Binaries
To be or not to be, woman and man, black and white, hot and cold, rich and poor, penis and vagina, internal and external. Opposites we think by and work by. Yet there are things with no opposites. Can you think of the opposite of you? What is the opposite of a wall?
We work with binaries but they don't always work with us. Do things break down when we can't break them down into presence and lack, 1 0 ? But why do we work with them to begin with? Is is biology (dosn't feel right)???? Is it the nature of language? Is it myth? Then why this particular myth? Is it problematic? Do we do anything about it?
I try to imagine a world without binaries. It would probably be irrational (oh bliss!). Try to imagine a world without numbers.
To be or not to be, woman and man, black and white, hot and cold, rich and poor, penis and vagina, internal and external. Opposites we think by and work by. Yet there are things with no opposites. Can you think of the opposite of you? What is the opposite of a wall?
We work with binaries but they don't always work with us. Do things break down when we can't break them down into presence and lack, 1 0 ? But why do we work with them to begin with? Is is biology (dosn't feel right)???? Is it the nature of language? Is it myth? Then why this particular myth? Is it problematic? Do we do anything about it?
I try to imagine a world without binaries. It would probably be irrational (oh bliss!). Try to imagine a world without numbers.