One spends one’s time wasting time. Featured Image: Salvador Viniegra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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And then infinity
The desire of Alterity is nothing other than the desire of another Being, which is nothing other than the desire of Alterity itself. The desire of Being is nothing other than the desire of Alterity which is nothing other than the desire of another Being which is nothing other than the desire of Alterity itself.…
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After ontology; after alterity
Depth is not, but cannot be contracted. What we lose in the photograph, if we assume photographs are indexical, is scale, hence the infinite. On the other hand, if we assume that photographs indicate, rather than index, then they lead us out of their flatness and back into the infinite. Progeny of photography: stereoscopy and…
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Ego sum, Ego existo
The human eye does not always see in the same way that the photography apparatus sees (here by the term photography apparatus we mean its common iterations, such as film cameras, medium format cameras, DSLR cameras, mirrorless cameras, bridge cameras, compact digital cameras, smartphone cameras, action cameras, etc.). I can be shown an image of…
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The Sleeplessness of Insanity Produces Time
Photographic realism does not capture all nouns. Not all nouns are nouns. The object, that is the something that is thrown in front of one, is the noun proper. When language fails, the Subject is subjected to, thrown under, a Subject, which is subjected to, thrown under, the Subject – which is subjected; thrown under.…
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What time is it? It’s Time
The photograph has no time. Paintings are in Time as extended by labor. The photograph has no time. It makes sense, therefore, to say that Being is or has time as long as it is lost within the time of Memory, a time indefinitely prolonged by making itself indicate nothing other than itself, that is,…
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Cadentia
Time is rapture. Anything that happens in Time, falls out of Time. Literally. Being is Time. Anything that is, falls out of Being, and is. Quite literally. In time, everything comes to be. What is the rupture that causes the rupture? Love. The “struggle between human being and apparatuses” (FLUSSER 2000: 75) is the struggle…
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Boxes
The truth is that which happens. Everything that happens happens. But about something which has already happened, one can always say that that which happened to happen, then, happened to happen, then, only in the mind. But who is to say that that was not the way in which that which happened to happen, then,…
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You are most welcome
Reality is perfection. Nothing outdoes reality, warts and all. Ironically, the most perfect painting happens to be a photograph. Paintings are merely the result of (the intentional or unintentional) poor use of Photoshop (coupled with the use of an expensive and very good 3D printer). Photographs are very cheap illustrations, especially the digital kind; underlying…
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Between the lines and the sheets
My Being is for Time to affect itself. I can pretend it is the same for the Other. One way of describing the manner through which Time affects itself would be something like: “This took x minutes to complete.” One would have very well said the same thing had one stated: “Once upon a time…”…
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