The title of this blog is shamelessly stolen from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s The View from Afar, the third volume of his structural anthropology series. Shamelessly, because my ambition, if necessarily on a smaller scale, is the same as his: to penetrate the inflation of subjectivity made possible by cheap, counterfactual cognition.
[S]truralism reintegrates man into nature and [makes] it possible to disregard the subject––that unbearably spoilt child who has occupied the philosophical scence for too long now, and prevented serious research by demanding exclusive attention. (The Naked Man, 687)
No one practises structuralism anymore and the subject is still with us. This blog is an attempt to look at the mirror and not the image.