December 2011
41 posts
“I have lived my life in fragments. My artist life was due to the fact that from an early age I needed to learn caution, to avert my eyes, to guard my speech to separate myself from myself, or to reconstruct myself in some eccentric way.”
— Richard Rodriguez
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
—The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852
“What is the necessity of this figural presentation? What is its relation to the concept?”
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“Before knowing whether one can differentiate between the
spectre of the past and the spectre of the future, of the past present
and the future present, one must perhaps ask oneself whether the
spectrality effect does not consist in undoing this opposition, or even
this dialectic, between actual, effective presence and its other. One
must perhaps ask oneself whether this opposition, be it a dialectical
opposition, has not always been a closed field and a common axiomatic
for antagonisms…” —
spectre of the past and the spectre of the future, of the past present
and the future present, one must perhaps ask oneself whether the
spectrality effect does not consist in undoing this opposition, or even
this dialectic, between actual, effective presence and its other. One
must perhaps ask oneself whether this opposition, be it a dialectical
opposition, has not always been a closed field and a common axiomatic
for antagonisms…” —
Jacques Derrida + Hauntology
