The newsis as manufactured a productas an electric toothbrush and issubject to the same market forces and prevailing power system.You do not make toothbrushes under capitalismto stop people buying more of them.in the same way, media product is presentedas desirable and necessary, more of it is nicer still. Television, is controlled, not by its…
Among the worst mistakes a prisoner could make was to watch (to notice) another prisoner’s mistreatment. There the SS seemed totally irrational, but only seemed so. For example, if a SS man was killing off a prisoner and other prisoners dared to look at what was going on in front of their eyes he…
…if there is no great machine in the name of which to speak, how is action set, how can action be required, and what is to be done? –excerpt On Nietzsche, by Georges Bataille, trans. by Stuart Kendall, p. 143 Monday is the “day after”. Christmas day was yesterday. I’m never able…
How at that moment— at the limit of the laceration of reason— happiness grows in me from my obvious inability to possess it. We are like the meadow about to be inundated with rain, disarmed under a wan sky. having only one recourse: to carry our glasses to our lips, and to drink gently…
Chance, happinesswhich don’t exalt me,arriving unexpectedly, in calm,I saw them radiating, gently, from their simple exuberance.and I said of laughter, “I am laughter—to the extremity of outburst— so much that it is superfluous to laugh and out of place.” In the wood, the sun rising, I was free, my life rising effortlessly andlike a…
Time lets “what is” fall on individuals. The individual himself (herself) – in time – loses himself, falls in a movement in which he dissolves –is “communication,” not inevitably from one to another. With this exception, that chance is the duration of the individual in his (her) loss, time, which needs the individual, is…
When we use the word “happiness” as defined by our philosophy, we’re not in the first place thinking like tired, anxious, and suffering philosophers, inwardly and outwardly at peace in the absence of pain, impossibility, tranquility, the “holy of holies,” at equilibrium, something that more or less has the value of a deep dreamless…
Chance for the individual is “communication,” the loss of one individual in another. “Communication” is the “duration of loss.” Will I in the end find a joyful, rather mad way of speaking –and the analytic subtlety — to recount the dance around time?* With the spite and obstinacy of a fly, I say insistently:…
“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the…
And so it begins! Year by year as the denouement of Christmas Eve nears, I dedicate myself to make sense of the nativity story. God-in-a-manger, stated baldly. I have not attended a worship service on Sunday morning in years so I can hardly be considered “a believer.” Nevertheless I am compelled to revisit the…
