te naiveled by scene» nd ty That i 10 88Y.90 a0 dorvinaed aut Clr! bacon ‘ois of culture witout : a tashion and the universities. And all these levels are vary ‘On the lave of fastvon, things change very very quickly rane And some Things change Wess rapidly. it's vary Compicated in terns of philosophy So, the problem is {0 ‘ascertain the return of religion ie relevant tothe fist level, the acon nel ott thn | don wm Ha} u He # i wo wadlions sence and | gas: | tik t goes even deeper than al this The question of from the perspective of | Yeigion can be vented wo ways. one can believe. reign. of ;-,01 science ard | ne can study a taigion. One can be a reigous person ot one i ; ji ven uatics For exam. || an bw rogue rstaran hed tr hatte return Hnaly because he was phiosooher | elu of bon ghenarena For mes tne second. One can pressed scenic objects ns | tw study veugione x8 # ty are pat of te human scence Now i fd no scintie | Ge ean study Catan 0 were an ancert reap fot Mar BMoSoOn Is vary good, certany. | “Savagas” One can study fad td an chyective coherence, jst | suppone hat In Hhizome' "nth any coco shady For my ar ie much move moran ing Coenecns betwee Shon he tour lath Regen cl eturing asthe Crch ly have 8 real doa rapport And hats something aa | ye mmc of whatever Rater t's rousing a6 acura on a yas dom ned tiga nore to Doveve | need reupon inorder to shady Nolo pay bu to work to Yd fundamental ‘hypcte dy ‘TB: There's another aspect to tis return: the utilisation of the vocabulary. andthe concepts of religion without Compote bet in thom in Parasite you vse the notions ot tharparoiot, th pemtacont and woon M8: io wse Gores om he Ble. Aso te sory of Joseoh os.ta a good sarin move craps ot Parasol tuded tho sory of Joseph r EoyBt. | staded ha our frat eatoe on sconamcs Erovinng #h evrging Wat Once seemed to be fat ot “Saco vatery now appeared oa as Economie Festory_ kod soe cout see nom te tehavout ofthe poopie of lato as Gencroed me Stes something Mat can rest Ut ‘ven now forte poet ot eo or economie wirasructare SO the sory of Jough was tor me a ovation concerning tne human ‘Sciences. Wn he reum of vengon te po stat sacred texts Sie rat abo Paint. ney ae ons hat one ean std) jot Ie ty omer crarary jet ‘Translated by Ross Gibson Zona ‘zona non profit art space & archives 1974/1984... / box 1486 / firenze italia ON THE BEACH... 31le the ilsion of reerence Tha is lo sa fo_be “about” the South Seas rather ther bout memselves: and the seting and the curtered Mere are represented as refering toa fxternal othe fst and lst page of the tale, pe world. that Southern referents eso expicily je Such isthe dual nature of te South Seas Minis is not to say something 9s simplistic as Mine teal worl. while Finnegan's Ware is sbout ican be no separating the two referents, But a5 concerned to iluminato the twilght area phical actualy (describable in. tecowed Bod ne fantastic ul nonetheless real history ot sang and discovery. Over, one Must start from what is known anc and in stylistic terms this is where Poo stays Bul prot to dscovery one needs a sense ot fot In choosing as his suctual seting the allimagined South Seas, whch antiguty hos Nambivalent promise, Poo ensured that Ns tale athing other than the impulse to many the {t_mytnological compostion wih the ‘lived experience. In short he chose the soting allow him to dit withthe Utopian current that the gulf between myth andhistory Souther myths such ss Poe's and Swit’, fs, Augustine's. Piclem/s .) have certain {10.2 Souther history. there must be value nowadays Tham $0 85 to discover the patterns which st populace. We might begin to. ponder ‘now alitudes ae sil being played upon And then we 160 we realy want? Boe amereeeee cerca mere FooTwoTEs Set a aco ‘Soucee a Pa te Soave Ba S.Eimst Cassver. The Phiosoohy of Symbolic Forms. Vole Tw Myinica thought New Haver: Yale Uwe Poss, 1858, 8 Bob Hawke, ALP. Poticy Sponcn. 16 Feb. 1983 House.n Natonal Reconcilation’ The Speeches Fontana/Colins, 1984. 7 7.EA Poe, ‘Between Waketuness and Seep Poe: eted by Reymond Foye San Franciece baa {8 Donala Stauter “Ihe Two Styes of Poa MS Siye (1967p 108 8.Chates Bauteiaxe, except trom Eagar Allan Poe Workin The Unknown roa pe Columbia Urweraty Press 19 jb i 12.Knsteva,"Say Nal icted by Terry Blake ke: There are people in Paris working on ‘and science — critiques of the relations o land power, for example — but it the work isto do withthe human or soci appears it’s been up to you in France (and up to | elsewhere) to extend the critique to the | should explain a iit of the history of fin France since the war, Before the war. in France, plenty of philosophers preoccupied with scientific had a great traction of philosophy of science and ut this tadition virtually disappeares during the Jean-Paul Sartre was one of those who Philosophy to become less conceined with the any Different Kinds of eses ! Part Two of an Interview with Michel Serres natural or exact sciences. It was he who oriented French Piilosophy to the human sciences, Phlosopers interested in the ‘bract sciences seamed very scarce. For example, lets take the tradition of Althusser I's philosophy of palites rather tan of the sciences: one does analyse questions of the polities of science, bu never really science isel. As for myset. ve done a Tot of work nthe philosopny of science. For 2 long time Ive fet Quite alone in France. We've been distanced considerably rom the German, American and English aditions which’ have supplied us witn all at one knows under the segs of logeal positivism or empiricism. And we in France havent been part Such a tradition. m quite content fo have been outside off al because one can then develop a philosophy thats quite onginal diferent ONTHE BEACH 611 2yegand i 8 &