The Truth of Constructionism

The whole dear notion of one's own self -- marvelous old free-willed, free enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of the self -- is a myth. ~ Lewis Thomas, from "The Lives of a Cell"

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. . . We multiply distinctions, then
Deem that our puny boundaries are things
That we perceive, and not that which we have made.

~ William Wordsworth, "The Prelude", Book III

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If I ask about the world, you can offer to tell me how it is under one or more frames of reference; but if I insist that you tell me how it is apart from all frames, what can you say? ~ Nelson Goodman, from "Ways of Worldmaking"

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Every version of an "other" . . . is also the construction of a "self". ~ James Clifford, from "Writing Culture"

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PHOTO; Sculpture, Musee Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007