Where did One go? Am I still One when I analyze, or am analyzed? Yes, but with an unidentifiable identity, without a fixed center, or mortiferous* repetition; serial music rather, a dance improvised and yet supported by an underlying, open order. …a long history that never stops coming back, catching up with us. p….
Getting started is the crux of the matter. The ending depends upon the beginning, or as T. S. Eliot wrote in Burnt Norton: Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past. What immediately follows, the very next line dumbfounds me.. If all time is eternally…
A few days ago I stopped in at the Roadster Shop in Mundelein. This business builds custom street roads for customers all over the United States. They have been kind over the years to allow me to shoot photos of their work parked on the showroom floor. I can hardly remember a time when…
Last night we viewed “Stowaway,” a Netflix film about a three man mission to Mars. Or rather, a two woman, and one man mission that becomes a four person mission with the discovery of a stowaway, after the launch of the spacecraft Kingfisher. The acting is excellent. Toni Collette is mission commander Marina Barrett. …
It is not often that I offer more than one post per day. Since this is EARTH DAY I am obligated to draw attention to the matter that is before all of us. Are we not at a “live or let die” juncture? We are “of the earth” and will surely share whatever is…
Πολιτεία (Politeia) The Greek word translates into English as Republic. It is the title of Plato’s well known work, The Republic. The Greek word comes from the term polis, a description of a commercial, administrative community such as Athens in her heyday, a city-state. A polis is more sharply defined is the administrative and…
My reading in Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need To Believe continues. Here are some quotations from the book that are particularly arresting this morning. What is art? …adventures of immanence. Infinite intellectual love (literature, art, etc.) when they are carried out and received not as “objects of consummation” but as the very being of…
In fact, we are the orphans of a reality that came too late and which is only, like truth, an “official report” in “delayed time.” Excerpt, Radical Thought by Jean Baudrillard Yesterday, while driving, listening to an interview on NPR, I heard this story. In Kane County where I presently live, the county government has…
…it is the world that must proceed to its own analysis. It is the world, not reality, that must be revealed not as a truth, but as an illusion. We must trap reality, we must go faster than reality. The idea too must go faster than its own shadow. But if the idea goes…
The requirement of this thought is double and contradictory. It does not consist in analyzing the world to extract from it an improbable truth. It does not adapt itself dialectically to the facts and abstract from them some logical construction. It is much more subtle than that, and more perverse as well. This thought…
