Sublime

Kepple said, ‘You’ve set yourself a pointless task, you do know that?’ ‘You think so?’ ‘Postmodernism works against the sureties of narrative, of linear progression – ultimate goals, beginnings, middles and ends. I truly believe that a coming age will despise such notions. There is no one truth, only a mist of possibilities. We are lost among the v

In the absence of any hard-and-fast information and advice – and in the absence of any kind of consensus (or shared criteria) about what it is to live and to have lived – all we can do, if we are interested, is ask these questions and see what, if anything, we want to do.

it is the state alone that can never benefit from the plain and open way, anyone who does try to serve it openly will be more suspected of serving himself, and so the state will not get the benefit. If this logic makes sense, then you should wonder if it didn't make sense to Socrates as well. It did, he didn't care, he had had enough.

This text questions its own

aporia.

Demi-rhetoricity is, I believe, the major topos from which clinicians draw when they wish to refute the desires or claims to identity of those whom they study. As a construct, demi-rhetoricity enables clinicians to claim the best of both worlds when they respond to autistic rhetors: They can argue that autistic people are not autistic enough to mak

don’t know.”

I were to treat a question as a proper question, rather than a problem in disguise—which is to say, to ask that question purely for the sake of answering it—could I tell when I had in fact arrived at the answer? This is called “Meno’s paradox,”

Throughout even the most recent applications of Theory, then, we see radical skepticism that knowledge can be objectively, universally, or neutrally true. This leads to a belief that rigor and completeness come not from good methodology, skepticism, and evidence, but from identity-based “standpoints” and multiple “ways of knowing.”