[lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Sun Jun 8 15:39:31 PDT 2008


Marvin Gandall wrote:


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> Exactly! Would Lenin follow the (bad) intellectual philistines in
> characterizing the following passage from Guattari as somehow unintelligible
> to the masses?
>
> "We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between
> linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this
> multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of
> scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their
> expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded
> middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we
> criticised previously."
>
> I think not!

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Nothing new there; philosophers have been pointing out problems with "the law" of the excluded middle for millennia.

And what's so bad about science fiction anyway? :-)

Ian



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