Let me tell you why you are here. You are
here because you know ... that there’s something
wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is,
but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving
you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to
me. [...] The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is
our enemy. (Morpheus, in Wachowski and
Wachowski 1999)
I know, you'll argue that Deleuze's rhizomatic machinic assemblages begin from difference, but if Protevi is any judge, we've seen how a gestalt can act for him via something like 'distributed cognition' as a structural whole whose meaning can be determined beyond particular cogntitions of its participants.
If difference really precedes identity, then a gestalt can never encompass its particulars via distributed cognition, but rather each particular is already its own gestalt. This is how the social field functions in relation to the individual for Heidegger and Derrida.
I know, you'll argue that Deleuze's rhizomatic machinic assemblages begin from difference, but if Protevi is any judge, we've seen how a gestalt can act for him via something like 'distributed cognition' as a structural whole whose meaning can be determined beyond particular cogntitions of its participants.
If difference really precedes identity, then a gestalt can never encompass its particulars via distributed cognition, but rather each particular is already its own gestalt.
Actually I'm dying to ask how you came to be living with a nun for a year, at what stage of your life and so on...
I think he was wrong about that. Idealism at its extreme is the view from the grave, the world gone gray. The materialist is seeking to live fully in this world, which is honorable. The casual observer is waiting for the materialist to notice that at materialism's extreme, all meaning is lost.just as rage is the defining mark of idealism in all its forms ... — StreetlightX
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