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Jon -<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Somehow this post reminds me of George Bataille's "L’informe":
"A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their
tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a
term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that
each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and
gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. In fact, for
academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of
philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what
is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the
universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the
universe is something like a spider or spit."</pre>
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<p>"no longer gives the meaning of... but their tasks..." seems like
an echo of some of Glen's sentiments here?<br>
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<p>Which lead me to his:</p>
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maudite </i><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family:
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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!important; float: none;">According to Bataille's theory of
consumption, the accursed share is that excessive and
non-recuperable part of any economy which must either be spent
luxuriously and knowingly without gain in the arts, in
non-procreative sexuality, in spectacles and sumptuous
monuments, or it is obliviously destined to an outrageous and
catastrophic outpouring, in the contemporary age most often in
war, or in former ages as destructive and ruinous acts of giving
or sacrifice, but always in a manner that threatens the
prevailing system.<br>
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... of which I was vaguely aware... it seems to have a place in
SGuerin's application of "Least Action" to Socioeconomic systems?<span
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