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The Moses complex’s place is exile.

Ute Holl

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The Moses complex is complex, because its topological space is differentiated as a relationship of ratios, resonances, and interferences.

The unkind and inhuman God of Moses in Exodus reveals himself as a terrifying media agent. This is why the Moses figure insistently returns in the arts and sciences of the twentieth century. It corresponds to the fact that the media initially remain concealed when new laws come in with them. When Moses climbs the mountain, the tablets on which the caesuras of writing will turn out to be there already, while the people are still camping in the desert,...

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