You say PoMo; I say trade for profit before option expires

Mittelwerk at aol.com Mittelwerk at aol.com
Fri May 30 00:48:44 CDT 1997


Gee, what funny things happen when you excise substantiality from theory!
 holy reified beans!

I mean, i don't know shit about no blancs sans lesquels aucun texte jamais ne
se propose comme tel, but i do know that abstract negation confuses temporal
relationships for spatial ones!  I mean, fuck, that Hegel guy said as much,
what . . . almost 200 years ago?  

Admittedly, postmodern theory is much more of a pleasing, self-referential
wankfest than sitting down and actually digesting the philosophy of
consciousness.  (All those irritating, synthetic, determinate triads to
master when you could just be pasting 'Other' tags on vaginas, black people,
and your libido.)  Even better, it's not really a theory, per se, but a
typology of one:  it describes a consumer of thought-products writing naked
calls on the death of metaphysics.

Don't fear the Concept, Jacques. 









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