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Alphaville: Outerspace/Innerspace

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”

(William Burroughs)

"The outside bears with the inside a relationship that is, as usual, anything but simple exteriorly. The meaning of the outside was alway present within the inside, imprisoned outside the outside, and vice versa."

(Jacques Derrida, Of Gramatology)