witch posts

http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID127939.html

levitation

What does space flight signify for the Jewish philosopher? The first thing that strikes the eye is the way that Levinas puts Gagarin and Heidegger back to back. Strange comparison: what do the Russian cosmonaut and the rustic thinker of Todtnauberg have to do with one another? In fact, they represent absolute antipodes: Soviet Communism and German Fascism, technological wizardry and technophobic anti-modernism, vita activa and vita contemplativa. Most importantly, for Levinas this impossible couple stands for the choice between “enlightened uprootedness” (enracinement éclairé) and “earthly attachment” (attachement terrestre). By voyaging into space, man leaves behind his mythic homeland: even further, he discovers that this hallowed place was never anything but superstition and idolatry. Levitation makes of the human being a creature of the universe. Against the philosopher of the forest clearing, Levinas defends the astral desires of technological man.


August 2013 // loosed object-love-object

crossings foldings holes

The Intertwining / the chiasm


'A figural situation denotes a gesture of framing, cutting-out, a distinction of an outline of a surface or a platform, a form within a form, a form around a form; therefore the figural dynamics contains a bilateral movement from a form to a plat-form and back from the platform to a form. Erich Auerbach, Figura
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In his Physics, Aristotle defined the Topos as the inner surface of a thing which contains another moving thing. The figure occurs at the borderline between a moving thing and another thing through which the former passes.

[platfrom / l'aplat / field]

Adi Efal/ The two faces of the figure: plastic and philological 2010

tools and script

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bridge

The bridge is a thing of this sort. The location allows the simple onefold of earth and sky, of divinities and mortals, to enter into a site by arranging the site into spaces.

building dwelling thinking

the draft from the well with the star-die on top

Todtnauberg

Revisiting Romania: Dress and Identity explores how Romanian folk art has been used to express identity and nationhood in Romania in the 19th and 20th centuries, including its use as a political tool during the Ceaușescu years.
Many of the objects were donated in 1957 following an exhibition at the Horniman, which was organised from behind the Iron Curtain.

Heidegger's Hut

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/research/ahtg/heidegger's_hut.htm

building-dwelling-thinking