RE: Performative contradiction.

> Alternatively, if
> the claim that 'truth is a fiction' is a conclusion, the last or at least a
> later part of an inquiry or critique, then it might be possible to draw
> certain claims or affirmations from the very journey undertaken in the 
> process of making this critique.

Or, one could do as Foucault does and change the question: in the intro 
to _The Foucault Reader_, Rabinow discusses how Foucault refused to get 
into the question of what is truth, choosing instead to answer the 
question, How has truth been employed?  Whether this is responsible in 
its modesty, or it is cowardly is open to debate, of course.  

John R. Vantine,
NYU