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Monday, November 28, 2011

Two modes of betraying the past...

One can remain really faithful to an author by way of betraying him (the actual LETTER of his thought), One can only truly betray an author by way of repeating him, by way of remaining faithful to the core of his thought.

If one does not repeat an author, but merely "criticizes" him, moves elsewhere, turns him around, and so forth, this effectively means that one unknowingly remains within his horizon, his conceptual field....

- Slavoj Žižek, [Organs Without Bodies : On Deleuze and consequences]

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