Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Nihilism has no bottom.

Alas, if only my occasional lapses into non-idomatic use of the English language resulted in the writing style and phrasing of Bruno Latour in this essay draft entitled The Promises of Constructivism:

One can only hope that this ultimate gesture, this ultimate self-destruction of nihilist thought about a nihilistic act of self-destruction, will be the last gasp of critical barbarity. History shows, alas, that nihilism has no bottom.

Latour is responding the claim that Baudrillard made about how the towers, as "icons of a self destroying capitalism' (Mr. Bin Laden dixit), had deconstructed themselves by attracting passing planes to commit suicide."

1 Comments:

At 7:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does nihilism have a top? ;)

Brance

 

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