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voluntas of a solid mechanics (rank and file). l2
science
has usually adopted the latter physics,13 insofar as it
murders to dissect, declaring martial law on behalf of
whatever is repestable and there fore predictable--the
foederi fati of a terroristic determinism.
Derrida implies,
however, that the clinamen deflects this mandatory destiny
into an aleatory ecstasy: "[tlhe clinamen of the elementary
principle[ ...] would be the pleasure principle" (1984:8)--a
libidinal rebellion:
artfulness disrupting lawfulness.
Serres argues that, for such modern physics, "[tlhe
clinamen is a principal element of homeorrhesis," not of
homeostasis (1982:119).
Atomic events do not be so much as
become:
change.
their equilibrium does not repeat so much as
Even though "the time of the clinamen is not
necessarily simultaneous with leaving the dead to bury the
dead" (99), such a swerve does provide a nomad cognate to
the royal concept of entro~~, be it in a flow of heat (as
defined by Boltzmann) or in a flow of data (as defined by
Shannon).
Just as Lucretius draws an analogy between atoms
(atomica) and words (littera), arguing that both substance
and utterance result from a random complex of combinations
and permutations (175), so also does Serres draw an analogy
between thernionics and cybernetics, arguing that both
sciences theorize the clinamen as either decay or noise.