Wednesday, January 10, 1990

In praise of failure

Erasmus ---> in praise of folly?
folly - human capacity's completion
failure - human capacities exhausted?
futility - limitation of human capacities

critique ---> illusion of modern invincibility (Latour)
infallibility - destabilized by critique?
success - merely the clinical precision of critique?
limits-infinity - critique ad infinitum?