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0706 After the second asterisk (2), Uspenskij discusses the future in a detailed manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a comparison of the general and applied situation-levels of the derivative (or ego<\/em>) interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0707 Historical consciousness<\/em> looks at the future as an extrapolation of the past and present<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cosmological consciousness<\/em> regards the future as part and parcel of a re-enactment of an originating primal event<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0708 I suppose the first has short-term expectations, born of sensible construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second has long-term expectations, born of social construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0709 Here is the trick that Uspenskij does not articulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sensible construction<\/em> builds on social construction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sensible construction pertains to the content and situation levels of a three-level interscope.  The perspective level is not even apparent until a dramatic failure occurs.  A dramatic failure may come from ongoing sensible construction <\/em>compromising the original social construction,<\/em> as described, in fairy tale fashion, in the opening chapter of An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0710 For example, in America, the word “freedom” was originally a potential1<\/sub> and “responsibility” was its normal context3<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One transit of Pluto later (248 years), according to modern corporate media, “freedom” is now a normal context3<\/sub> and “responsibility” is someone else’s problem1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By “someone else”, I mean “the taxpayer”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0711 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can corporations sell more product when freedom is the normal context3<\/sub> rather than responsibility3<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this especially the case when the one who ends up holding the bag1<\/sub><\/em> is not the person engaging in an addictive behavior2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0712 Are apparently sensible, yet playfully transgressive, broadcast manipulations<\/em> capable of altering the language of<\/em>… what?… the language that supports the literary text as noumenon2bf<\/sub><\/em>… or the language that supports the literary text as a model of the noumenon2af<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0713 At some point, does a complete inversion of the co-opposition between “freedom” and “responsibility”<\/em> occur, marking a turn – or a half-turn – of a cosmological cycle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or does the historical step-by-step conversion of “freedom” from the potential1<\/sub> to act, while suffering the normal context of responsibility3<\/sub>,<\/em> to the normal context of acting without constraint3<\/sub>, with others to suffer the consequences1<\/sub>, <\/em>merely present the appearance of a cosmological process?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0714 In short, does Uspenskij’s model of time as a literary text2af<\/sub> entangling both historical and cosmological consciousnesses2am<\/sub><\/em> play out as a category-based nested form or an interscope moving diachronically through time?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0715 Here is a picture of the diachronic results for freedom<\/em> as the textual thing itself2bf<\/sub><\/em> and its model2af<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cosmological consciousness regards the future as part and parcel of a re-enactment of an originating primal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-review"],"yoast_head":"\nLooking at Boris Uspenskij's Article (2017) "Semiotics and Culture"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 6 of 8) - An Archaeology of the Fall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10085\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at Boris Uspenskij's Article (2017) "Semiotics and Culture"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 6 of 8) - An Archaeology of the Fall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"0706 After the second asterisk (2), Uspenskij discusses the future in a detailed manner. 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