quote for today

i'm just starting this book... don't know if i like it yet, but it's good ol' new philosophy.... "The Age of Enlightenment was very instrumental in categorizing as irrational any reason not formed by science. Now I maitain that there is as much reason in the works of Montagne or Verlaine as there is in physics or biochemistry and, reciprocally, that often thre is as much unreason scattered through the sciences as there is in certain dreams. Reason is statistically distributed everywhere; no one can claim exclusive rights to it. "This division thus is echoed in the image, in the imaginary picture that one makes of time. Instead of condemning or excluding, one consigns a certain thing to antiquity, to archaism. On no longer says "false" but rather, "out-of-date," of "obsolete." In earlier times people dreamed; now we think. Once people sang poetry; today we experiement efficiently. History is thus the projection of this very real exclusion into an imaginary, even imperialistic time. The temporal rupture is the equivalent of a dogmatic expulsion." --Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour). Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. (1990 trans. 1995). pp. 50.