Yann Moulier-Boutang: Self
Quotes
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Yann Moulier-Boutang : He occupied a place like in The Name of the Rose, like of those monks in the 11th or 15th century, who were observing the things that were going on in the worlds, but felt that... It's a sort of frustration. With him, there was never an end to anything, where things happen, mature and come to pass. This is what overdetermination is all about. There seem to be contradictions, then it shoots off and becomes something else. You think that Cesare Borgia is going to succeed his father, but then he gets a fever, which is malaria, and is absent at the decisive moment.
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Yann Moulier-Boutang : He created these categories, overdetermination, secondary contradiction, effectiveness of an empty structure, epistemological break, and he saw these categories like the forest in Macbeth. The witches say that Macbeth will not reign until Birnam Wood to Dunsinane shall come. And, in the end, the enemy approach the castle disguised as the trees of the wood, and so the prophecy comes to pass. So what is it like for a theoretician who invents concepts to see them march against him? To see them gradually trap him and catch him out?
