Category Archive: light

Notes towards a Metaphysics of Light
29 Dec

Notes towards a Metaphysics of Light

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. (Heisenberg) I would like to think light as the dynamic interval between events, as a kind of…
Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 7:31 pm By Joseph Weissman 8 Replies
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27 Aug

Everywhere

    What is the nature of the difference between reflection and immediacy, between the orders of thought and of our inescapable exposure to light, to noise, to the proximity…
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 1:33 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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28 Jul

Hinge

    Between the terrible clarity of the sun, and the secret power of the night, a fault-line. Dusk: neither the bright sun of madness or the black hole of…
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:22 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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24 Mar

Production, Division, Excess: Spinoza, Nietzsche and the Event

The essential is never perceived in sheer multiplicity or in first impressions. Henri de Lubac In Nature there is nothing contingent; all things have been caused by the necessity of…
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 4:03 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
29 Jan

Happiness or Justice? Ethics and the Politics of Friendship

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a…
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 6:59 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
23 Jan

Counter-action: Reflections on Sensory Anthropology

Towards a Metaphysics of Noise Let us return to the ‘alternate’ origin in noise, the conditions for any structure. From background noise to blank nothingness to signification: three distinct moments.…
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
21 Jan

Speaking (of) Flowers…

The stone. The stone in the air, which I followed. Your eye, as blind as the stone. We were hands, we baled the darkness empty, we found the word that…
Monday, January 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
09 Jan

Questions for an Ontology of Aesthetics

Are we escaping or returning, gathering together or tearing apart? We find ourselves suddenly in need of a post-conceptual way of thinking. Perhaps this problem of art and machines has…
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 5:53 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Dec

The Monstrosity of Dreams: Beauty after Surrealism

If narcissism could in any sense be said to be the basis for a proto-aesthetics, a necessary condition for the production of any aesthetic intervention whatsoever — if not the…
Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:58 pm By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
09 Mar

Fantasy and Illumination

Have we been led into darkness by honeyed words of light and universal acceptance? Are we so entranced by this spectacle of violent love, so subdued by the pure flow…
Friday, March 9, 2007 at 1:59 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
23 Dec

The Universe is a Network

What do I know for certain? Only this: The universe is a network. The only thing that exists is connection. Energy flowing through fields of force, the teeming struggle of…
Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 12:49 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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