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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Eugène Ionesco, Present-Past Past-Present (via heteroglossia)

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Richard Serra, East-West / West-East. Photos Nelson Garrido

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“Nothing is more costly than a beginning.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §731 (excerpt).

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National Geographic: Planet or Plastic?

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“Derrida’s writing is strange and difficult because it has to be: to test the limits of what can be thought is to test the limits of what can be articulated.”

— Derek Attridge & Thomas Baldwin, “Obituary: Jacques Derrida,” The Guardian

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Everything about this reflection makes me feel better. Everything seems better in the reflection of the world in the water, even that dark cloudy sky.

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White (male) philosophy’s confrontation of Man and Universe, or even Person and Universe, is really predicated on taking personhood for granted and thus excludes the differential experience of those who have ceaselessly had to fight to have their personhood recognized in the first place. Without even recognizing that it is doing so, Western philosophy abstracts away from what has been the central feature of the lives of Africans transported against their will to the Americas: the denial of black humanity and the reactive, defiant assertion of it. Secure in the uncontested sum of the leisurely Cartesian derivation (I think, therefore I am), whites find it hard to understand the metaphysical rage and urgency permeating those invisible native sons and daughters who, since nobody knows their name, have to be the men who cry ‘I am!’ and the women who demand 'And ain’t I a woman?’

Charles Mills - “Non-Cartesian Sums,” Blackness Visible

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Ricœur’s concept of the fault [la faute] is broad, and neither French nor English provides a term which would do it full justice. It expresses the basic awareness that all is not right with the world, that existence as I live it is always a flawed existence. This is the awareness expressed in symbols of evil and myths of the fall, in the Platonic myth of the world running backwards, as well as in the philosophical concepts of the fall or of the bondage of passions. Using the term in its broadest sense (rather than in Ricœur’s own more restricted, clinical sense), we can say that the concept of the fault points to the pathological distortion of existence.

Erazim V. Kohák; introduction to Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary, by Paul Ricœur (via prof4uxnd)