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La gigantomachie (guerre des Dieux et des Géants) par Jan Luyken (entre 1649 et 1712)

En creux s’esquisse l’homme du futur cybernétique, dont Rappin trouve la meilleure approximation actuelle dans la figure de l’homo sacer du philosophe Giorgio Agamben. Au temps de la Rome antique, ce terme désignait un individu exilé par la société, qui le privait de ses droits et l’excluait de sa loi. Or, toute Loi exige une distance – celle de la représentation -, une limite entre les faits et leur jugement. La fluidification cybernétique abolit justement toute limite de cette sorte au profit d’un état d’urgence permanent. À terme, son utopie est celle d’une société sans lois, une immense voie de fait contre laquelle aucun droit n’est opposable.

1. Take a suitably lengthy, informative, and arcane wikipedia entry - my suggestion is this on Noah's Ark.

2. Use as many of the original language reference and most arcane features in said entry to trace a genealogy of said "symbol" (remember to introduce the most esoteric or unusual by beginning with "As everyone knows")

i.e "As everyone knows Muhammad ibn al-Tabari's 915 work تاريخ الرسل والملوك suggests the donkey was the last animal on the ark, and the means by which Satan entered".

3. Make analogy between said entry and a feature of the current geo-political situation (i.e. Noah's ark as symbol of vanguard exodus), i.e.

"the donkey, as the entrance of the Satanic principle into exodus, is the prophetic sign of its fatal contamination in modernity by the biopolitical reduction of the subject to bare life."

4. Remember to make every such sign or symbol reversible: so "the donkey is at the same time the messianic sign of bare life transfigured: "And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written" (John 12:14)".

5. Add in some contemporary reference, perferably to pornography / contemporary media events / some index of the present

(ok, so the donkey conceit will now end...)

6. And loop around again