Term
Paradox
used in 110 texts across the archive
“A paradox is any sentence that puts forward a claim or rule to which it is itself the exception, but any sentence and any discourse paradoxically refers to, talks about, a world created by and therefore always running in advance of and behind the sentence or discourse itself.”
In use
“Paradox is constitutive of power and sovereignty as well, a point of supreme importance for absolutism.”
“The paradox is contained within the ethical dimension as well: the deferred object becomes all the more desirable the more barred from appropriation it is.”
“Of course, this paradox is meant to examine our assumptions regarding “identity.” So, it’s still the same ship insofar as it’s still called the S.S.”
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