outside light (Page 166)

outside light

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from island to volcano

unyielding insularity takes itself tothe arena of its own closure, the quasi-incantatory expending of the ‘I’ towards thecrossroads of its own necessary undoing, an over-exhaustion of the Self to the point of itsirrelevance, its self-excising, its reflexive desolation. Moreover, annihilation would by rightrepresent the most volatile engagement with sacrifice by

Wellington loved us in April

in praise of Linus Torvald and another human being

Am I speaking with Mr. Taylor? Yes. Mr. Tony Taylor? No, his son. Can I please speak with Mr. Tony Taylor? No. I’m afraid Mr. Tony Taylor is no longer with us. Has he got like a divorce? A what? A di-v-horse? No. He passed away. So who is

lucky escapes

.different fronts

thigein & conatus

What is important is that thiscontemplation without knowledge, which at times recalls the Greek con-ception of theory as not knowledge but touching [thigein], here functions todefine life. As absolute immanence, a life . . . is pure contemplation beyondevery subject and object of knowledge; it is pure potentiality that preserveswithout acting. – Giorgio Agamben,

check excerpt: follow link: first time Englished

A Cultural History of Physics by Károly Simonyi translated from German into English by David Kramer then checked against the original Hungarian, according to his son who also brought it out and wrote the foreword by Charles Simonyi