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Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

Why Theory

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I'm in the Picture in the Form of the Gaze

Hegel's take on the Antinomies of Pure Reason is those aren't limits of reason. They're the success of reason, right? But that failure is a form of success for Hegel, not for Kant. I don't think Joan would say that because I think this but she thinks if you make that step and you turn the failure into the success, then you lose touch, I think she would say, with the necessity of the failure.

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