Refusing presentation of the world is not refusing the world itself

Evidence

That is not the same thing as refusing the world. Not even Lady Justice, with the sash perpetually about her eyes, can afford such escapism. She has to do her job, after all—she has to hear the disputes brought before her, and she has to pass judgment! She does this, of course, by listening. We mere mortals, though fallible, have the comparative luxury of not being carved from stone. We can choose how we use the sash, and when we look, and when we listen. We can even choose to hoist our sash aloft as a makeshift banderole, a flag and banner to signal for the gathering of friends and fellow travelers, in whose company we can look and listen. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 255

Categorization

• XREF: The refusal-of-terms-not-world distinction parallels the Frankfurt chapter on how the Institute refused the terms of bourgeois science without refusing empiricism outright. — connects to: Rambling undermines narrative because it refuses to report the world. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 181