Statement 11

The structural failure of clarity about subject and object [the failure of the promises of the Enlightenment] is also the failure of syntax. Does it mean that anything goes? Obviously not, even though the permeability within the onto-epistemological horizon leads to dilution of the force of critique. For sure, but it does not annihilate critique. Instead critique [which makes the subject into an object to better discipline its behavior] changes into a type of vigilance – an attentiveness to contrarian voices, some of which need to be accommodated, some of which need to be resisted, some of which need to be imagined. The intensification of points of contact between subjects, potential subjects, subjects to be, subjects to be not, entangled with memories and forgotten-nesses, egos and libidos, (friends and ‘not friends’) move one toward a virtual that, however, rarely seems virtual, but real - even though unreadable.