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Critical mass: Intellectual politics and the mode of complexity

Critical mass: Intellectual politics and the mode of complexity The intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups... Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists, and the most representative, the physical scientists. C.P. Snow I am a whirlwind, a disturbance in turbulent nature. Michel Serres charlie blake n an unfinished scene from the Nachlass of Robert Musil's uncompleted novel, The Man Without Qualities, the author, on the morning of his death in 1942, attempts to CRITICA L MASS differentiate two possible intellectual responses to the condition of pre-First World intellectual politics War Austria through the meditations of his protagonist, Ulrich. Ulrich and his sister and and the mode of lover, Agathe, have spent a long summer's afternoon shifting their deck chairs across a complexity lawn in a languid heliotropic dance, as their conversation attempts to trace out the topi- cal patterns of the fiction which elaborates their world, and arrive at some form of tran- or her self-reflection on sunny ruminative sitional resolution to its entangled themes. afternoons. There is no more room for total- Amidst this entanglement, the reader of the ity or certainty in a world in which qualities published text will have discerned a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Critical mass: Intellectual politics and the mode of complexity

Blake, Charlie
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 2 (3): 16 – Jan 1, 1997
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Critical mass: Intellectual politics and the mode of complexity

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The intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups... Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists, and the most representative, the physical scientists. C.P. Snow I am a whirlwind, a disturbance in turbulent nature. Michel Serres charlie blake n an unfinished scene from the Nachlass of Robert Musil's uncompleted novel, The Man Without Qualities, the author, on the morning of his death in 1942, attempts to CRITICA...
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Abstract

The intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups... Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists, and the most representative, the physical scientists. C.P. Snow I am a whirlwind, a disturbance in turbulent nature. Michel Serres charlie blake n an unfinished scene from the Nachlass of Robert Musil's uncompleted novel, The Man Without Qualities, the author, on the morning of his death in 1942, attempts to CRITICA L MASS differentiate two possible intellectual responses to the condition of pre-First World intellectual politics War Austria through the meditations of his protagonist, Ulrich. Ulrich and his sister and and the mode of lover, Agathe, have spent a long summer's afternoon shifting their deck chairs across a complexity lawn in a languid heliotropic dance, as their conversation attempts to trace out the topi- cal patterns of the fiction which elaborates their world, and arrive at some form of tran- or her self-reflection on sunny ruminative sitional resolution to its entangled themes. afternoons. There is no more room for total- Amidst this entanglement, the reader of the ity or certainty in a world in which qualities published text will have discerned a

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Published: Jan 1, 1997

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