Objects, philosophy, Serres
If you ask philosophy for bread, what you get are nice words and representations. If you ask it for bread it has only circuses. It lives on relationships, on the human sciences, in myth and and antiquity, without leaving the village of our childhood; it has mo world, produces no things, provides no bread….
….Sciences that are not acquainted with objects can only rely on sleuthing and policing, they are caught up in myth. Objective knowledge creates present history whereas the human sciences lead to mythology. The observer weaves in the light of day what the surveillant undoes during the night. What is more frightening? … Serres…
