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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Grand Unified Theory

A theory of everything. The purpose of everything we do is freedom. Therefore, the aim of everything we do is to escape from the necessity of doing that which we do. (huh?) The aim of words and language is to escape from language. PROOF: A person I admire immensely, wrote this: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=620 ...And I didn’t find the details of Boutang’s exposition particularly satisfying or convincing. To be snide about it, it would seem that Boutang, like all too many French intellectuals, has become a bit too enamored of California. He takes those Silicon Valley/libertarian ideas — about the value of continual innovation, the worthiness of the free software movement, and the possibilities of unlimited digital dissemination — more seriously, or at least to a much greater extent, than they merit. The result is a sort of yuppie view of the new capitalism, one that ignores much that is cruel and repressive about the current regime of financial accumulation. All perfectly good stuff. However, it must become obvious sooner or later that the point of all this verbiage, skein after skein of it...miles of it!...is that words create dead ends, from which a new generation of philosophers must emerge to free us, and create news paths which themselves will eventually become newer dead ends. This is not to say that there is no knowledge to be attained. It is saying that we must transcend ourselves to reach it.

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