Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:17:23 +0200 (METDST) From: jnech-AT-imaginet.fr (NECHVATAL Joseph) Subject: Re: Suicides >Jean Beaudillard tells us: "We confuse the fatal with the return of the >repressed (what is inescapable is desire), but the order of fatality is >antithetical to that of repression. What is inescapable is not desire, >but the ironic presence of the object, its indifference and indifferent >connections, its challenge, its seduction, and its disobedience to the >symbolic order (and therefore also of the subjects's unconscious, if he >had one). What is inescapable, in a word, is the principle of Evil." > "Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" - Neal Stephenson (snow crash) .d88b. d888888b Y888888P 'Y88P' X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X Joseph Nechvatal, Paris, France, Europa http://www.cybertheque.fr/galerie/jnech X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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