol).
Both studied comparative literature, history, philosophy and linguistics in Salzburg and Paris, writers and translators since 1983. Numerous adventure trips by bicycle.
1989 Founded a “Grammatological Philosophical Practice” in Salzburg, Obertrum am See and Vienna.
1989 ff. Publication of a ( grammatological ) journal ( Die Grüne F Abyss ) for literature, culture and politics.
Representative of “Viennese postmodernism”, a Viennese variant of “deconstruction” (Jacques Derrida). Narrator, poet, translator, novelist and cultural theorist.
Authors of a deconstruction novel playing on different levels of language, reality and consciousness ( Passagen Vlg. 7 vols. planned, vol. V published 2007 ).
Essays on topics such as writing, grammatology, feminism, cloning, ecology, Japan, Judaism, Arabic culture and literature, religion, Kabbalah, music, architecture, film, network society, sport, transportation, politics, sexuality, philosophical practice, literary theory, postmodernism, semiotics, rationalism, constructivism, deconstruction, différance, psychoanalysis, Kant, Hamann, Nietzsche, Freud, Wollschläger, Derrida, etc.
A big thank you to my practice visitors! 36 years of philosophical practice Gerhard Kaucic
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Many thanks to my practice visitors! 36 Years of Philosophical Practice Gerhard Kaucic und Anna Lydia Huber
( German / English )
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[ Before you write to me/us, before you think about coming to us, please try to think and reflect in your own way: ………What is philosophy? … What is philosophical … “practice” ? …….What is it ? ……. What is “is” ? …. “What” “is” a “question” ? …… What is its precondition?…What causes it?…. Where does it develop from? … …
Which “contexts” lead to what we call a “question”? … Under what circumstances, in what situation, by whom, with what intentions and on the basis of what tacit and unquestioned presuppositions and on the basis of what retentions does what we call “questioning” or something like “the politics of questioning” arise? ) And ! – Is … “thinking” …asking !?…Does “philosophical practice” answer … Questions…?…!… Does … “Philosophy” … to questions ? …
“Derrière le miroir” (Jacques Derrida) ……..” Semeion Aoristicon“…..” /S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/ “ (Concic-Kaucic) ]
An open letter to people who want to come to my Philosophical Practice :
Dear people ,
dear interested people ( to avoid misunderstandings ! ),
whoever is dreaming of coming to my practice, – I am not a life – coach ! I am not a “ life – coach ” ! ( life advisor / life consultant / life counsellor / lifestyle consultant / teacher )
I do not feel responsible for that ! With the request for understanding.
What happens in my philosophical practice ?
There are many practices and each one is different.
I do not see myself as a “life counselor” or coach.
My practice is more concerned with theory-saturated or at least theory-interested concerns and my task is to deconstruct these theories or their carriers (i.e. my conversation partners, clients or guests), i.e. among other things to lead these/their theories into aporia and thus to unlock the thinking of my conversation partners, which also means to free these people, who are usually very theory-trained, for something new.
Yours sincerely
Gerhard Kaucic
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DR. GERHARD KAUČIĆ / DJAY PHILPRAX (JG. 1959) LEITER EINER PHILOSOPHISCHEN PRAXIS SEIT 1989
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Philosophical Practices / Politics / Disseminations …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Unsere Aufgabe ist es, die Diskurse der Macht, der Herrschaft, der Autorität – und jeder Diskurs impliziert Machtausübung ! – zu durchkreuzen, logothetisch (im Sinn der Schaffung einer neuen Sprache / einer anderen Sprachverwendung) zu disseminieren, indem wir deren Intertextualitäten, die Kreuzungspunkte vieler anderer Texte in einem jeden Text in viele heterogene Teile auseinander treiben. Der Intertextualität zugrunde liegt die Multiplizität der Codes, die grundsätzlich unbeschränkt ist. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Mise-en-Abyme ……………………………………. mise en abîme ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Abyssos …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. intertextuelle Strukturen als die „Natur“ der Sprache ………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. This reason of understanding, limited by „territory“ (temporally and spatially), the image of temporary textual-configurations ( mise en abyme, picture in picture in picture…), „picture“ as a metaphor of re-flection, the picture of the mirror without tinfoil, the picture of standing behind the mirror as „standing“ in the mirror, – a mirror of distortion and performance/performation (!), a mirror of the initial transformation without origin, – a mirror, which gives the picture ( away ! ?!) for our language, – our language as graphically marked poetics of communication, – literally ! (see J. Derrida, La dissémination, p. 350 und passim) ……………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Jede Lektüre ( auch „Gespräche“ müssen gelesen werden! Gehörtes ist gehört worden und in der verstehenden Verstandestätigkeit „gelesen“ worden. Aus-gelesen! Ausgewählt! Aus-sortiert! Aus der gehörten „Wirklichkeit“ er-hört und ent-hört, ver-hört, verwirklicht, verkettet, sprachverkoppelt, verlesen!, zusammen-ge-lesen!, zusammengesammelt, ver-sammelt, ge-doublet, ge-setzt, produktiv ausgelesen! ) muß erst eine signifikante Struktur produzieren. Es gibt kein Kriterium für die Identität des Sinns eines Ausdrucks: die Interpretation wird im wissenschaftlichen Sinne eine Sache der Unentscheidbarkeit, was nicht gleich heißt, daß man sie nicht in einem passageren Einverständnis vieler LeserInnen vorübergehend quasi-fixieren und ver- und bewerten könnte und sollte. Sogenannte „Verstehens-Inseln“ temporärer Textkonfigurationen! Ver-stehen auch im Sinne von: eine kleine oder größere Gruppe von Diskurspartizipanten „steht“(!) temporär auf temporär gesichertem „Verstehens“- bzw Verständnis-Grund! ………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Dieser Verständnisgrund, dieses „Territorium“ begrenzten (zeitlich und räumlich) Verstehens, das Bildnis temporärer Textkonfigurationen ( mise en abime, Bild im Bild im Bild…), „Bild“ für die Metapher der Re-flexion, das Bild vom Spiegel ohne Stanniol, das Bild vom hinter dem Spiegel stehen als in dem Spiegel „stehen“, – ein Spiegel der Verzerrungen und Performungen, ein Spiegel der ursprünglich ursprungslosen Verwandlungen, – ein Spiegel, der das Bild ab-gibt (!) für unsere Sprache, – unsere Sprache als graphisch markierte Poetik der Kommunikation, – buch-stäblich ! (Vgl. J. Derrida, La dissémination, p. 350 und passim) ………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Philosophical Practices / Politics / Disseminations …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Unsere Aufgabe ist es, die Diskurse der Macht, der Herrschaft, der Autorität – und jeder Diskurs impliziert Machtausübung ! – zu durchkreuzen, logothetisch ( im Sinn der Schaffung einer neuen Sprache / einer anderen Sprachverwendung / einer intensivierten Wahrnehmung / einer komplexeren Lesbarkeit ) zu disseminieren, indem wir deren Intertextualitäten, die Kreuzungspunkte vieler anderer Texte in einem jeden Text in viele heterogene Teile auseinander treiben. Der Intertextualität zugrunde liegt die Multiplizität der Codes, die grundsätzlich unbeschränkt ist. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The intertextuality and its underlying multiplicity of codes is principally unlimited and unlimitable. The growing deconstruction – textualities and their texture of connotation are not includable or even determinable by any context. ……………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. More complex readability ! More complicated readability of the world ! Intensified perception ! ! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……….. ……….. To contact me, please use only this email: g.kaucic[at]chello.at ……… ………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Jedes Jahr ein Jubiläum / Jedes Jahr bewußt leben
Gegenwartsphilosophie
Adventure Philosophy!
Philosophische Praxis
Gerhard Kaučić / Djay PhilPrax, Wien ( Dr. phil. ), Philosophical Practitioner, Writer
philosophical practices face à face
b. 1959, Philosopher, Writer, 66, 2025
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
Titel von Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić bei Passagen
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
S/E/M/EI/O/N/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON II
oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns
Reihe Passagen Literaturprogramm
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON ist ein siebenbändiger Großtext, eine disseminative Lekritüre, dessen zweiter Band der Dekonstruktion von ‚Finnegans-Wake‘ gewidmet ist. Große Literatur ist nicht einfach nur Sprache, die bis zur Grenze des Möglichen mit Sinn geladen ist, wie Ezra Pound meinte, James Joyce verwirklichte, Arno Schmidt und Hans Wollschläger fortführten, sondern sie ist Schrift im Sinne Jacques Derridas, die diese Grenze ständig verschiebt, verdichtet, entstellt. Der Text besteht aus vielen Buchstaben, aus sehr vielen – und jeder Buchstabe ist ein ganzes Universum an Bedeutungen – mehr noch – an „Zeichen“. Jedes dieser Zeichen ist in Bezug auf sich „selbst“ und in Bezug auf alle anderen Zeichen zu setzen und zu lesen. Kein Zeichen darf nicht gelesen werden. Wie im ‚Book of Kells‘ oder den Handschriften des alten Orients in der „untergegangenen“ Bibliothek Sarajewo.
Dieser Grenzgang durch die Felder von Literatur, Theorie, Informatik, Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Sprachen arbeitet in und mit allen Überlieferungen des Orients, des alten Europa, der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften und Literaturen sowie der postmodernen Theorie.
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
S/E/M/EI/O/N/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON III
oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns
Reihe Passagen Literaturprogramm
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/ ist ein siebenbändiger Großtext, eine disseminative Lekritüre, dessen dritter Band der Dekonstruktion von Wissenschaft und Theorie gewidmet ist. Große Literatur ist nicht einfach nur Sprache, die bis zur Grenze des Möglichen mit Sinn geladen ist, wie Ezra Pound meinte, James Joyce verwirklichte, Arno Schmidt und Hans Wollschläger fortführten, sondern sie ist Schrift im Sinne Jaques Derridas, die diese Grenze ständig verschiebt, verdichtet, entstellt. Konzis arbeitet Inspektor Sem auf dem Strich vor dem Gesetz. Telquel die Bannmeile Europa, Sucht und Seuche, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit, Mikroben, Gene, Spuren zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns.
Dieser Grenzgang durch die Felder von Literatur, Theorie, Informatik, Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Sprachen arbeitet in und mit allen Überlieferungen des Orients, des alten Europa, der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften und Literaturen, sowie der postmodernen Theorie.
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
S/E/M/EI/O/N/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON I
oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns
Reihe Passagen Literaturprogramm
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/ ist ein siebenbändiger Großtext, eine disseminative Lekritüre, dessen erster Band der Dekonstruktion von Religionen und Mythologien gewidmet ist. Große Literatur ist nicht einfach nur Sprache, die bis zur Grenze des Möglichen mit Sinn geladen ist, wie Ezra Pound meinte, James Joyce verwirklichte, Arno Schmidt und Hans Wollschläger fortführten, sondern sie ist Schrift im Sinne Jacques Derridas, die diese Grenze ständig verschiebt, verdichtet, entstellt.
Dieser Text schreibt in sich einen Roman, ein Gedicht, ein Epos auch. Die Geschichte ist ein Krimi rund um den Helden Sam. Eine Geschichte ein Ro man zum letzten Helden, zum ersten Helden.
„Es“ ist „Ain Traum Booch“ – wie der „Unter-Titel“ sagt. Dieser Grenzgang durch die Felder von Literatur, Theorie, Informatik, Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Sprachen arbeitet in und mit allen Überlieferungen des Orients, des alten Europa, der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften und Literaturen sowie der postmodernen Theorie.
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
S/E/M/EI/O/N/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON IV
oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns
Reihe Passagen Literaturprogramm
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON ist ein siebenbändiger Großtext, eine disseminative Lekritüre, dessen vierter Band der Dekonstruktion von Sexualität und Sexualisationsprozessen gewidmet ist. Große Literatur ist nicht einfach nur Sprache, die bis zur Grenze des Möglichen mit Sinn geladen ist, wie Ezra Pound meinte, James Joyce verwirklichte, Arno Schmidt, Hans Wollschläger und Oswald Wiener fortführten, sondern sie ist eine Schrift im Sinne Jacques Derridas, die diese Grenze ständig verschiebt, verdichtet und entstellt.
Inspektor Sem dekonstruiert Rhetoriken, Sexualanthropologien, Psychagogien, erfindet Schnittstellen, Codes von Liebesrelationen, Liebesmodellen, Geschlechterbeziehungen, decouvriert Paradigmen von Geschlechterdifferenz. Differenz zwischen Liebe und Tod.
Dieser Grenzgang durch die Felder von Literatur, Theorie, Informatik, Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Sprachen arbeitet in und mit Überlieferungen des Orients, des alten Europa, der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften und Literaturen sowie der postmodernen Theorie.
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
Gerhard Anna Cončić-Kaučić
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON V
oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns
Reihe Passagen Literaturprogramm
Mit dem fünften Band von ‚S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/ oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns‘ erscheint ein weiterer Text in der Reihe zur Autobiographie des Agenten Sem. Sem, Privatdetektiv, Inspektor, Geheimagent, ist Akteur im System Sprache. Die Schrift im Sinne Jacques Derridas ist sein Medium und auszuspionierendes geheimdienstliches Operationsfeld. Das „Echelon-Projekt“ repräsentiert als Ergebnis die Matrix eines großen Lauschangriffs auf das Humanum schlechthin: Identität, Körper, Reproduktion, Sexualität, Macht, Gewalt, Repräsentation, Sprache, Semiotik, Gedächtnis, Wissen, Archiv. Zugleich ist dieser Text vielleicht die Erfüllung der Forderung von Helmut Heissenbüttl nach einer Literatur für intellektuelle LeserInnen und eine Liebeserklärung an Jacques Derrida.
Gerhard-Anna Concic-Kaucic, geboren 1959, Schriftsteller, Wien.
In English:
CORONA WHEELING CROWNING
Covidity Virality Virtuality Mediality Metahumanoidity ?!
The leap. Leaving the book. The production, the emancipation, the liberation of writing.
……………………. Semeion Aoristicon oder zur Autobiographie Sem Schauns …………………..
……. THE SENTENCE ………. the jump ……… the set ……. the leap o f …. The LEAVING of
the BOOK ……….. ?!
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/
I ask if Sem VI is not my / our blog composition !?!
I ask (me / us) if Sem VII is not my / our blog.
I ask if my/our blog will not be Sem VI and Sem VII?
And shall be!
Or must be?
Already is, will be or even must be and will have to be !?!
The set. The leaving of the book.
The production, the emancipation, the liberation of the writing.
Semeion Aoristicon or to the autobiography of Sem Schauns
……. THE SET …….. THE LEAVING OF THE BOOK …….. !?
/S/E/M/EI/ON/ /A/OR/IST/I/CON/
Psychoanalyse, Sprachanalytische Philosophie, das Unbewußte
Die Sprache, das Sprechen, das Unbewußte (Ubw)
Der Satz und die Philosophie
GESPRÄCHE sind EREIGNISSE als TEXT
cf. Jacques Derrida, Signatur Ereignis Kontext, – in: Randgänge der Philosophie, Wien 1988, S. 291-314 ( Französische Originalausgabe: Marges de la philosophie, Paris 1972 )
Philosophical Practice Vienna 1989 ff. Analysis Complication Aporia Identity Dislocation Meta-thesis Deconstruction
Cf. list of publications at: https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=wNUSN64AAAAJ&hl=de
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Projekte / Projects (1989 – 2025 ff.) 36 Jahre Philosophische Praxis Wien GK & ALH
P.s.:
Gerhard Kaučić
(Mountain Bikers, Freeriders, Turbo Levo s works)
Anna Lydia Huber
Trailen auf den und auf dem Kahlenberg (Wien, Weidring, Klosterneuburg). Dornröschentrail, Südtiroler Uphill-Trail etc. Wir hatten einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2025. Ich hoff, Ihr auch.
We are trailing on the Kahlenberg. Dornröschentrail, South Tyrolean Uphill Trail etc. We had a good start to the year 2025. I hope you did too.
Gerhard Anna (66) up and down the Kahlenberg in fog and light snow flurries, – 3 degrees Celsius
Gerhard Kaučić
(Mountain Bikers, Freeriders, Turbo Levo s works)
Anna Lydia Huber
Trailen auf den und auf dem Kahlenberg. Dornröschentrail, Südtiroler Uphill-Trail etc. Wir hatten einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2025. Ich hoff, Ihr auch.
Gerhard Anna (66) auf den und auf dem Kahlenberg im Nebel und bei leichtem Schneegestöber, – 3 Grad Celsius
Trailen auf den und auf dem Kahlenberg (Wien). Dornröschentrail, Südtiroler Uphill-Trail etc. Wir hatten einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2025. Ich hoff, Ihr auch.
We are trailing on the Kahlenberg. Dornröschentrail, South Tyrolean Uphill Trail etc. We had a good start to the year 2025. I hope you did too.
Gerhard Anna (66) auf den und auf dem Kahlenberg im Nebel und bei leichtem Schneegestöber, – 3 Grad Celsius
Gerhard Anna (66) up and down the Kahlenberg in fog and light snow flurries, – 3 degrees Celsius
To contact us please use only this email: g.kaucic[at]chello.at
Winter-Biker / Winter bikers
Winter-Biker / Winter bikers
Gerhard Kaučić
(Dr. phil., b. 1959), European Philosopher, Writer, Freerider
Winter-Biker:in / Winter bikers
Anna Lydia Huber
(MSc, b. 1959), European Philosopher, Writer, Freerider
Gerhard Kaučić (Mountain Bikers, Freeriders, Turbo Levo s works) Anna Lydia Huber
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Philosophische Praxis
GESPRÄCHE sind EREIGNISSE als TEXT
Translation into English, Gerhard Kaučić (Dr. phil., b. 1959), European Philosopher, Writer, Feminist, Translator, Freerider , Europäischer Philosoph, Philosophische Praxis/Praktische Philosophie, Sprachanalytische Philosophie, Dekonstruktion, PP Wien, Österreich, Europa
Gerhard Kaučić, Alter 66, 2025, Anna Lydia Huber, age 66, 2025
Philosoph:in des Denkens der „différance“ (cf. J. Derrida, La dissémination. Collection „Tel Quel“ aux Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1972)
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Öffnungszeiten / Hours of opening: Mo – Fr: 11 – 20 Uhr
Honorar nach Vereinbarung / Charge by arrangement
Gespräche outdoor/indoor: Grammatologien, Kontextualisierungen, Analysen, Komplizierungen, Plurivalenzen, Dependenzen, Interdependenzen, Grammatiken, Aporien, Dekonstruktion…rund um die Uhr…rund um die Welt…
…around the clock …around the world…
Conversations outdoor/indoor: grammatologies, contextualizations, analyses, complications, plurivalences, dependencies, interdependencies, grammars, aporias, deconstruction…around the clock…around the world…
| Landschaft und Leib |
Landscape and body
Anna Lydia Huber (66, philosopher) & Gerhard Kaučić (66, philosopher)
Summer/winter bike tours 2024/25 (previous and following)
der Philosoph/die Philosophin als Radfahrer:in, die Philosophin/der Philosoph als Radfahrende, der Philosoph/die Philosophin als Fahrende, der Philosoph/die Philosophin als Bewegte und Bewegende, die Philosophin/der Philosoph als Scout ……. trace ……. Spur ……. Grammatologie ………. Dekonstruktion
the philosopher as cyclist, the philosopher as bicycle rider, the philosopher as traveler,
the philosopher as moved and moving,
the philosopher as scout … …. ….. trace ……. trail ……
Grammatology …….
Deconstruction
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The concept of freedom and its freedoms
On the concept and comprehensibility of freedom
https://disseminationsdjayphilpraxkaucic.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-concept-of-freedom-crisis-of-freedom.html
Freiheit und Krise. Krise der Freiheit
https://disseminationsdjayphilpraxkaucic.blogspot.com/2017/03/freiheit-und-krise.html
https://disseminationsdjayphilpraxkaucic.blogspot.com/2017/03/freiheit-und-krise.html?m=1
Freedom
Freedom for all
Gerhard Kaučić and Anna Lydia Huber (born 1959, Philosophers) skating and classic cross-country skiing on the cross-country ski trail in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer in January 2025
Freedom
Freedom for all
Mehr dazu siehe meinen Teaser und meinen Footer sowie die übrigen Postings in diesem Blog! (Blogspot-Blog 2014 ff.)