Re: [-empyre-] a book, dna and code

[Eugene Thacker <eugene.thacker@lcc.gatech.edu>]

Quoting dean wilson <deanwilson9@gmail.com>:

 Judith wrote in a previous post:

 "... maybe all critique is ethics, but it is precisely this
 collapse that I resist at least by pointing it out."

 We could start with that and then add to it, perhaps. Dean



...how about:

Critique, like ethics, presupposes relation (or, perhaps, relationality).

But the disjunction between them relies on the quality of relation. For
instance, is 'relation' for critique a relation of opposition, distancing,
sublimation, etc.? Likewise, is 'relation' for ethics a relation of alterity,
'facing,' standing aside, acting against or acting with, etc.?

Relation is this sense is really correlation (that is, two terms that are
distinct but inseparable).

Relation, as presupposed by critique and ethics, is also the conjunction between
critique and ethics.

(add something here about James Watson as Zeus wielding a double helix...)

(...con't...)

-Eugene