number, between an
infinitude and a negation of movement, between an
Kook, they demolish "that which is built according to the measure of the world," because they are seeking out the divine
infinitude. (45) In this depiction of the rebels among secular Zionists, R.
In doing so, she illuminates "the relationship between the emergence of a new form of observer, one both radically individuated and simultaneously networked, and a novel form of knowledge production based on assumptions of informational
infinitude, a 'communicative objectivity'" (p.
A temporalidade impropria tende a
infinitude" (Nunes, 1992, p.
Call me vibrational matter shimmering in
infinitude. Remind me of my true nature.
Perhaps no trope of science fiction is as invested in coping with
infinitude as the black hole, which I will read as moments where science fiction sequesters its own attempts at explanation and conjecture, naming an unknown thing or process or phenomenon as fundamentally inexplicable, as literally beyond the known.
We learn that Mort(e)'s heightened consciousness is a gift from the leader of the animal revolution: an ancient Queen ant and her colony who emerge from the underground, a swarm-pack-war-machine of seeming
infinitude both in number and devotion to their matriarch and her vengeful cause.
Kierkegaard (1849/1980) voiced a similar dialectic in describing the self as a relational synthesis "composed of
infinitude and finitude" (p.
Diaz concludes his detailed analysis, asserting that Borges is a better Whitman who employs the rhetorical device of litotes to indicate a cosmos underlying the apparent chaos of the Aleph and to conjure up the impression of the entire world: "The more partial, minute, and insignificant things Borges enumerates (veins of metal, a tumor, the delicate bones of a hand, the shadows of a fern), the more vividly the impression of
infinitude, endlessness, and totality is conveyed [...]" (158).