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| Poster (© 2019) Roy R. Behrens |
Morse Peckham,
Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior and the Arts. New York: Chilton Books, 1965—
Our lives are bathed in a continuous flow
of signs which we interpret to catch the world in an ever-shifting
network of categories. The condition of human life is continuous categorical metamorphosis. We are forever engaged in constructing around us an architecture of categories as fluid and yielding to our interests as the air. There is nothing man has not sacrificed, including millions of his fellow human beings, in the vain effort to fix that architecture, to stabilize his categories. But all knowledge, all
science, all learning, all history, all thought are unstable, cannot be
made static, even by the majesty of the law armed with the power of
brute force.
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| Morse Peckham, Man's Rage for Chaos |
