FIERCE SOCIOLOGY "it integrates within and through a form of knowledge what is nearest to us; that is 'to invent' (in the sense of in-venire), to bring to light all these fragments, these small-scale situations, these banalities which, by sedimentation, constitute the essence of existence." "philosophy has been, up to this point, as much as science, an expression of human subordination, and when man seeks to represent himself, no longer as a moment of a homogeneous process - of a necessary and pitiful process - but as a new laceration within a lacerated nature, it is no longer the levelling phraseology coming to him from the understanding that can help him: he can no longer recognise himself in the degrading chains of logic, but he recognises himself, instead - not only with rage but in an ecstatic torment - in the virulence of his own phantasms." Notes (1) Michel Maffesoli "The Sociology of Everyday Life (Epistemological Elements)" (2) Georges Bataille "The Pineal Eye" [in] Visions of Excess Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. pp.81-82 (83). (3) Felix Guattari "Regimes, Pathways, Subjects" [in] incorporations J. Crary & S. Kwinter(eds.) New York: Zone, 1992. p.18 | |
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