#david appelbaum

[celestialmega]

The Mentalist - At First Blush by Roxann Dawson, David Appelbaum.

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Blanchot’s rejection of vision as the fundamental philosophical metaphor is well known: “Seeing is not speaking” 25). Furthermore, his central idea of the limit-experience is a “detour from everything visible and ...

[anotherlanguage]

The possibility that ghosts (and hosts) the performance of writing is found at the fringe, near the margin, by the boundary, of the line. It produces a trembling in the identity of the I (that writes, that reads) that induces a loss of distinctness, a sacrifice of definition, and a surrender of determination. The end of the line. The line blurs and disappears in the inked granules of an eraser. The line is presence and where presence is lost, effaced, rubbed away, the ‘natural’ progression of dear and departed presence, dead presence, and ghost follows suite. There, at the end of the line, where the idea of limit is put into question, blurring enclosures, the meaning of “limit,” and specifically, the limit of life, is left questionable.

David Appelbaum, Jacques Derrida’s Ghost

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"The student of seeing has to unlock the mystery first, Eckhart tells us, and it begins—here, now—with the question of who is seeing. Until the question is raised to a new pitch, the intensity needed to undergo the mystery will be wanting." 

 —David Appelbaum, “Four Meditations on Seeing, with reference to Meister Eckhart”

Pictured:  Encaustic icon of Christ, sixth century. St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai

[celestialmega]

The Mentalist - Rhapsody in Red by David M. Barrett, David Appelbaum.

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The Mentalist - At First Blush by Roxann Dawson, David Appelbaum.

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The Mentalist - Cherry Picked by John F. Showalter, David Appelbaum.

[celestialmega]

The Mentalist - Rhapsody in Red by David M. Barrett, David Appelbaum.