Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley Above all things we must beware of what I will call “inert ideas” — that is to say, ideas that are merely [...]
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Whatever abysses nature leads
Posted in Quotes, tagged Quotes on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Derrida’s Platonic Phiction
Posted in Quotes, tagged Deconstruction, Derrida, Dissemination, Jacques Derrida, Literary Criticism, Pharmakon, Philosophy, Plato, Plato's Pharmacy, Poststructuralism on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After closing the pharmacy, Plato went to retire, to get out of the sun. He took a few steps in the darkness toward the back of his reserves, found himself leaning over the pharmakon, decided to analyze. Within the thick, cloudy liquid, trembling deep inside the drug, the whole pharmacy stood reflected, repeating the abyss [...]
Proust on his deathbed
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Marcel Proust, Proust on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another Floating Library
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged art, floating library, library, photo, picture on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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