Originally posted on sciy.org by Rich Carlson on Fri 02 Dec 2005 07:49 PM PST
Click the following link for this entire humorous article on difference, the will to consumption, as Nietzsche visits the mall:
here is the link:
https://www.tomorrowtoday.biz/generations/xpaper2007.htm
More is going on here however then just tongue and cheek. It's a nice look at co-dependent origination..
The self-other opposition is a difference which itself must be accounted
for: the binary opposition, "self-other" is, in Derridean terms,
a structure which provides for the stability of its constituent opposites
but cannot account for its own "structurality," its own "center."
If Derrida is right this structurality is not a static, metaphysical reality
but a relationship created by the play of differance. So the elementary
deconstruction of the idea of self - that it is in necessary opposition
to the other and that both opposites fit within a structure whose structurality
is generated by a process of playful differentiation - provides a neostructuralist
view of "self" as a form of inscription in a dynamic language
game which can only come to rest through the failure to think, or the agreement
to stop thinking, that is metaphysics (See Kamuf, 64 ff.).
This is the
insight that prompted Heidegger to write The End of Philosophy and
the Task of Thinking. But what of Nietzsche's other alternative?
What view of self is implicit in the critique evident in the second quotation
from The Will to Power? Is it not the deconstructed, heterogeneous
"schizophrenic" persona of postmodernity? Is deconstruction,
then, a form of empowerment? Does it animate the self it recontextualizes
as inscribed within the play of differance, or does it simply make it into
a passive design in an unfolding pattern?
As Foucault argues, "In
fact, among all the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things
and their order, the knowledge of identities, differences, characters,
equivalencies, words - in short, in the midst of all the episodes of that
profound history of the Same - only one, that which began a century and
a half ago and is now perhaps drawing to a close, has made it possible
for the figure of man to appear." (The Order of Things 386)
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