television begins, the more sophisticated it gets, to produce and live by an antinomy, a phenomenon whose strength lies in its contradiction

We are limited by mortality, illness and impediments set by the physical world. Technology is one response to this antinomical situation.

Cesaire moved away from the antinomic quality of this analysis, even if only partially

An antinomy is a problem of language similar to a paradox

We are thus caught in a Kantian antinomy (though it would be too obscene to call this ‘the antinomy of Holocaust reason’): while any positive reference to the Holocaust amounts to its instrumentalisation, the reduction of any reference to the Holocaust to such an instrumentalisation (i.e. the imposition of total silence about the Holocaust in political discourse) is no less unacceptable.

A false antinomy (between ‘calculation’ and ‘affects’) par excellence