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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

“the past is a fire that eats up the present”

“Our vast imaginations pull in the opposite direction from our small, frail bodies.” – from here Consciousness covers itself. Consciousness covers itself with abstractions, with the abstract, as much with materialities, in the pragmatics of everyday life. In the pragmatics of everyday life, the “social absolute”–Seitaro Yamazki’s fossils of

ancestory

ancestors were onto something or on something one way cul de sac unrolling or creeping the surprise of mistaken identity rude not to notice or to kill them again who took who gave their lives who furnished nation who in a thankless nation someone’s darling served a cold dish

the significance of dissolving sugar: or, the earth has lost its centre

The image appears in Bergson’s Creative Evolution of mixing sugar and water. In some readings it is either a lump or a spoonful of sugar. The quantity is unimportant. What is important, Bergson says, is that I must wait until the sugar melts. “This little fact is big with

TikTok war?

this because of this [TikTok]

the end of the end (of history) is not the end of the purpose (that declared itself in 1946)

Dani Rodrik’s policy trilemma holds that “democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.” – from here. D. writes to me the foregoing, under the subject-line, Re: Anti politics at work,

bits of Jamieson Webster:

People were really angry that Lacan said that being melancholic was cowardly–it seemed to rough ride over what in it might be an ethical or legitimate response to loss. But he felt this was too much Romanticisation. The thing about the melancholic is, even if they have the courage

Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go In The Dark

He imagines people on the street looking up from their phones and into each other’s eyes–Hello, how are you? Why are you so sad? How can we do better? — Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go In The Dark, 2022, p. 232 … Why read this book? For the reason