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vilem flusser, what if? p. 58
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Continue reading →: vilem flusser, what if? p. 58Thinking that hearing and seeing are oppo- site modes of perception is a widespread error. It’s like thinking that the Greeks had worse hearing than the Jews because they saw more deeply, or the Jews had worse eyesight than the Greeks because they obeyed the call. Or that Homer was…
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flusser, quote, lecture, 1991
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Continue reading →: flusser, quote, lecture, 1991We are in the same situation as a magnet…. Everything around us approaches from all directions and all times…. Linguistic thought is bankrupt. Everything comes close. Lines are no more. Progress, regress, all of that is pointless. It comes closer. It approaches, not unendingly, but not exactly in chaos, either.…
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Continue reading →: Quote from Alfred North WhiteheadImagination cannot be acquired once and for all, and then kept indefinitely in an ice box to be produced periodically in stated quantities. The learned and imaginative life is a way of living, and is not an article of commerce. Alfred North Whitehead
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Continue reading →: Quote from D. G. JamesThe vitality and energies of the imagination do not operate at will; they are fountains, not machinery. D. G. James
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Continue reading →: Quote from Susanne K. LangerImagination is the primary talent of the human mind, the activity in whose service language was evolved. Susanne K. Langer
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Continue reading →: Quote from Joseph Brodsky— What is the most important thing for you in life? — The ability of a person to live his own life, and not someone else’s, in other words, to develop his own values, and not be guided by what is imposed on him, no matter how attractive they may…
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Continue reading →: a reflection on flux, permanence and the idealI begin with a quote from Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality: In a previous chapter (Part II, Ch. X) attention has already been drawn to the sense of permanence dominating the invocation ‘Abide with Me,” and the sense of flux dominating the sequel ‘Fast Falls the Eventide.’ Ideals fashion…
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Continue reading →: aesthetics and the process of imaginationReading Process and Aesthetics by Dadejik, Kaplicky, Sevcik, and Zuska. Reading the first chapter where they describe Whitehead’s Philosophy, and the realization that any philosophy is a philosophy limited to a particular context. The benefit of philosophy, however, is it’s ability to transcend itself by way of the process of…
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Imagination calls us to both trust and cast doubt on our own beliefs, and like sand castles, test its ability to stand the weight of improbability.
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Continue reading →: reflecting on thinking that is reactionaryThinking that is reactionary always comes at a cost. It starts with an act of rejection, yet more often than not it remains committed to the logical framework that it apparently rejects. ~ Sepper, Understanding Imagination, 3. I have been reflecting on this particular piece as it puts into words a…




