http://www.influxus.org/2007/06/as-many-worlds-as-it-takes-to-make-a-world/ finished for a while Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.influxus.org/2007/06/as-many-worlds-as-it-takes-to-make-a-world/#comment-4935 LisA Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:04:53 +0000 http://www.influxus.org/2007/06/29/as-many-worlds-as-it-takes-to-make-a-world/#comment-4935 What's the ettiquette on quotes without quotation marks, as in with "butter scraped over too much bread": Bilbo Baggins, LOTR: The Fellowship of The Rings? What’s the ettiquette on quotes without quotation marks, as in with “butter scraped over too much bread”: Bilbo Baggins, LOTR: The Fellowship of The Rings?

]]> http://www.influxus.org/2007/06/as-many-worlds-as-it-takes-to-make-a-world/#comment-4894 Steve Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:38:06 +0000 http://www.influxus.org/2007/06/29/as-many-worlds-as-it-takes-to-make-a-world/#comment-4894 A remarkable point, the collapse of discrete categories of specialness; and yet, J-L N's gesture traverses in contrary motion to equalization, the leveling of every feature, reduced to the same. Here, we affirm identities in order to cast off the violence imposed by them, to say one is is just the same as our acknowledgment that the World becomes. In this sense, the idea of autism radically de-compartmentalizes the very institution of diagnosis, overturning not the world (as if there were a world, with multiple variations, all according to the meta-figure) but Worlds, continually in each effort ventured to see ourselves. A perfectly blind vision, a seeing without any(thing) seen. A remarkable point, the collapse of discrete categories of specialness; and yet, J-L N’s gesture traverses in contrary motion to equalization, the leveling of every feature, reduced to the same. Here, we affirm identities in order to cast off the violence imposed by them, to say one is is just the same as our acknowledgment that the World becomes. In this sense, the idea of autism radically de-compartmentalizes the very institution of diagnosis, overturning not the world (as if there were a world, with multiple variations, all according to the meta-figure) but Worlds, continually in each effort ventured to see ourselves. A perfectly blind vision, a seeing without any(thing) seen.

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