More on Chaos
Duchamp once gave to his sister as a wedding gift a copy of Euclid’s Elements with the instruction to suspend it from her balcony by a thread.
[Anecdote from Hanjo Berressem, “Serres Reads Pynchon / Pynchon Reads Serres”, Postmodern Culture, Volume 11, Number 3 (May, 2001)]
[The following are from one of the books under consideration: Serres, Michel. Genesis, Trans. G. James and J. Nielson, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1995]
How to “speak of [dynamic] multiplicity itself without ever availing myself of the [static] concept?” (p. 4)
“Under the world of language, this wave, and beneath the wave, the black noise. The unknown, the infra-subject of hate and multiplicity” (p. 139)
“the philosopher keeps watch over unforeseeable and fragile conditions, his position is unstable, mobile, suspended, the philosopher seeks to leave ramifications and bifurcations open, in opposition to the confluences that connect them or close them. He goes back up the thalweg a bit, he climbs the chreod” (p. 23)
“It is always assumed that multiplicities can, through various procedures, be eliminated. I assume that they cannot be, I find that they cannot be and I hope that they are not” (p. 128).