For Sam
Event below to be taken in context of a certain jet-lagged half-brain while signing mouth with paneer.
(Dinner after the first day of the conference, "Forty years of Structure, Sign and Play." Upon hearing the person next to me mention a name.)
Me to A. Benjamin: So how do you make of the relation or at times non-relation between he and ...?
A. Benjamin to me: For all their differences, one thing is for sure, they both taught us what it means to read. To publish a book on Marx -- anything under philosophy or social thought for that matter -- with the title "Lire le capital" at that time is no laughing matter.
Me to A. Benjamin: So how do you make of the relation or at times non-relation between he and ...?
A. Benjamin to me: For all their differences, one thing is for sure, they both taught us what it means to read. To publish a book on Marx -- anything under philosophy or social thought for that matter -- with the title "Lire le capital" at that time is no laughing matter.
posted by msl at 9:01 AM
1 Comments:
i am beside myself, of course, with honor and delight. we will follow up. it's not over! it will be easy to get work done once we have invented our machine.
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