Repetition necessarily alters what it repeats
Evidence
One of the corollaries of the structure of alterity, which is the revised version of the structure of identity, is that every repetition is an alteration. This would put into question both a transcendental idealism that claims that the idea is infinitely repeatable as the same and a speech act theory that bases its conclusions on intentions and contexts that can be defined and transferred within firm outlines. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 721
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines iterability as the corollary that every repetition alters.
- XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s strategic-essentialism research: ‘every repetition is an alteration’ speaks to whether a fixed identity can be repeated/held without residue. — connects to: Identity is always impure because repetition identifies by altering — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 723; Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition.; Iterability names the process by which repetition both enables and corrupts identity — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 721 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition.
#expands(0.95) - Meaning emerges from the paradoxical combination of sameness and difference in repetition.
#corroborates(0.95) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 459 - A word’s identity requires repeatable difference with a trace of sameness
#expands(0.93) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 458 - Repeated exercises yield new understanding rather than identical experiences
#exemplifies(0.92) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 100 - Iterability names the process by which repetition both enables and corrupts identity
#expands(0.90) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 721 - Producing sameness requires creating and externalizing difference
#expands(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20 - Even identical notes vary measurably across every repeat performance
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