istmos

[istmos]

[reversus]

#reversus

[istmos]

"Il valore della sconfita Penso che sia necessario educare le nuove generazioni al valore della sconfitta. Alla sua gestione. All’umanità che ne scaturisce. A costruire un’identità capace di avvertire una comunanza di destino, dove si può fallire e ricominciare senza che il valore e la dignità ne siano intaccati. A non divenire uno sgomitatore sociale, a non passare sul corpo degli altri per arrivare primo. In questo mondo di vincitori volgari e disonesti, di prevaricatori falsi e opportunisti, della gente che conta, che occupa il potere, che scippa il presente, figuriamoci il futuro, a tutti i nevrotici del successo, dell’apparire, del diventare… A questa antropologia del vincente preferisco di gran lunga chi perde. È un esercizio che mi riesce bene. E mi riconcilia con il mio sacro poco."

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#pier paolo pasolini #il valore della sconfita

[istmos]

«[Kitarô]Nishida makes it clear that in taking the steps to an ontology of nothingness he is taking on a major supposition of philosophy up until then. “I think that we can distinguish the west to have considered being as the ground of reality, the east to have taken nothingness as its ground.” This does not mean that he understood the introduction of the concept of nothingness as a mere paraphrase or mirror-image of the concept of being that had to take on all the traits and functions of the concept it was replacing. It was rather a relativizing of being, which he saw as absolute in western thought, to a greater absolute.[...] To call reality itself absolute nothingness, then, is to say that all of reality is subject to the dialectic of being and not-being, that the identity of each thing is bound to an absolute contradictoriness. In other words, nothingness not only relativizes the “ground of being,” it relativizes any model of co-existence or harmony that sublates, transcends, debilitates, or otherwise obscures that contrariness. At the same time, it is to say that the ascent of nothingness to self awareness in human consciousness, “to see being itself directly as nothingness,” is both the place at which the self can directly intuit itself and the place at which the absolute becomes most fully real.»

James W. Heisig, "Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School", University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, p. 61- 63

#kitaro nishida #school of kyoto #james h heisig #philosophers of nothingness

[istmos]

[topografias]

#topografias

[istmos]

in memoriam: Richard Serra

#in memoriam #richard serra #museu rainha sofia

[istmos]

[in itinere]

#in itinere

[istmos]

[in itinere]

#in itinere #a journey

[istmos]

in memoriam

[Maurizio Pollini plays Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 23]

#in memoriam #M.Pollini: 1942-2024 #virtuoso del piano

[istmos]

[in between worlds]

#in between worlds

[istmos]

[gestuário - metafísica das mãos; esboçando o limiar]

#metafísica das mãos

[istmos]

[Topografias]

#topografias

[istmos]

[topografias - limbus]

(This image - to much indecency, of course!- was removed from my Instagram! Let's see, now, how long it takes Tumblr - in its, also, fantastically refined sense of suggestion in art - to do the same - or any idiot who passes by this blog can use one of the paws to click on report about the content… Show your stupidity by commenting and not hiding behind a keyboard… so brave, as always!)

It is not unprecedented, after all it is the dish of the day served with fraudulent refinement of spaces that claim to be without barriers, when in reality they recreate and invert the concept of freedom, which is already so controversial in itself. Also, in a dangerous way, almost all of us tend to assimilate, resignedly, that this yoke is an inevitability that we have to accept if we want to stay in these networks. Thus, it will not be the first nor the last time that this alliance of algorithmic and human stupidity manifests itself. What still surprises me is how an image/photo is consumed to the point of being exhausted by the total inability to be looked at! Most people don't know how to LOOK and REFLECT (even if they did, I doubt they would want to), accommodated as they are to the superficial noise that generally occupies the daily imagery they encounter. Consequently, they do not reach suggestion as a power of possibilities for the reflection. Now, in the field of creativity, the censorious and condescending mechanism focused, above all, on the genitals, the nipples, and acts considered to be of a sexual nature (in this particular matter, I admit the strangeness it causes me to see a work by some people who publish and hide, for e.g., nipples so as not to be censored… I don't understand if they are trying to present their work or, rather, they enter the "likeization" machine and, even if unconsciously, normalize the persecutory system of these networks). It seems to me, that we have now arrived, at an even more perverse degree and, obviously, promising phase in regression: censoring and amputating, if not even killing the suggestion in its infancy, ultimately destroying the imagination once and for all. Even more extraordinary: someone, who passes by a instagram page, a blog, feels offended by the suggestion itself… The first impulse is to laugh, and not care. However, these small, almost daily adventures on social media show the path towards which the flock is headed, anointed more and more - the almost sacralized for some Artificial Intelligence! What is falling into disuse is the already old human intelligence… Very soon will see millions of posts with the traditional and almost mechanized "RIP"… for human inteligence!

#topografias #limbus #censorship #acephalous world

[istmos]

Yoko Akino, "The Cat and The Moon"

#yoko akino #etching

[istmos]

Farewell, my sweet dear friend! You were a living poem.

#farewell #+ 12.02.2024

[istmos]

[limbus - (re)conhecer/desconhecer]

#limbus

[istmos]

[in itinere]

#in itinere

[istmos]

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, "Cartas para este tempo" [Uma carta («A Carta de Lord Chandos») e Cartas do Regresso], trad. e ensaio de João Barrento, BCF Editores

#hugo von hoffmannsthal #cartas para este tempo #hiroshi sugimoto