All posts filed under: labyrinth

Exology of the City

Thursday, September 13, 2012
by Joseph Weissman
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acceleration / becoming / exhaustion / labyrinth / metaphysics / ontology / potentiality

How to think the infinity of the city, where all is fire and shadow? How could we hope to see into its opaque and terrible darkness; or hope to enjoy a view unblinded by its brilliant light? A city explodes into a world; perhaps under the tension of this polar opposition — fragments under the weight of its multiplicity — becomes a cosmos, all streams of flowing light and immense structuring voids… The dromology at […]

On Borges: Labyrinths

Friday, November 16, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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becoming-animal / borges / infinity / jorge luis borges / labyrinth / literature / madness / maze / minotaur / multiplicity / pride / sacrifice / salvation / transmutation / work

I deny, with the arguments of idealism, the vast temporal series which idealism admits. Hume denied the existence of an absolute space, in which all things have their place; I deny the existence of one single time, in whcih all things are linked as in a chain. The denial of coexistence is no less arduruous than the denial of succession. (Jorge Luis Borges) The maze is (a) work, mazes are always at work within work. […]