Marks

If a marking is a classifying judgement and if a classifying judgement is a mark, one might suggest, up to a point (either of principle or pride) that the first and only real condition of a classifying judgement is just to mark x as x and only that, in reference to whatever arbritrary schema whatosever. Embalmed ones, mermaids, suckling pigs, and so on – this goes here.

But then, a schema is already an aggregate of markings. A discrete series of incidental demarcations, a secret set of drawn-up regulations. Indeed: a set of rules which serve to regulate what can legitimately be drawn at all, and what cannot.

But from where do such assemblages derive their own legitimation? No doubt: there always is a higher power. But precisely for this reason, there is ultimately no final power. Everbody is ultimately always answerable to someone else, elsewhere.

And the dream is, of course, to locate oneself is this elsewhere. Though perhaps this is a fascist dream. It is difficult to tell.