The Things Themselves, Alive With Metaphor

That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more

By analyzing the content of art rather than merely experiencing it, we “set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’”—everything necessarily pointing at something else. In order to liberate ourselves from this diminishing way of seeing, she suggests valuing transparence instead. “Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of th... See more