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Review by Robin Mackay - Conscience and Pain, Tragedy and Truth 'The Last Men' (1996)
A Mackay review that matters here as a reception page about metaphysics, truth, and difficult conceptual form rather than as direct numogram doctrine.
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Evaluation is the method. The page clarifies stakes by judging them, which is often how difficult systems first become publicly legible.
That matters because the numogram's secondary history includes these lateral acts of framing, reception, and theoretical alignment.
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Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
Journal of Nietzsche Studies, No. 11, Conscience and Pain, Tragedy and Truth (Spring
Definition · paragraph 7
Mac Daly and Ellis Sharp, "Engels on Video" "The Last Men' Robin Mackay Engels on Video consists of some eight surrealistic and meandering tales concocted around Engels, Nietzsche, Freud, and other figures "famous for their facial hair and authorship of strange, difficult books'.
Definition · paragraph 1
Penn State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Nietzsche Studies. http://www.jstor.org Penn State University Press Review: 'The Last Men' Author(s): Robin Mackay Review by: Robin Mackay Source:
Definition · paragraph 8
The latent narcissism of this self-referential derive (one character asserts "I'm a character in an Ellis Sharp story") which even stretches to a last-page autoreview f A POSTMODERN TOUR DE FORCE), sometimes suggests that this is merely writing for the sake of writing.
Definition · paragraph 7
Nevertheless, Daly and Sharp's generous use of cod-academic gags, gratuitous juxtaposition, and unnecessary floridity of prose may ring a few bells with avid culture vultures. Yes, at last academic philosophers have their own brand of postmodern trash.
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Decimal labyrinths, syzygies, left-zero, and the archive's experiments in number as orientation.