Occupy Wall Street: “This Time, It’s Different”
☛ The Atlantic / In Focus: “Occupy Wall Street, 7 Weeks In” November 3, 2011. Caption for this particular photo reads as follow: “Tents at the Occupy Wall Street protest weather a snowstorm in Zuccotti Park, Saturday, October 29, 2011, in New York. The first snowstorm of the season was a test of the protesters […]
“The indifference of trees to the historical moment” by Jean Baudrillard
The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own triumph. The indifference of the body to the revolution. The dazzling metaphysical spectacle of the sameness of faces the morning after the revolution. Their features haven’t changed. You expect a violent illumination and […]
Plutarch and the fear of death
For we indeed do not at all essentially partake of being; but every mortal nature, being in the midst between generation and corruption, exhibits an appearance, and an obscure and weak opinion of itself. And if you fix your thought, desiring to comprehend it, — as the hard grasping of water, by the pressing and […]
