...always a rage against the blind harmony of an anaesthetized life. Instead, a life amid the salient, the awkward, the pathologized; buffeted and discontent, at peace only in a rough sea.* Is it possible that the very flight away from our experience of pathology misses the beauty of its necessity, removing us from artful expression of …
Tag: ideas
Pathemata
The relations between words and objects is based on historic usage, whereas the relation between pathemata and objects is based on likeness. Aristotle's view necessarily implies that pathemata must be universally similar for all language users since all objects are universally the same. Ludovic De Cuypere, Limiting the Iconic Along the same line of my previous …
Expression
"In culture, any culture, we are bound to that which is deemed possible. In the comparative imagination that can relate consciousness to culture and culture to consciousness, we begin to free ourselves for the impossible." Language Language can be seen as one mode of expressing aspects of the unseen. Through definition we divide and separate the …
Break on Through
"I found an island in your arms Country in your eyes Arms that chain Eyes that lie Break on through to the other side" Jim Morrison Oftentimes it is said that ideas are less important and that action is better; what counts then is what is done or made manifest. The favored status of action, an idea …
A Therapy of Ideas
"Psychology ought to make us feel at home in the world and interested in it and to recognize its beauty. Anything that's beautiful, you fall in love with and anything you fall in love with, you want to keep alive. And that solves the ecological problem and the nuclear problem. You don't want to destroy …
Theoria 