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The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries Have Given Us As Much Terror As We Can Take. We Have Paid A High Enough Price For The Nostalgia Of The Whole And The One, For The Reconciliation Of The Concept And The Sensible, Of The Transparent And The Communicable Experience. Under The General Demand For Slackening And For Appeasement, We Can Hear The Mutterings Of The Desire For A Return Of Terror, For The Realization Of The Fantasy To Seize Reality. The Answer Is: Let Us Wage A War On Totality; Let Us Be Witnesses To The Unpresentable; Let Us Activate The Differences.

What Guides Marxism, Then, Is A Different Model Of Society, And A Different Conception Of The Function Of The Knowledge That Can Be Produced By Society And Acquired From It

Scientific Knowledge Is A Kind Of Discourse.

One Can Decide That The Principal Role Of Knowledge Is As An Indispensable Element In The Functioning Of Society, And Act In Accordance With That Decision, Only If One Has Already Decided That Society Is A Giant Machine

Eclecticism Is The Degree Zero Of Contemporary General Culture: One Listens To Reggae, Watches A Western, Eats Mcdonald's Food For Lunch And Local Cuisine For Dinner, Wears Paris Perfume In Tokyo And 'retro' Clothing In Hong Kong; Knowledge Is A Matter Of Tv Games. It Is Easy To Find A Public For Eclectic Works.