Manicure

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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Umano, troppo umano, ovvero la nascita dell’amore: una nuova fotografia

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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Archytas

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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