Date: Wed, 18 May 94 07:42:17 EDT
From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas)
To: technology-AT-world.std.com
Subject: Re:  Guattari & Smoothing Out


> I'm wondering if anyone can help explain what is meant by smoothing out 
> for example in this quote:

> "We must also surpass logic based on the principle of the excluded third 
> term and on sufficient reason. Through smoothing out, a being beyond 
> comes into play, a being-for-the-other, which makes an existing being 
> take consitency outside of its strict delimitation in the here and now."

I speak from absolute ignorance here, but when has that stopped me
before?  To me, the mention of the principle of the excluded middle
(which, I assume is what is meant by "excluded third term") suggests
that "smoothing out" has to do with filling the gaps between binary
oppositions, between the statement and its negation, so as to create
between them a continuous (smooth) "line" of in-betweens.  Does that
make any sense? 


- malgosia