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Civilizations—barbarisms—have gone under never to rise again, and historians are used to marking and dating caesuras and wrecks. But how does one bear witness to a world that goes to its ruin with blindfolded eyes and its face covered, a republic that collapses without lucidity or pride, in fear and abjection? The blindness is all the more desperate, for the doomed believe they can steer their own wreck, swear that everything can be kept under control technically, that there is no need for a new
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― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
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