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“El espíritu despierta en presencia de lo otro. La negatividad del otro lo conserva en la vida. Quien está referido tan solo a sí mismo, quien se aferra a sí mismo, carece de espíritu. El espíritu está caracterizado por la capacidad de "soportar la negación de su inmediatez individual, el dolor infinito". Lo positivo, que borra toda negatividad de lo otro, se atrofia para convertirse en ser muerto".”
― Im Schwarm: Ansichten des Digitalen
― Im Schwarm: Ansichten des Digitalen
“By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history. Being someone is all very well for smart parties where everyone is telling their story, it's all very well for psychologists' consulting rooms. But isn't being someone also a social obligation which trails in its wake – for one has to be faithful to the self-portrait – a stupid and burdensome fiction? The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life.”
― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
“En tales extremos de soledad, nadie podía esperar la ayuda de su vecino; cada uno seguía solo con su preocupación. Si alguien, por casualidad, intentaba hacer confidencias o decir algo de sus sentimientos, la respuesta que recibía le hería casi siempre. Entonces se daba cuenta de que él y su interlocutor hablaban cada uno de una cosa distinta. Uno, en efecto, hablaba desde el fondo de largas horas pasadas rumiando el sufrimiento, y la imagen que quería comunicar estaba cocida al fuego lento de la espera y de la pasión. El otro, por el contrario, imaginaba una emoción convencional, uno de esos dolores baratos, una de esa melancolías de serie.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere to anywhere, for in the deep sea there is no compass but nearer and farther, higher and lower, the jellyfish hangs and sways; pulses move slight and quick within it, as the vast diurnal pulses beat in the moondriven sea. Hanging, swaying, pulsing, the most vulnerable and insubstantial creature, it has for its defense the violence and power of the whole ocean, to which it has entrusted its being, its going, and its will.
But here rise the stubborn continents. The shelves of gravel and the cliffs of rock break from water baldly into air, that dry, terrible outerspace of radiance and instability, where there is no support for life. And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking....
What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?”
― The Lathe of Heaven
But here rise the stubborn continents. The shelves of gravel and the cliffs of rock break from water baldly into air, that dry, terrible outerspace of radiance and instability, where there is no support for life. And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking....
What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?”
― The Lathe of Heaven
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