Figurations are “partial visions” which “provide a sufficiently open space into which to project the possibility of as yet unchartable change” (Bammer). Figurations are “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway). They serve a purpose, and they are playful. Synchronicity is co-happening, co-occurrence, co-articulation, co-operation. Synchronicity is “temporally significant occurrences of acausal events” (Jung). Synchronicity …
Patterns: writing
Genea-logos, the reason of birth
Genealogy avoids the search for depth. Instead, it seeks the surfaces of events, small details, minor shifts, and subtle contours. It shuns the profundity of the great thinkers our tradition has produced and revered; its archenemy is Plato. (Dreyfus & Rabinow, Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 106) To write genealogy is to skim along the …
Writing, ascesis
How can the world, which is given as the object of knowledge, be at the same time also the place where the ethical subject of truth manifests and tests itself? How can we have a subject of knowledge that takes the world as its object through a techne, and a subject of self-experience that takes …
