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of the Garden of Eden and of the Cross, to sow Deleuze and Guattari’s a Thousand Plateaus. They rooted out the coherent absurd, as Mr. Eco asserts, for the absurd incoherent. We dwell not in changing times, or times of rift, but in times of an experimental groundlessness. We have returned to the primeval chasm and the void the ancients felt. We have returned to where they began, yet we are worse off. They had deities; we have none. Sadly, these philosophies set out to evaporate all the idols of the marketplace Francis Bacon began to dissect. We neither worship sacred idols nor revere God. There is no ideal humanism left, neither Gods nor Gods, but our all-too-real idols have become insurance brokers, banks, stock markets, unaffordable law courts, psychologists and neurotic drugs, amidst the philosophy of O announcing a simple life by purchasing a cashmere sweater at Neiman Marcus or painting our walls in Martha’s fashionable pale organic hues to merely glimpse at the heaven’s blues.
The Word is now at best a software; at worst, a Marketing Word; and its post-modern word smiths are neither sages, nor doctors, nor priests, neither prophets, nor poets, nor seers, these, no longer Shelley’s legislators of the world, but sellers of masked ancient ideas, and plastic surgeons of the copy-and-paste, and over-write-and-stretch archetype, ever rewriting false ideologies of beauties in our bodies, expanding not the everlasting Spirit, but
dualities, or deep roots or structures; suggesting a superfluous existence. Deleuze and Guattari. Rizoma. Introducción. Traducida por José Vázquez Pérez y Umbelina Larraceleta. España: Pre-Textos, 2000. 9-57. Originally published by Éditions de Minuit, 1976.
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