poetry | photography | philosophy
There is no trace of alterity in Being; in Being, nothing. One returns to the world, without actually returning anywhere. One returns to the world, without movement, as oneself, that is: one returns, without return, to the world, as what one is and always was, as oneself as Human Being. To be human is to…
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The photograph obtained through the analogue photography apparatus is an abstraction. The photograph obtained through the digital photography apparatus is a further abstraction. Realities (in this case, digital), such as social media, aim at reinserting these abstractions into a space-time continuum, which is yet another abstraction. (The digital, just like the physical snapshot photo album…
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The eyes cannot see numbers or letters of the alphabet, only their glyphs. A 1-bit image would do away with sub-pixels and interpolation. There are no gradients in the pixel. The world can be reduced to numbers, quanta, but Man cannot see these, only understand them. And Man needs the machine to rerender the…
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Nothing is done automatically through photography. Good photographs differentiate themselves from all the rest of any other sort principally by being informative – interesting: not boring. It is difficult (if not downright impossible) to take a bad photograph seeing all means are provided, and all means function (quasi-?) automatically. (And in the quagmire of uninformative…
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All modes of representation are symbolic containers, symbolically containing the world. The world instates itself as it is. How beautiful one’s existence when nothing matters. Like Dasein, ‘the photographic’ only matters when it matters. Featured Image: Untitled (from personal project Dirty Paradise: in search of a lost photograph). Photographed May 2019 at Marsa and April…
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Photographic. Memory. Mind not death, but the mind of the Other. Language is that which one invariably puts into words. This is the programme. “The existential-ontological constitution of Dasein’s totality is grounded in temporality” (HEIDEGGER 1962:488). …If only when put into words… Language – not Ontology, and not Alterity, that is to say: not Being…
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Words can be transmitted through sound or they can be transmitted through writing. As sounds or as written signs, words are invariably read. As sounds, they are read and understood by being heard by our hearing apparatus; heard words are heard by our ears that hear, and thereafter understood by simply having been heard by…
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Love does not care for Being. If the Being known as Dasein is defined as care (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if “the ontological meaning of ‘care’ is temporality” (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if temporality situates in the world (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if “the ontological constitution of the world […] must then likewise be grounded in temporality” (HEIDEGGER…
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I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’ (Plath 1-5) Ontology is merely the symptom. Alterity holds no sway over visual perception. The eyes strip the otherwise…
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‘The photographic’ is the dynamic of perception: “it necessarily cannot be otherwise” Featured Image: Dynamis. February 2023 at Valletta. Photograph by the author.
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