The Totality of Relations Existing in Everything: Mallarmé for the C21st

From Santa Fe Institute

Tom McCarthy, SFI Stéphane Mallarmé was more than just a fin-de-siècle poet. As the great modern theorist of the 'virtual' and of negative space; as the combiner (or collapser) of distinctive forms (from writing and printing to visual art and performance) into new, hybrid planes of iteration; as the tentative blueprint-drafter of the 'book-to-come', the vanguard tome in which all that exists is destined to become encrypted; as (in Alain Badiou's words) the thinker of the event-drama in its po...