the End of ' I think ':
How a Subversive Mickey Mouse comes about and thrives:
"Any work with a new form
operates as a war machine,
because its design and its goal
is to pulverize
the old forms and formal conventions."
--Monique Wittig (1935-2003)
"The value of thought is measured
by its distance from the continuity of the familiar."
-- in Minima Moralia: Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)
"The reason it is now so necessary to think through fiction -
while in the past it was a matter of thinking the truth-
is that 'I speak' runs counter to 'I think.'
"I think' led to the indubitable certainty of the " I " and its existence;
" I speak" on the other hand
distances, disperses, effaces that existence
and lets only empty emplacement appear.
Thought about thought, an entire tradition wider
than philosophy, has taught us that thought leads us
to the deepest interiority.
Speech about speech leads us, by way of literature
as well as perhaps by other paths,
to the outside in which the speaking subject disappears.
No doubt that is why Western thought took so long
to think the being of language: as if it had a premonition
of the danger that the naked experience of language
poses for the self-evidence of "I think."
and
"In short, it is no longer discourse and the communication of meaning,
but a spreading forth of language in its raw state, an unfolding of pure exteriority.
And the subject that speaks is less the responsible agent of a discourse ...
than a non-existence in whose emptiness the unending outpouring of language uninterruptedly continues."
--'Maurice Blanchot: The Though from Outside'
by Michel Foucault (1926-1984)