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Desperate attempts to be descriptive. At a deeper level it could have to do with the death of material, as the materialist must attempt to revivify that which is the source of his rationalism. There is a quality of the Catalogue of Ships in their writing, attempting to lend the material an essence, a heroism, without which they would not be able to continue in their inquiries. It is an adaptation to the pessimism towards the object - the same laws of the conflict between rationalist schools of thought, only within a smaller field.
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." This must take on a different quality when one denies the possibility of ends, when the modern form cannot be seen. At a mythic level reductionism must also include its limits, the very territory within which it acts. The post-post-modernists are thus caught up in a satirical form of Aristotle's first and final causes: they can only see the Owl of Minerva as a limit of its signs, modernity extending beyond its wall of time to include all that persists after its death.

The paradox of rationalism is that it must extend its perception to that of the objects themselves, but this only produces an endless series of speculative empiricisms, false realities from which empirical reality can be intuited. This also produces an endless series of partial objects, reflected in the very essenceless relation of materialism to its objects. Acceleration only appears to those who are blinded by the movement of irrelevant objects within the event itself. And pessimism towards the object is simply a means of maintaining the law of non-contradiction once it becomes overwhelming to the rationalist.