I used to use the word “critique” a lot at that time. I said to myself, “I am not a philosopher or a literature, but a critic. It simply means that I am critical. I thought that instead of creating something new by combining existing thoughts, we should try to clarify the mechanisms that make existing thoughts possible. Without such work, thought will follow the existing system and be content to do as much as it can there. Existing systems of thought, no matter how radical they are, if they are only repeated, they will be absorbed into the existing regime and become something that supports it. To “confine” myself inside, to face the outside: my mystery, the memoirs of Gyojin Emaya⑯｜Jinbundo
I see. Unlike Yukito Karatani’s time, in 2024, I don’t think we can avoid large-scale language model in order to “elucidate the mechanism that makes existing thought possible”. It is the same as [People who don’t look at the moon through a telescope.
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