The Obession of the Library Bug
Gilles Deleuze made her laugh:
Discussion is just an exercise of narcissism
where everyone takes turns showing off
Conversation is something entirely different
The slightest conversation is a great schizophrenic experiment
happening between two individuals with common resources
and a taste for ellipses and short-hand expressions
Conversation can give you ideas
The phrase "let's discuss it" is an act or terror
She read it on page 308 of
Two Regimes of Madness
texts and interviews between 1975 and 1995
Immanuel Kant made her contemplate:
The Beautiful is what is presented with concepts
as the object of a universal liking
Beautiful is what, without a concept, is likened universally
Beautiful is what without a concept is cognized
as the object of a necessary liking
Critique of Judgment was the book
Nietzsche would have embraced her as a sister:
Dissertation, or logos, is despisable
Becoming, not being, is reasonable
Foucault would have hugged another inmate:
What is written is triumph of succession of syntax
Utterances are beyond words and language
Between seeing and speaking there is thinking
The prison, the clinic are both global metaphors
Sexuality writes the human body and human soul
Space, space, space, all history is about space
The story of the library bug is thus lost among the bewildering bricks