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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:37:44 -0400
From: Thomas 2Less <tksmith-AT-sprint.ca>
Subject: Re: deleuze-guattari-digest V1 #863


I think its unfair to say that just becuase B. is "pessimistic" that he has
his roots in Schopenhauer.

B.'s thinking is much beyond mere "pessimism" and really describes
poignantly and poetically the times in which we live.  His fatal strategies
are also there to absorb and consider as alternatives (counter-signs) to
the hyperreal.  I have been reading Symbolic Exchange and Death as a life
manual for the possessed.  I have to say I feel quite uplifted and inspired
while studying it.

He is far beyond mere pessimism and if he does, owes very little to
Schopenhauer.  Nietzsche himself would be proud of B.

   

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