- october 15
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◁ Rilke, Das Stunden-Buch
Ich lese es heraus aus deinem Wort,
aus der Geschichte der Gebärden,
mit welchen deine Hände um das Werden
sich ründeten, begrenzend, warm und weise.
- october 10
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◀ Styx interfusa
„Der Schematism der Verstandesbegriff macht hier wie überhaupt in der transscendental Philosophie für die durchgängie Bestimmung des Systeems der bewegenden Kräfte die Schwierigkeit des Überganges zur Physik. Der Schematism der Verstandesbegriff ist der Vorhof (atrium) des Überganges von den Mte.A.Gr. zur Physik. – Ein Augenblick in welchem Metaph. und Phys. beyde Ufer zugreich berühren Styx interfusa.“
kant op. post.
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late 14c., "aspire or plan maliciously, agree together to commit a criminal or reprehensible act," from Old French conspirer (14c.), from Latin conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," literally "to breathe together," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)), perhaps on the notion of "to agree (by spoken oath) to commit a bad act." Or perhaps the notion is "to blow together" musical instruments, i.e., "to sound in unison."
♥ | - october 8
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◀ Así que hemos decidido que Marcos deje de existir hoy.
Marcos es el nombre de un compañero que murió, y nosotros siempre tomabamos los nombres de los que morían, en esta idea de que uno no muere sino que sigue en la lucha. (2011, https://www.sociedaduruguaya.org/2011/03/majfud-las-raices-del-pensamiento-indoamericano-floracion-muerte-y-renacimiento-ii.html ) * * * * * * * * Así que hemos decidido que Marcos deje de existir hoy. [...] Dicho todo lo anterior, siendo las 0208 del 25 de mayo del 2014 en el frente de combate suroriental del EZLN, declaro que deja de existir el conocido como Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, el autodenominado “subcomandante de acero inoxidable” (2014, https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/27/between-light-and-shadow/)
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◁ excerpt
From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“pluck, pick, harvest”).
♥♥ | - october 6
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◀ Overheard pedestrian on cellphone, Lexington Av
"It's completely unacceptable from an ethical point of view, but if you think about ..."
♥ | - october 5
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◁ Three (1966)
Today but what day? Nevertheless a day, a time. In Spring. Air, sounds, odours remind. Last night emerging. Confronted by a place. Two people. I to them – they to me? Objects in the room placed as seats in an auditorium. They must be rearranged. No key to the door which automatically opens, closes. Cat aware of this. The cat R adores, L ignores. His body arched, L sidles corners, corridor. First to stride forward with a firm handshake. R shrinks into a former self, peers from there, waits for him to step back. Then out, clutched at, carried down to a level she alone breathes, feels safe in. He crawls over the edge, intake of breath as he lowers a string of formalities. I remained subdued. Concerned smiles, their concern in outbidding each other. We want to make you as comfortable as possible – are you sure you're not cold – too hot perhaps? He leans over, neck twists until the joints crack to his satisfaction. There's a double mattress say if you want an extra blanket won't you. She caressed the eiderdown, while he bounced on the bed. How are you feeling now? Feeling–feelings? What would it mean to them what has been will be? When did I begin to reconstruct a moment ago or a space as between waking and dreaming? Patterns reshaped in a form already designed shall anticipate all alternatives, become a measure of a certain consistency. The space between is no less significant than the place occupied at the time. My certainty shall be their confusion.
– a paragraph from Ann Quin's Three
♥ | - october 4
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◀ I leave it to [the reader] to unfold the balled fist into the flat of a hand. – –
Hamann, end of "Metacritique on the purism of reason": [And what the transcendental philosophy metagrabolizes I have, for the sake of the weak reader, reread [gedeutet] the letter of its elements, the spirit of its coronation, towards the sacrament of language, and I leave it to each one to unfold the balled fist into the flat of a hand. – –] [Was die Transcendentalphilosophie matagrabolisirt, habe ich um der schwachen Leser willen auf das Sakrament der Sprache, dem Buchstaben ihrer Elemente, den Geist ihrer Einsetzung gedeutet, und überlaße es einem jeden die geballte Faust in eine flache Hand zu entfalten. – –] [Dashes end the text.]
- october 3
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◁ The Myth of Felt, Leonardo Olschki♥ |
- september 26
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◀ Capital v. 1 ch. 14: the division of labor and manufacture
At the same time, manufacture was unable either to seize upon the production of society to its full extent, or to revolutionize that production to its very core. It towered up as an artificial economic construction, on the broad foundation of the town handicrafts and the domestic industries of the countryside. At a certain stage of its development, the narrow technical basis on which manufacture rested came into contradiction with requirements of production which it had itself created.