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        noting notching: some counting phenomenology


        counting and counting things: what happens when you run out of 
        things to count?

        counting is not an enumeration of numbers, but a labeling of 
        things.

        when things are counted, they are marked, demarcated otherwise; 
        they are circumscribed.

        the nature of this circumscription is simultaneously the 
        phenomenology of names and numbers.

        so that counting constitutes a _corral_ of the real - classical 
        division between x and -x, within which the Sheffer stroke and 
        its dual point _elsewhere._

        so that counting constructs a sub-universe of discourse within 
        the larger cultural sememe.

        think of this as the _tally_ and its implication of a material 
        substrate for notching, knotting, noting.

        in the meantime, those which have been assigned markers have 
        been subsumed within/beneath them; their fullness is lost in the 
        classification.

        and in the meantime, those which have not been assigned markers 
        are in danger of ignorance, forgetting, annihilation; counting 
        is a coming-forth to be tallied.

        not to mention the structural system of the tallying itself, 
        beyond one-to-one; what sort of apparatus is necessary to 
        construct the semblance of quantity?

        quantity strips quality - integration; quality fractures 
        quantity - differentiation.

        where are the uncounted? they remain unaccounted and 
        unaccounted-for. it's within this uncharting that alterity is 
        (un)found(ed), the unfounding of number as well, charring, 
        dissolving, the potential well of the corral. there are always 
        externalities, corrosions; rites and rituals keep them away, 
        abject revolt draws them within.



        >>>>
        >>>>
        >>>> what
        **** Command 'what' not recognized.
        >>>>
        >>>>
        >>>> why
        **** Command 'why' not recognized.
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