Wrecking the Recognitions...Chap 4 banana republic

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu May 12 09:14:34 CDT 2011


 cfabel wrote:
> Perhaps, like Philosophical Investigations, Recognitions is composed of
> fragments, notions, scraps experienced, ironically, as an entirely
> meaningful whole? Ironic as, taken altogether, it denies the notion of
> completeness? Scraps and notions filling in the interstices between self and
> others, self and movements (fascist moments of Catholicism), self and
> institutions (capitalism); one notion being that the interstices are the
> local of novelty, originality, creation, agorai where the personal and the
> shared are removed from their opposition (recognized)?
>

ooh, that's nice!



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