poetry | photography | philosophy
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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One knows one has hit rock bottom. Verity of verities, to believe in one’s beliefs is necessarily to fail. One hits rock bottom… and realises that images, understood as copies, are done in imitation of one’s cares, of what one cares… to remember – of what one cares to care about. There is no end…
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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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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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Hearing is vision, othered. At some point in history, increasing image resolution started to only have an effect on film, leaving negligible obvious impact on photography. That is tantamount to saying that with the tremendous increase in image resolution evinced in the last decade or so, perceived motion happened to have been affected more drastically…
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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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Prior to the modern movement in the visual arts, painting was an exercise in incomplete realism. Painters had already disavowed that which would interest Heidegger and that which Heidegger would go on to question. Their painterly exercises in incomplete realism, though, attest to the fact that painters, seemingly not interested in philosophy, had through the…
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