As someone that finds himself comfortable at any area of knowledge, I had at some point to make a difficult decision between the arts and the sciences. I like the scientific knowledge because its set of truths is reliable enough to construct thought from. I hate half-truths and obscure reasoning for that same reason. This text from Félix Guattari, quoted by Dawkings and seen in Certain Doubts blog sums up pretty well what I generally consider a shameless attempt to build basements on air:
We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously.
