What in A leads to B?

Strangeness. Doesn’t the experience of strangeness, of feeling and seeing the world, or any particular element within it, as strange, invalidate ‘the photographic’, which we elsewhere associated with the experience of recognition? If I am looking at a photograph and experience the seen as strange, then I clearly cannot invoke ‘the photographic’. Indeed! It’s just…

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Photography (it’s been 200 years, my love)

A simile likens dynamics. A metaphor is an index of indexicality. If Man is not told, he would not know. Therefore, I seem to be irrespective of the fact that it does not seem to be the case that I am the one doing the thinking. Irrespective of the omission of any form of cognition,…

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Spot the cow, but missing Luke

We come to witness the light, to witness the appearance of the appearable; and, hence, the desire for the light which makes appear all that is appearable. Memory is the memory of having witnessed the light, of having witnessed the appearable appearing. Henceforth, this light cannot be extinguished. One has seen; one can go.  Photography…

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carrel + mark

The representation and its semantic are in complete arbitrary relation to the represented. The represented has at most a very weak relation with what is represented by the representation simply because in such a case the represented is missing the representation altogether. Commonly speaking we say that it is by pure coincidence that the represented…

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The Being of Being is Alterity

The core of nothing is dead. Red belongs to green as abundance belongs to nothing. Nothing in science can be proven conclusively true. Nothing in science can be proven conclusively false. It cannot be conclusively proven that in science nothing can be proven conclusively true or false. Hence, science is nothing. Science ventures to explain…

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Remember

Change requires no change.  To defeat Time – Mind, Memory. What is the Nothing if not Time? And what is the Nothing if not the Other? The understanding of Being – Mind, Memory – is the only dynamic of Time. And what am I if not the Other? (What if Time is in itself an intention?)…

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The Dream of Tupelo (or ‘the selling out of iniquity’)

The real, the actual, the existent – that which is – these are all based on ontology. But roping in the argument of ontology to describe that which is only leads to circular reasoning, as evinced within the pages of Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’. The real, the actual, the existent – that which is –…

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Confondendo l’occhio con l’obiettivo 

Let us discuss the problem of bokeh. Clearly, no one sees it. Actually, no one can see it. Unless it is photographed. We always look at a photograph that has been captured by (minimally) two pairs of eyes. When we look at a photograph, we actually repeat this dual vision. Hence, it is correct to…

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I hear you

The history of photography has been beset with problems. Early on, photographers pressed the need for photography to be considered an art form. If a table is a table, it is anything but a table. If a photograph is a photograph, it is anything but a photograph. Photography, at its genesis, was tacitly and shamefully…

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