[FRA:] Zizek & Koenigsberg on The Matrix, Human Batteries & the Symbolic Orde

[matthew piscioneri]

Jim,
 
sorry but I am a bit rusty on my Kant:> In Kant, we can't "know" the object, but all rational agents> necessarily reconstruct the object in the same way -- which is,> effectively, knowledge of the object. It is -our- knowledge of the> object but not arbitrary knowledge of the object.
how does Kant explain it is possible to have gathered "certain" knowledge of the necessary components of construction undertaken by the knowing subject? 
 
cheers,
 
mattP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 > On Jan 15, 2008 8:08 PM, matthew piscioneri <mpiscioneri at hotmail.com> wrote:> >> > I think you have located in Baudrillard the usual suspect reasoning of any type of ontology that suggests either (i) a "more" authentic, "hidden" or "unknowable" Other (Kant's noumenal/phenomenal split is paradigmatic)...(ii) equally so in totalizing critiques (H&A's DoE thesis, Foucault's all truth claims = power claims) that (i) if the Other is so unknowable (Kant) or the simulacrum of a more authentic or original Other, then just how do we gain knowledge of this Other...deus ex machina...the transcendental deduction comes to the rescue. It's funny just how much of a Kantian Baudrillard is. As for (ii) if all forms of reasoning are instrumental and subject to inversion, so too the DoE thesis/if all claims to Truth are really power claims, so too Foucault's theses on power.> >> > _______________________________________________> theory-frankfurt-school mailing list> theory-frankfurt-school at srcf.ucam.org> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/mailman/listinfo/theory-frankfurt-school
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