#bff studies

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

Beyond all ulterior frontiers between love and friendship, but also between the passive and active voices, between the loving and the being-loved, what is at stake is ‘lovence’. You must know how it can be more worthwhile to love lovence. Aristotle recalls not only that is more worthwhile to love...and that hence it is more worthwhile to love than to be loved....an it is more worthwhile gives precedence to the act over potentiality. An activity carries it away, it prevails over passivity. 

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

I live in the present speaking of myself in the mouths of my friends, I already hear them speaking on the edge of my tomb. 

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

“strange temporality”

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

For the man who keeps his eye on a true friend, keeps it, so to speak, on a model of himself. For this reason, friends are together when they are separated, they are rich when they are poor, strong when they are weak, and - a thing even harder to explain - they live on after they have died, so great is this honour that follows them, so vivid the memory, so poignant the sorrow. That is why friends who have died are accounted happy, and those who survive them are deemed worthy of praise. 

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

Now, according to Cicero, his exemplar is projected or recognized in the true friend, it is his ideal double, his other self, the same as self but improved. Since we watch him looking at us, thus watching ourselves, because we see him keeping our image in his eyes - in truth in ours - survival is then hoped for, illuminated in advance, if not assured, for this Narcissus who dreams of immorality. 

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

...if friendship projects its hope beyond life - an absolute hope, an incommensurable hope - this is because the friend is, as the translation has it, ‘our own ideal image’. 

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

In two, three or four words, is the friend the same or the other?

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship

[foxnamedkeaton]

BFF STUDIES

If one names and cites the best friends, those who have illustrated ‘true and perfect friendship’, it is because this friendship comes to illuminate...

It gives rise to a project, the anticipation, the perspective, the pro-vidence of a hope that illuminates in advance the future, thereby transporting the name’s renown beyond death...

Friendship provides numerous advantages, notes Cicereo, but none is comparable to this unequalled hope, to this ecstasy towards a future which will go beyond death.

Jacques Derrida / Politics of Friendship