“But the plants seemed to remind me that we are by no means at the center of planetary telos because there is no center, only the distributed emergence of complexity and its dissolution (cosmos).”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.com
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org