Yes, look at my transcendence in terms of classical electromagnetism, but in my case the value of the dialectric constant is redefined to be the dialectical permeability of the West itself. Imagine me as a kind of cultural theorist out in the desert with my AT&T apparatus to measure the dialectical constant of the West.

Image from A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Switching Technology (1925-1975):

Imagine such a cultural theorist in the desert, with his AT&T equipment — vintage 1930s equipment, we’re talking analog, not digital — imagine some such experiment where he’s measuring some constant related to the West itself. Imagine this cultural theorist with his Walter Benjamin-style mustache, perched over his equipment, like he’s about to come to some grand cultural conclusion. But then you realize that he’s a cultural theorist measuring this cultural constant in the desert, someplace free of any human habitation, free of even the tumbleweeds. It’s existential that way, and in the final reductive analysis, it isn’t even the West which he’s measuring, it isn’t even certain that it’s possible to measure the West in any vintage cutting-edge experiment of the sort Michelson & Morley once used to disprove the ether. Existentially and otherwise, it’s just a man in the desert.