Category: Reading
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Membrane – The ebb
” There they were, all ready to teach me their customs and beliefs, and I did not know their language. They were as close to me as a reflection in a mirror; I could touch them, but I could not understand them. I had been given, at one and the same time, my reward and […]
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Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring | The Great war and the birth of the modern age by Modris Eksteins It’s a brilliant old book written by Modris Eksteins. When we reviews the history of early 20th century, about how the first world war happened, and how it has extended to the second, how the civilized world indulged […]
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Impression
“All archaeology of matter is an archaeology of humanity. What this clay hides and shows is the passage of a being through time and space, the marks left by fingers, the scratches left by fingernails, the ashes and the charred logs of burned-out bonfires, our bones and those of others, the endlessly bifurcating paths disappearing […]
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Merry-go-around
” On the one hand, reality is independent , not necessarily of thought in general , but only if what you or I or any finite number of men may think about it …. On the other hand , though the object of the final opinion depends on what that opinion is , yet what […]
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Circumference
” Abstraction today is no longer that of map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being of a substance. It’s the generation by models of a real without origin or reality; a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, not survives it. Henceforth, […]
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Contour
” The spiritual world is not a world of unrealised ideals, over against a real world of unspiritual fact. It’s on the contrary, the real world, of which we have a true though very incomplete knowledge, over against a world of common experience which, as a complete whole, is not real, since it’s compacted out […]