poetry | photography | philosophy
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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‘Totality and Infinity’ is a book. Destroy the book and it persists nonetheless. That happens to be the case with everything… d’oh… ‘Totality and Infinity’ is not a book… about alterity or the Alter or the alterity of the Alter. If one capably destroyed the Alter and with it all alterity, the subject of ‘Totality…
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Who are you? Marco. What are you? I am… Having to state its case, Dasein would not make recourse to being, or assume being, to explain its being… Who/what are you? (simply) Dasein. Dasein is simultaneously identity and substance. Dasein’s concern with its being is concern about that seemingly non-deferrable concern about seemingly needing to…
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Let us take a photograph, any photograph, and look at it. That done, let us now ask ourselves the question: do we see the photographic in the photograph? Clearly, we immediately sense that something is not altogether right in that question; some kind of craft is being practised there; this phantom interrogator, we firmly paranoically…
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