Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
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Is Everything a Unit in a System?
Everything exists insofar as it participates in some serial system of language. A thing exists only when it can reproduce itself, only when it perceives itself as its own reproduction. When we humans start to internalize this way of thinking, we start to perceive ourselves as measurable units in a system. And then we become what he calls abstract general entities. He writes on page 85, I can claim my individuality only as an abstract general entity. The person has disappeared. There's no such thing as a person. We are allying ourselves with some general entity and your utterances are taken to be the utterances of that general entity. This is very down-to-earth: speaking as an ex
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