I cannot see seeing with my eyes; I can see – but I cannot see seeing. So what I do is pretend the world is a photograph – and now I can effectively see seeing! If a photograph, or, in the actual absence of such a thing, if thinking through photographs, allows seeing seeing, then…
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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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Everything is a function of language. Language collapses on itself. After the dust has settled, the world emerges as always-there. The unsignified nature of the Real; leading oneself to (through?) the absurdity of fact; Descartes. Being finds issue with its Being in being. This implies that this Being must necessarily exist and must know of…
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The photograph shows without seeing. The photograph is dependent on the photography apparatus, which in turn is dependent on the photographer, who, thanks to his seeing, shows it what to show. The photographer can do this because s/he has language capacity. The photographic act is primarily a linguistic act. The world is the palette loaded with…
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Nothing in photography is done automatically. A painter has to manually lay down the image surface on the support using brushes, palette knives, etc. In the case of photography, the laying down of the image surface on the support is done (automatically? No!) non-manually. This is the only semi-credible distinction I can think of between…
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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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A bottle is not a bench. Happiness is not sadness. A bottle cannot be extracted out of the viscera of a bench. Happiness, though, is teased out of sadness itself. All this goes to show that there is a distinction between being and cognition. But is there? Being and cognition are both modes of Time.…
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Science defines a photograph. All science does is define a photograph. To dissect, to analyse, to investigate, to examine, to inspect, to study… actions all done in order to check whether reality is real, whether reality persists. What then, we should ask, is the difference between these actions and the act of remembering? Is there…
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Perception utters, “It must be because it is what it is!” Memory replies, “It must be because it was what it was, and what was was, hence is.” Put the onus on memory, and memory cannot see. Put the onus on perception, and perception cannot know. Perception utters, “It is so because what is cannot…
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Let us concern ourselves with being. If we follow the route set by academicians to easily explain Heidegger to students, Being experiencing anxiety, which it has beforehand occluded, or, which it has been enabled beforehand to occlude, the source of, finds itself annoyed experiencing its experiences as nothing. Anxiety, which Being has made itself blinded…
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