Term
Abstracting
used in 16 texts across the archive
“Metaphysics aims at abstracting declarative culture from the ostensive-imperative world as completely as possible—metaphysics never comes to an end because this abstraction can never be complete: the world can never be completely described through declarative sentences that are comprised of words that can themselves be defined in declarative sentences without ever having to come to rest upon an ostensively defined word— ultimately, a name.”
In use
“If I keep returning to and abstracting from the center, I head towards the creation of requests to the center that are simultaneously their own answers.”
“Rather than abstracting mass organization from social interaction, the observation of social interaction itself would have to become the source of models for technological transformation.”
“They will be the source of economic dynamism, abstracting themselves and everyone else ever more thoroughly, and generating new forms of technology out of all the newly possible configurations.”