Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962, p. 169.
He was describing hackers. The term originally was used in the comptuer world to refer to a perso who had the tallent and the knowhow to enter anbd utilize computers when the did not have the specific permissions to do so. Many computer security experts refer to themjselves as hackes because they show computer managers where their vulnerabilities are. Others work for law enforcement, and some work for expionage agencies, Others are theives who use theior abilties to steal or commit fraud. Still other hackers see hacking as a sport and break into computers for the challange.
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.
