#impersonality

[virtuouslibertines69]

"For her there is no joy, no peace, no atonement. She is a woman who drags a chain like a guilty thing. She is a woman who wears a mask, like a thing that is a leper. The fire cannot purify her.The waters cannot quench her anguish. Nothing can heal her! no anodyne can give her sleep! no poppies forgetfulness! She is lost! She is a lost soul!" -Oscar Wilde, from The Plays of Oscar Wilde; “A Woman of No Importance,”

Impersonality by Black Fury

[elizabethanism]

A few hours before, beside the bonfire, he had attained an impersonality inside of himself. He had been so profoundly himself that he had become the ‘himself’ of any other person, the way a cow is the cow of all cows.

. . . why didn’t I understand that the thing that I could not reach in me was already other people? Other people, who are our deepest plunge! We who are you just as you yourselves are not you.”

— from Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark

[woundgallery]

Andre Bazin - What Is Cinema Volume 1 (full text pdf linked) 

[philosophybits]

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

[elizabethanism]

“A few hours before, beside the bonfire, he had attained an impersonality inside of himself. He had been so profoundly himself that he had become the ‘himself’ of any other person, the way a cow is the cow of all cows.”

Lispector

[somethingpoetry]

Impersonality

[Originally posted on Deviantart on May 29, 2019]

What i've put on the front stage is only ephemeral to me this amorphous being of wires and code titans rise and fall in perpetuity Do you like my personality? cold and calculated forever stoic and static in the mold of the internet i find it comforting amidst the fires of outrage trying to melt this cage with this concept of human emotion Oh, it's so cute how you scream at me in blocks of text like a cat chasing a laser dot or a dog barking at the mailman afraid of what you don't understand don't worry, I'm there with you yelling at the screen we're enslaved to let's do it together so we don't feel alone in this disillusioned world What matters to you or me is fleeting through the web pages it collects digital dust, scattered only to be picked for nostalgia or opportunity the irrelevant will be relative Do you like this disconnection? how nihilistic it all is when the math's done and when we stop pretending that this stone we care into will bleed the act is foreboding many a failure but not enough to send weaklings over the plateau Oh, it's so cute how drama works here like a on and off switch wired to a metronome as sporadic as the time of day avidly seeking confirmation and clicks all in the name of your celebrity don't worry, we're all whores too pimp out our personal info to any who'd pay us for virtual minutia in a demented world What we have to lose here is as tenuous as the air we aren't breathing inhaling the perception of ego through the HDMI cord we make it as bright as our sun Do you like this situation we're in? betting on black when the earth's red with shame and stress of our intentions playing out reality like a inconvenience to the sensation fantasy gives us to the point of fealty swear divinity to the one who controls the power of electricity in this hostile world Oh, it's so fucking adorable how we've not evolved beyond neanderthals screaming and clubbing the cave paintings changing styles like powerpoint slides how vacuous our voices are in it all hoping it funnels into a talking head or fall into the void where it truly never will be heard the tendrils of our PC has made vacancy while our own physical body has vacated What I've allowed to show to myself is just as hopelessly drifting out of my grasp even now I feel the words escape my fingers like sand through a hourglass every year past is like a century through here and though I suffer in the longing of what was I also enjoy the strength impersonality provides how cute of you to act like giving this faceless entity any feature for you to beat your pretense of emotion is a funny anomaly don't worry, I do it too as much as I'm aware it won't stop me hoping this stone will bleed chisel to my principles there isn't none when you have impersonality.

[aishanaomi]

🔮 In its #flawless #grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the #perfect #beauty and bland #impersonality of the #universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent #mystery there resides for me all the wonder and #fascination of the unknown. (at Potomac Club)