{"id":22945,"date":"2025-12-24T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:44:06","slug":"22945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/?p=22945","title":{"rendered":"cercle infini, critique, dupet\u00e9, (Latour)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can sum\u00adma\u00adrize, I esti\u00admate, 90 percent of the contem\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adry cri\u00adti\u00adcal scene by the fol\u00adlo\u00adwing series of dia\u00adgrams that fixate the object at only two posi\u00adtions, what I have cal\u00adled the fact<\/em> posi\u00adtion and the fai\u00adry<\/em> posi\u00adtion\u2014fact<\/em> and fai\u00adry<\/em> are ety\u00admo\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal\u00adly rela\u00adted but I won\u2019t deve\u00adlop this point here. The fai\u00adry posi\u00adtion is very well known and is used over and over again by many social scien\u00adtists who asso\u00adciate cri\u00adti\u00adcism with anti\u00adfe\u00adti\u00adshism. The role of the cri\u00adtic is then to show that what the na\u0131\u00a8ve belie\u00advers are doing with objects is sim\u00adply a pro\u00adjec\u00adtion of their wishes onto a mate\u00adrial enti\u00adty that does nothing at all by itself. Here they have diver\u00adted to their pet\u00adty use the pro\u00adphe\u00adtic ful\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion against idols \u201cthey have mouths and speak not, they have ears and hear not,\u201d but they use this pro\u00adphe\u00adcy to decry the very objects of belief\u2014 gods, fashion, poe\u00adtry, sport, desire, you name it\u2014to which na\u0131\u00a8ve belie\u00advers cling with so much inten\u00adsi\u00adty. And then the cou\u00adra\u00adgeous cri\u00adtic, who alone remains aware and atten\u00adtive, who never sleeps, turns those false object\u00adsin\u00adto fetishes that are sup\u00adpo\u00adsed to be nothing but mere emp\u00adty white screens on which is pro\u00adjec\u00adted the power of socie\u00adty, domi\u00adna\u00adtion, wha\u00adte\u00adver. The na\u00efve belie\u00adver has recei\u00adved a first salvo.
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\nBut, wait, a second sal\u00advo is in the offing, and this time it comes from the fact pole. This time it is the poor bloke, again taken aback, whose beha\u00advior is now \u201cexplai\u00adned\u201d by the power\u00adful effects of indis\u00adpu\u00adtable mat\u00adters of fact : \u201cYou, ordi\u00adna\u00adry feti\u00adshists, believe you are free but, in rea\u00adli\u00adty, you are acted on by forces you are not conscious of. Look at them, look, you blind idiot\u201d (and here you insert whi\u00adche\u00adver pet facts the social scien\u00adtists fan\u00adcy to work with, taking them from eco\u00adno\u00admic infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, fields of dis\u00adcourse, social domi\u00adna\u00adtion, race, class, and gen\u00adder, maybe thro\u00adwing in some neu\u00adro\u00adbio\u00adlo\u00adgy, evo\u00adlu\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adry psy\u00adcho\u00adlo\u00adgy, wha\u00adte\u00adver, pro\u00advi\u00added they act as indis\u00adpu\u00adtable facts whose ori\u00adgin, fabri\u00adca\u00adtion, mode of deve\u00adlop\u00adment are left unexamined).
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\nDo you see now why it feels so good to be a cri\u00adti\u00adcal mind ? Why cri\u00adtique, this most ambi\u00adguous phar\u00adma\u00adkon<\/em>, has become such a potent eupho\u00adric drug ? You are always right ! When na\u00efve belie\u00advers are clin\u00adging for\u00adce\u00adful\u00adly to their objects, clai\u00adming that they are made to do things because of their gods, their poe\u00adtry, their che\u00adri\u00adshed objects, you can turn all of those attach\u00adments into so many fetishes and humi\u00adliate all the belie\u00advers by sho\u00adwing that it is nothing but their own pro\u00adjec\u00adtion, that you, yes you alone, can see. But as soon as na\u0131\u00a8ve belie\u00advers are thus infla\u00adted by some belief in their own impor\u00adtance, in their own pro\u00adjec\u00adtive capa\u00adci\u00adty, you strike them by a second upper\u00adcut and humi\u00adliate them again, this time by sho\u00adwing that, wha\u00adte\u00adver they think, their beha\u00advior is enti\u00adre\u00adly deter\u00admi\u00adned by the action of power\u00adful cau\u00adsa\u00adli\u00adties coming from objec\u00adtive rea\u00adli\u00adty they don\u2019t see, but that you, yes you, the never slee\u00adping cri\u00adtic, alone can see. Isn\u2019t this fabu\u00adlous ? Isn\u2019t it real\u00adly worth going to gra\u00adduate school to stu\u00addy cri\u00adtique ? \u201cEnter here, you poor folks. After arduou\u00adsyears of rea\u00adding tur\u00adgid prose, you will be always right, you will never be taken in any more ; no one, no mat\u00adter how power\u00adful, will be able to accuse you of na\u00ef\u00adve\u00adt\u00e9, that supreme sin, any lon\u00adger ? Better equip\u00adped than Zeus him\u00adself you rule alone, stri\u00adking from above with the sal\u00advo of anti\u00adfe\u00adti\u00adshism in one hand and the solid cau\u00adsa\u00adli\u00adty of objec\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty in the other.\u201d The only loser is the na\u00efve belie\u00adver, the great unwa\u00adshed, always caught off balance.
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\nIs it so sur\u00adpri\u00adsing, after all, that with such posi\u00adtions given to the object, the huma\u00adni\u00adties have lost the hearts of their fel\u00adlow citi\u00adzens, that they had to retreat year after year, entren\u00adching them\u00adselves always fur\u00adther in the nar\u00adrow bar\u00adracks left to them by more and more stin\u00adgy deans ? The Zeus of Critique rules abso\u00adlu\u00adte\u00adly, to be sure, but over a desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"