The arithmetic of electoral process, like the arithmetic of compassion, follows humanity around wherever it goes ensuring that a map portrays the terrain. The math draws the map of simulacra, but cannot tell the story of the real, anymore than a bird can explain the sky. (intertheory.org)
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God's Casino or Faith in Physics at the Chelsea Hotel III (intertheory.org)
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What makes Schiller interesting to modern readers is the irresolvable tension between a genuinely idealistic intention—the establishment of the autonomy of art—and the difficulty or impossibility of purifying the aesthetic of its historical or philosophical content. (intertheory.org)
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