Monday, April 03 2006: *Void
This is what you get when you start googling on Nietzsche and voids:
- "The Matrix" is a Nietzschean parable of cosmic Enantiodromia or something...
- The decline of dialogue in the West is a symptom of lividity.
- Post-modern "double-standard" foreign policy.
- wrong.
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Indra's Net and postmodernism -
The self-existence (Sanskrit, svabhva) that Mahyna refutes corresponds to the "self-presence" which Derrida criticizes in textual terms, by showing that every process of signification, including self-consciousness, is an economy of differences:
The play of differences supposes, in effect, syntheses and referrals, which forbid at any moment, or in any sense, that a simple element be present in and of itself, referring only to itself... There are only, everywhere, differences and traces of traces.