Apr 12, 2022
“[M]ythology shows an awareness of the nature of the various tasks : research proper brings into play clockwork-like mechanisms and has its seat in a wholly material organ which is monstrous only by its cybernetic complication; discovery, on the contrary, has a magical essence, it is simple like a basic element, a principial substance, like the philosophers’ stone of hermetists, tar-water for Berkeley, or oxygen for Schelling.”
Roland Barthes, Mythologies, The Brain of Einstein