Sat 31 Mar 2007
At the end of The Ongoing Moment Geoff Dyer shows a photograph by Regina Fleming. The photograph, taken on September 11, 2001, shows the likeness of a man wearing a sign that reads
AFTER DEATH WHAT ? ?
Dyer has just finished detailing the emulsion of objects and scenes—hats, broken benches, barber shops—that make repeat appearances in the great photographs [...]
Thu 16 Jun 2005
目を推??二ツ出??る秋?月 — ?涯
Press the eyeballs And lo! Two autumnal moons. — Sengai, trans. by Daisetz T. Suzuki
Suzuki interprets this poem to mean that reality (a bright and clear moon) will “take on a false appearance” if “obstructed.”
Let’s try Sengai’s experiment. Look at something and, with your finger, press one of your eyes. Now you see double.
Ask yourself: which [...]
Wed 25 May 2005
I’ve been re-reading Nishida’s An Inquiry into the Good and this sentence just popped out at me:
Prior to the provision of the conditions, the accompanying phenomena, that is, the result, does not exist anywhere. (45)
This pretty well summarizes Oyama’s The Ontogeny of Information. It’s always wonderful to be reading disparate works and then to find [...]