Perfect is an adjective meaning thoroughly done (Latin per-fectus) and thereby done with care and eventually too, then, completed or free of fault. If, as a general rule, what is beautiful is that which is perfect, then neither everyone nor everything can be equally beautiful. Conversely, if, as a general rule, what is beautiful is…
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Heraclitus
As we have seen elsewhere, experiencing the gods in Ancient Greece amounted to experiencing the ever-living within the ephemeral, hence the immanence of the sacred, its presence here and now. And we also know that, in this context, the poet is, to paraphrase Hölderlin, the priest of the immortal gods – s/he who sings their…
Of Poetry, Gods, Heroes & Mortal Things
The Greek gods are a matter of poetry. First, we know of them through the verses of various Ancient Greek poets; eventually poet-philosophers, but poets in any event. Secondly, their very presence – ultimately, their very being – makes sense in poetic terms alone. In other words: talking of the gods meant in Ancient Greece…
On Pasolini’s Medea
There are – among others, to be sure – three fascinating things in Pasolini’s Medea, which I recommend you to watch here before reading this post. First, a necessary distinction between meaning and sense. Inevitably, one wanders about the specific meaning of certain issues: which are the phases of the human sacrifice offered in Colchis,…
Plato, Author of a Tukano Myth
Is writing so very useful? A Tukano myth tells that Yepa [Huake, the demiurge] said to Yupuri Bauro, the chief of the Tukano: “In this world, you will have several riches: ritual ceremonies, feathers, arrows, blowguns, benches… Your riches will remain in your homes, the homes of the Tukano – it is there that your…
On Sade
I. Which Sade? It is quite easy to ignore Sade(*). One just needs to place his writings on the shelf of psychosexual deviations. And yet it is only inexactly that Sade is called a pornographer. Pornologist might be a better term. But then again, this term, too, tells us very little – if it tells…
The Outside of Thought
It is not only that attempting to write while lacking a certain degree of sensitivity is not possible at all. But that writing is, we may say, a sensitivity event. Yet there is no sensitivity but towards the Other – for sameness moves, instead, to recognition. Now, showing sensitivity towards anything means to let it…