Unhappy Consciousness

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Wed Jan 20 09:37:56 PST 1999



> Quick note on Butler
> . . .
> On 39-40p, Butler sets up the idea that the Bondsman in laboring
> performs a self-erasure. . . .
>
> Whats wrong with this picture? Apparently nothing, until you realize
> that the object is not the house of the skill that created it--the
> bondsmen is. . . .

One might say alternatively, and not necessarily in contradiction, that the bondsman is realized or finds fulfillment in the use of whatever is produced, notwithstanding the arrangements by which it is severed from the bondsman.

Or one might say any other damn thing. After all, it's philosophy.

mbs



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