I continued to think about the enigma of Dylan after leaving class on Thursday (it might have been the rain) and how perfectly he fit into popular post-modern thought, the ability to have everything fall back upon itself, endlessly. The move of establishment and erasure is a particularly annoying paradox to me (but how strange it is to manifest itself as a human?!) since it seems to have the convenient ability to always account for itself (i didn't mean that, but that is what i meant, to not mean that, so if you think i meant it, i did, and if you think i didn't, i didn't, etc.) I needed to be a little more reassured as to why I would spend time thinking about him, as I was willing to leave him spiraling alone around himself in some corner of my neglect. The reassurance came in the form of reading for another class:
"Precisely a philosophy of concrete life must not withdraw from the exception and the extreme case, but must be interested in it to the highest degree. The exception can be more important to it than the rule, not because the seriousness of an insight goes deeper than the clear generalizations inferred from what ordinarily repeats itself. The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything: It confirms not only the rule but also its existence, which derives only from the exception. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition."
- Carl Schmitt, on something that doesn't really have anything to do w/ music.
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