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Lost Blog Network

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Accepting the reality that there is no cure for our existential malaise keeps us from wasting our life in chasing the untenable goal of healing our lack. That is, accepting the lack of a definitive cure allows us to direct our attention to endeavors over which we have some control; it frees us to pursue modalities of living that are both realistically attainable and potentially even rewarding—gratifying despite being imperfect. Unfortunately, because the mundane objects that contain the objet a are by necessity mere pale imitations of the Thing-in-itself, it can take prolonged mourning to reconcile ourselves to the reality that these imitations, these faint echoes of the Thing, are the only portion of the Thing that will ever be available to us. Yet I believe that those of us who have managed to make peace with this reality possess the best chances for fashioning a life that feels both rewarding and dynamic.

Mari Ruti, “When the Cure Is that There Is No Cure: Melancholia, Mourning, Creativity” in Meaningless Suffering: Traumatic Marginalisation and Ethical Responsibility

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Église de Gros Morne, Gaspésie, Québec, 1941

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Couvent Villa-Maria, Montréal

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Armagh, Bellechasse, 1895

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L'éternel regard de Bophana ! Emprisonnée pour ses lettres d'amour et torturée pendant ciną mois par les communistes khmers, la jeune femme est exécutée à 25 ans. Au Cambodge, elle incarne les souffrances du peuple.

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[philosophybits]

“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”

— Michel de Montaigne, Essais

[randomvintageeurope]

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Cassone. late 15th century, with 19th century alterations. Credit line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/209090

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Fire Bowl. 19th century. Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/47079

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Amanda Wasielewski, Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning

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de Hann et. al, "The Phenomenology of Deep Brain Stimulation-induced Changes in OCD: An Enactive Affordance-based Model"

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Stout Memorial Hospital Wuzhou, China

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For it is not by describing that words acquire their power: it is by naming, by calling, by commanding, by intriguing, by seducing that they slice into the naturalness of existences, set humans on their path, separate them and unite them into communities. The word has many other things to imitate besides its meaning or its referent: the power of speech that brings it into existence, the movement of life, the gestures of an oration, the effect it anticipates, the addressee whose listening or reading it mimics beforehand.

Jacques Rancière, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing