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time might also be interpreted as a positron moving backward
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through time.
Does not Faustroll propose a theory of
gravity, in which "the fa11 of a body towards a center" is
the same as "the ascension of a vacuum towards a periphery"
(1965:193) Does not Sengle suggest that an infinitely
smooth surface is indistinguishable from an infinitely rough
surface (1989:105) The s ~ z y ~ simply i a ensures that such
ambiguity is preserved in a world where we can no longer
distinguish between reality and illusion.
Clinamen:
The Principle of Deviance
Clinamen is the thi rd declension of exception:
the
decline of the swerve.
Detouring around every other thing
in a system that values the fate of contrivance--it
serves
the will to digress.
Jarry rnay borrow this notion from a
classical context (the clinamen in Lucretius, or even the
parenklisis in Epicurus), but such a principle of deviance
also provides a pretext for postmodern philosophy about the
theme of - misprision ( for example, the détournement in
Derrida or the declination in Serres, etc.)--vagaries
that
diverge from what directs them, escaping the events of the
system that controls them.
The clinamen is simply the
unimpeded part of a flow which ensures that such a flow has
no fate.
Not unlike the spiral of Ubu or the vortex of