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This distinctive punctuation - (the dash) reveals an ambiguity at the heart of absolute knowing.
For he dash combines hesitation and acceleration.
Its orientation is simultaneously retrospective and prospective.
It both holds back and propels.
It severs and connects.
It demurs and insists.
It interrupts and prolongs. It generates nonsequiturs and produces explanations.
It leads in all directions: continuation, deviation, meaningless termination.
On the dialectic
This challenges every cliché about the Hegelian dialectic as a machine of uninterrupted teleological progress. The dialectical movement is, rather, structured by intermittency, interruption, hesitation, blockage, abruption, and random, unpredictable change—a rhythm that displays all the vicissitudes of the Freudian drive.
In other words full of dashes - - - - - - etc
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