File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-04-26.202, message 1


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)


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