Hypostatization is that trick of the mind which transforms the complex into the simple, the local into the universal, and the temporary into the eternal. What is lost in this translation? Is anything saved? Addiction, the movement from an instrumental practice to an uncontrollable compulsion. Refusal, a strategic and localized resistance that has become a …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Autogenealogy
In the temporary absence of original thought (if, indeed, there is such a thing), a couple of tidbits from my own intellectual family tree: [C]ertain organisms, such as man, tend for a time to maintain and often even to increase the level of their organization, as a local enclave in the general stream of increasing …
