small leaps
“The concept of progress is to be founded in the idea of catastrophe. The catastrophe is that it goes on “like this”. It is not what is imminent in each case, but what is given in each case. Strindberg’s thought: hell is not something that is in store for us – but this life here. Salvation adheres to the small leap in the continuous catastrophe.”
(Walter Benjamin)
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Nihilism and individualism — the culmination of a duo
The New Credo/Credo of Today’s life: I am so preoccupied with myself that I can no longer even concern myself with the things I value. Is that what is left all the way down from the Aristotelian ζῷον πολιτικόν?
The free citizen with liberating technology!?
It is surely undisputed that, in today’s global village, we need more information than we did in the villages of the good old days, where the neighbours knew everything about everybody before he or she did. In other words, we ourselves need the data. And that, in turn, means we must learn how to make…
Heliocentric or Copernican ?
Heliocentric or Copernican worldview—is that really the question? Isn’t the underlying question always one of power: a question of action on the one hand, and of ability on the other? In a conversation with my assistant about a poet and Chinese painting, I was instructed by precisely that helpful spirit: Therefore, I would like to…
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 