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Engelmann[Paul Engelmann, Wittgenstein’s close friend and faithful correspondent] told me that when he rummages round at home in a drawer full of his own manuscripts, they strike him as so glorious that he thinks they would be worth presentingto other people. (He said, it’s the same when he is reading through letters from his dead… Continue reading Seeing Life Itself

Besinnung ist der Mut, die Wahrheit der eigenen Voraussetzungen und den Raum der eigenen Ziele zum Fragwürdigsten zu machen. — M. Heidegger, Zeit des Weltbildes

• Wissenschaft • Maschinentechnik • Das Kunstwerk wird zum Gegenstand des Erlebens • das menschliche Tun als Kultur • Entgötterung Die Entgötterung ist der Zustand der Entscheidungslosigkeit über den Gott und die Götter. — M. Heidegger, Zeit des Weltbildes

  Yesterday, after the light was gone; and where is all this leading? And, he is asking, if art, then what for? Or he is not even questioning that, as also the point of questioning it is vanishing fast. “We’re not getting any younger, you know? And not getting anywhere, or at least, so it… Continue reading Why we are disappointed

  I would be ridiculous saying, ‘I love the people,’ since I am the same as they are. Lacerated, but absent. My laceration is more confusing, my absence certainly. —Georges Bataille, Guilty

Es könnte einem geschehen, daß er, beim Rückblick auf sein Leben, zu der Erkenntnis käme, fast alle tieferen Bindungen, die er in ihm erlitten habe, seien von Menschen ausgegangen, über deren »destruktiven Charakter« alle Leute sich einig waren. Er würde eines Tages, vielleicht zufällig, auf diese Tatsache stoßen, und je härter der Chock ist, der… Continue reading Der Destruktive Charakter

What does this mean to nascent ecological awareness? Humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically measured. The worry is not, that the world will end, as in the old model of dis-astro, but wether the end of the world is already happening, or wether perhaps… Continue reading Shuddering Temporality