“First, it should be noted that the death instinct was not introduced to account for the factor of destructiveness, as the later papers on culture and especially ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ might lead us to believe, but to account for a set of facts which center around the compulsion to repeat.”
Paul Ricoeur (Freud & Philosophy)“The unseen suffers precisely from its continued nonappearance in any form and desires only access to a mode of appearance.”
Jean-Luc Marion (The Visible and the Revealed)“In one sense, the expropriation of experience was implicit in the founding project of modern science.”
Giorgio Agamben (Infancy and History)“This is why, in the paragraph on the historical imagination, Collingwood frankly states that ‘as Descartes might have said… the idea of the past is an ‘*innate* idea’.'”
Paul Ricoeur (The Reality of the Historical Past)I wanted to try, even if just in part, to look at the widespread dissemination of bad thinking on culture and art today. The *colorized* Greek statuary topic is a good example. I can only assume the more sober and learned scholars of ancient art are silent on this topic because it’s so obviously going to disappear at some point, gone like most fads, after having run its click-bait course. There are myriad other examples; all the stuff that comes from the WEF (Twink Harari in particular) or the endless planted stories to promote AI as a global life changing technology, one with the potential to create conscious androids or computers or whatever. I wrote last time about the James Webb Deep Space Telescope, and you could include that here, too. And all of this is tied to the rise of the new internet ecology — which is not really *new* per se, but which now forms a rather large cognitive sinkhole in modern society.
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