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Knowledge
To know is to achieve.
All that we grasp hold close and name - knowledge - is nothing. All that we grasp from the other - knowledge - is nothing.
The sedimentation of incremental observation.
The capture of an object to have learnt and retained for later use despite the absence of the object.
Kant
The thing simply enough seems to be.
Portable nomad train hauler.
The physicist still grapples with universal apperception.
A block lying aside. This is where spirit rises in sensation beyond grasp, beyond being grasped. The spirit closes down the faculties that one grasps with. As the wing and claws and beak of the bird are clamped so too does the hand which closes its fingers around this creature that can no longer fly. The spirit, however, is always in flight.
Kant
Who could have talked Kant out of leaving his ethical mark when no-one before him had been more rigorous and seemingly self-doubting to the point of honesty?
Kant is too often setup as an opposition to Hume's emotional basis for morality. Kant incorporates the physical felt of Hume's foundation into his system. This can be seen in Kant's notion of acting out of respect for the law.
Reason delivers a maxim that physically moves the subject.
Every insanity has its Kantian nest of clausality.
The rules are in themselves; a kantian place of pure abstraction that is real.
Justice
One can show the latent birth of justice in signification. Justice, which must become a synchronic consciousness of being, is present in a theme in which the intentionality of consciousness itself shows itself.
Justice refers to a psyche, not as a thematisation, but as the diachrony of the same and the other in sensibility.
Spider, Isabella Rossellinin, 2008
Jazz
Let the clarinet and trumpet drift from one ear to the other. A mono recording, no dialogue to be found. The multiple in one. Jazz reconciles monotheism with pluralistic relativism.
Joyce
Joyce takes photos of roadkill and goes to Saint Martins'.
Inter
Master and other collapse as the placeholder master falls away with the addition of the third to which the master is slave and so on. The binary gives way to a chain.
The record comes to an end and the mind wanders. Perception builds a concept of time: beginning to end.
Sun striking dew covered grass. Wetting the feet. Slipping under rubber. The we, the group, coming into screen, whipping ourselves calmly. We wish for sinful times.
Interior: the particular tending to the universal. Exterior: the universal tending to the particular. The shore is language.
Image
The body as movement as response, twice signified and once written, builds an image.
Images persevere under the oppression of the IMAGE.
Universalize concept.
Infinite
The twofold significance of distinct moments has in the nature of self-consciousness to be infinite, or directly the opposite of the determinateness in which it is pointed.
Substance, as the universal essence and End, stands over against the individual reality; the infinite middle term is self-consciousness which, being the implicit unity of itself and substance, now becomes that unity explicitly and unites the universal essence and its individual reality.
Whale, Isabella Rossellini, 2008
Imagination
The moving image has laid imagination to waste. This is the result of film enforcing nearsightedness thus giving the biped nowhere to run to.
A series of thoughts, about nothing in particular, emptying themselves.
Imagination counter steers the persuasions of fear, loneliness and aggrandisement.
Imagination invigorates long dismissive sighs.
Imagination
The sire where thoughts and their physiological consequences for receptive bodies are considered.
Without the presence of nostalgia where would our imagination go?
Over there is that which is beyond imagination. Beyond empathy.
The imagination is carried away with its own perpendicular of possible. The axis extends beyond the achievable.
Imagination is existence and it is ethical. The opening of the world lies in imagination, a doorway for the other to come and go. A world of forms within forms unilaterally, where walking through space is taking in place.
Intelligence
Intelligence is not a survival mechanism. One need only to react to light to light in order to survive.
The crack and pop at the end of a record - turn me over.
Intelligence manifests as a putting to use of an object. That is the functionality of form. A measure of intelligence would be possible in the quality and quantity of possible uses. Intelligence could be perceived as a navigation of a body through the world.
Ideology
Thought is provocation, it seeps through the body, movement and arrangement.
Not to buy spinach in plastic bags.
The conservative do not make predictions they spit out historical interpretation as fact.
Improved versions come out later. Hold onto that thought for it does not stay here.
Improvement is not a line straight nor curved.
Take nothing as universal, the context derides dandy little gathering of this is the ought in every case.
Indigenous
For the cypriate the beard becomes permitted for the elders around the time someone close has passed away.
In Arnhem land the ideas lose all of the northern winter fat. It sweats down the ideas and concepts to the essential things for optimised survival.
Where is the empathy with the indigenous subjectivity? They teach them here that the aboriginal did not put up any resistance, did not have the tattoos or whips of the Maori and did not have any of the symbols of culture that they value.
Snail, Isabella Rossellini, 2008
Indigenous
Support your indigenous networks, come along to the new harry potter film tonight. The pale english invaders will not leave the bastards alone. An apology is not enough, they have to be showy about it. Make sure the whole world knows.
The life of the dreaming smells sweeter on the waking side.
Insects need not necessarily know a thing about the seasons literature to amass a most impressive midi. Seventeen hundred by the old rubric. Midden; a pile of shell where the ancestors use to return to eat the molluscs. Look at the giant midden. What a visual image of being withupon this energetic frequency oscillating table. Now we can all hold hand and dance around.
Judgement
Judgement is justice as tool.
Judgement limits creativity.
Above the door of a Georgian Church: Love is judgement and judgement unto victory.
Where no look is afforded hold the pointed finger. Feel judgement. Describe its form in words if you can.
I don't expect anything anymore. I cannot muster the nutriment to hold onto hope.
Identity
'You' are a moveable point of origin in which the direction is focused inwardly.
Every shape of consciousness already contains every other shape.
Identity rise holding cones. Responsible for preservation. Responsible for vulnerability. Responsible for death.
With the rite comes recognition. A community of recognition is formed in repetition.
The lay people need world cups to get some sense of national support to their fragmented ego edifice construction.
Identity
House troubles are distanced by the concept of person. I live with children. It is difficult but not totally soul destroying. Made easier due to the absence of blood line. There is no familiar responsibility upon which tradition is set.
Then I went to the safe place in the folds of memory to find what it was that had been left in the top drawer of the ornate dressing table identity was long gone.
Identity as multiplicity the hayden/hugh/barbarossa persons.
Recognition occurs due to mutual benefit.
Identity
Never go out with a bang, rather whimper into the history books as the geek never could. The too cool to be understood, important but meaningless. Write something to sit on the shelves of well meaning disbelievers to come.
Can you change, asks the voice falling between time back down on a tiny postage stamp. Poisoned particulates of peer pressure to munch on.
Take the word in which the other frames you and incorporate it into the home made lexiconography. This is naming, I.
I waste away on the borders of someone else's conversation.
I Love You, Cat Power & Karen Elson, 2006
Husserl
The paths use and function intersect at intentionality.
Straight lined horizons or none at all.
Humour
I love that no one understands why I persist with writing as
constantly as they bitch and complain about how the world is obstructing
them from doing what it is that would truly make them happy.
Deliberate distortion for maximum comic affect. The first two years of natural chemical processes.
Hope is the disease of the week.
Never
loosen the belt on humour. Keep every action laughable. Consider
utility, efficiency, and accuracy, all these measures of context, lent
over by their father: humour.
Hegel
Consciousness takes on for-other: responsibility in self-consciousness.
Just don't pick them up, but grab 'em behind the head and front of the tail. Reiterated the master to the pauper.
Hegel was a philosophical labourer. Labour is one of the motivations of spirit. Effacement is building.
The reduction of subjectivity to consciousness dominates philosophical thought which, since Hegel, has been trying to overcome the duality of being and hought by identifying, under different figures, substance and subject.
Hegel
Object knowledge = experience.
The ego is caught up in the reflection of self consciousness. Response.
Knowledge collapses into sensation resting upon belief.
Negation authored by the thing-in-itself.
The grasping of thought, which is to say the grasping of the self, is a movement with direction sprawling inwardly. This movement is self-consciousness. This occurs in an encounter with an other.
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