“In circle of truth, there is no gap between what we are, what we do, and what we are becoming.”

the invisible committee, the coming insurrection, Semiotext(e); 1 edition (May 15, 2009)

“the light from an object is perceived by us as the subjective excitation of the optic nerve, but as the objective form of something outside the eye itself.”

marx, the fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof, capital, a critique of political economy, new york, 1970, p. 72

“Let me suggest the beginning toward some resolution of this problem of two cultures by turning to the thoughts of Robert Oppenheimer, one of my most distinguished predecessors as director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Four years before C.P. Snow’s lecture, Oppenheimer gave a lecture about two cultures; he used the categories of scientist and artist. He concluded that both scientists and artists had become highly specialized, isolated, and to some extent irrelevant to society. And he, like Snow, suggested that both groups expose themselves to other people-both to teach and to learn from those around them. The purpose of this exposure is not to dilute their own efforts, or to take orders from those who do not understand what they are doing. The proper role of scientists and artists, he said, is to “not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.” This teaching, when successful, is the first set of girders across the gulf between the two cultures.”

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