Document:Q10660
From Rhizome Artbase
it is paradoxical to tie a
truth so intimate as that of self-consciousness (the return of being to full
and irreducible sovereignty) to these completely external determinations. Yet
it is easy to perceive the deep meaning of these determinations if one returns
to the essential without further delay. In the first place, the paradox is carried
to an extreme owing to the fact that politics considered in terms of "the
dominant international economy" only aims at an improvement of the global
standard of living. It is in a sense disappointing and depressing. A point must
be uncovered where dry lucidity coincides with a <a href="#" onMouseOver="MM_showHideLayers('wtclayer1',,'hide','ansazi1',,
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the reduction of the sacred world to the component most purely opposed to things,
its reduction to pure intimacy.