Great philosophical acts originate in clumsy, home-made simplicity beneath polished surfaces

Evidence

The implication, however, is that we should at least dispel all the ideological illusions of technological progress; and that something has been gained when we restore to all human action and thought this ineradicable dimension of clumsiness — its home-made characteristics, its unspecialized core of popular mechanics and uncoordinated infantile experimentation. The objects may be as complicated as you like, as complex as the history of philosophy itself, but when one comes to the great acts of thought and conceptualization — those of Kant or Hegel, Galileo or Einstein — what must be recaptured is the crude and preemptory simplicity — when not simple-mindedness — with which they finally decide to shatter one rock upon another. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 486

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Levi-Strauss’s bricolage concept (named later in the passage) and with the reader’s interest in how aesthetic form encodes ideological position.