The Banana Peel Project

Another beauty from BALLARE: an ostensive definition of life as an open question.

We have to start at experience, because “there is only a ‘knowing’ from a perspective” (Nietzsche, Genealogy 86).
The Self cannot experience its own crystallization, because experience depends on there being a perspective. Totalities are always invisible precisely because they are all encompassing.
The Self can, however, experience its own dissolution to the extent that it […]

Then the pointer hits Sandy and he picks up a task, a slip of paper.  It is in Gretch’s handwriting, and it says: “Go out and build a fire.”  He reads it out loud and just keeps staring at it.  Then they all stare at him, waiting for him to get up and go out […]