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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
(Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Plutarch (via verbal-betrayal)
To reverse Platonism is first and foremost to remove essences and to substitute events in their place, as jets of singularities.
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (53)
“Heidegger was a weatherman. He served in the end of World War I as a military meteorologist on the western front, northeast of Verdun, France, in the Erstatz-Bataillon Infanterie-Regiment 113, Frontwetterwarte 414, from late August until November or December 1918. In letters he wrote to his wife Elfriede in July after arriving in Berlin, Heidegger said that he expected to learn a great deal in the next weeks, and mentioned his desire to acquire a scientific book on meteorology. He told her that his job would be to provide “observations of temp., barometer, wind, etc. expertly and systematically for artillery and pilots,” and later sent her a picture of his quarters in the field, which showed a small observation tower where he must have sat on duty. It is not clear exactly what he did as a meteorologist, but a glimpse comes in a September letter home written after he had arrived in the field: up early in the morning, Heidegger “sits at the telephone and gives a copious amount of numbers to artillery, air ship troopers, gas offic., etc.” The rumour that he helped to plan gas attacks against the Americans turns out to be unsubstantiated, but he clearly was involved in gathering essential data about wind speed and direction for war in the air; weather was always a critical part of warfare, but gas warfare requires prediction about wind direction (lest the gassers be poisoned themselves). Heidegger’s rank was Luftschiffer—literally, captain of the air—and he had a front-row seat before one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive atmospheres: the cloud of poison gas.”
-John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
A mere breath might have changed us into light.
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (via peyr)
“A writing is not meant to be understood. You are not obliged to understand my Ecrits. If you don’t understand them, so much the better. It will give you opportunity to explain them.”
Lacan, Seminar 20
“Meaning occurs only when a discourse is translated into another discourse.”
-Ecrits
It is precisely the insatiable identity principle that perpetuates antagonism by suppressing contradiction. What tolerates nothing that is not like itself thwarts the reconciliation for which it mistakes itself. The violence of equality-mongering reproduces the contradiction it eliminates.
Adorno, Negative Dialectics
In its rational form [dialectics] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence; because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary.
Karl Marx, Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital: Volume 1 (1873)
The goals of the reformers were varied, but their method was always the same. They sought to enlist the hands of the central government to sweep everything away and rebuild it according to a new plan of their own devising. Each felt that only the state was equal to such a task. The power of the state, they argued, ought to be as unlimited as its prerogatives. Their only purpose was to persuade the state to use its power appropriately.
Tocqueville, L'Ancien Régime and the French Revolution
Whether or not one is a Marxist, it is now commonly thought that the history of humanity is primarily founded on the dynamism introduced by a succession of ways of producing use value and exchange value of the materials that the environment provides. But it is fair to question whether this pre-eminence ascribed to the process of productive objectivization applies generally to all societies. To be sure, humans have always and everywhere been productive; everywhere they have modified or fashioned substances intentionally in order to procure themselves the means of existence, thereby exercising their capacity to behave as agents who impose specific forms and purposes upon matter that is independent of themselves. But does this mean that this kind of action is everywhere apprehended in accordance with the model of a relation to the world known as “production,” a model so paradigmatic and familiar to us that we have become accustomed to use it to describe extreme heterogeneous operations carried out in very diverse contexts?
Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture
The council also issued decrees prohibiting the planting of certain crops on land deemed inappropriate for the purpose. One even finds orders to uproot vines planted in what the council deemed to be poor soil. This shows how far the government had already moved beyond the role of sovereign into that of guardian.
Tocqueville, L'Ancien Régime and the French Revolution
Air does not show itself. As such, it escapes appearing as (a) being. It allows itself to be forgotten even by the perceptual ability of the nose. Except in those cases where human activity has fabricated the air to begin with. Air remains the unthought resource of Being.
Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
… these things we depend on, they disappear.
Louise Glück, from “The Night Migrations,” Averno: Poems (via words-and-coffee)
Ontology, whatever else it is, is usually just forgotten infrastructure.
John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
Fucking perfect zen enlightened asshole over here who thinks they’re hot shit because they can control their emotions like some fucking emotion-president. Some fucking emotion general. Commands the emotions. Get fucked. I’m not having any of this.
(via fantasticallyfilipino)
The bike between her legs was like some hyper-evolved alien tail she’d somehow extruded, as though over patient centuries; a sweet and intricate bone-machine, grown Lexan armoured tires, near-frictionless bearings, and gas filled shocks. She was entirely part of the city then, one wild-ass little dot of energy and matter, and she made her thousand choices, instant to instant, according to how the traffic flowed, how the rain glinted on the streetcar tracks, how a secretary’s mahogany hair fell like grace itself, exhausted, to the shoulders of her coat.
William Gibson, Virtual Light, p. 125. (via bustakay)
