Sublime

(Boltanski & Chiapello 2005; Boltanski & Thévenot 2006).

axiomatic,

To be passing is to live; to remain and continue is to die. “

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For Western philosophers are constantly bedeviled by the discovery that they cannot think outside certain well-worn ruts-that, however hard they may try, their “new” philosophies turn out to be restatements of ancient positions, monist or pluralist, realist or nominalist, vitalist or mechanist. This is because these are the only alternatives which

In our time of huge populations exposed continuously to reproduced voices, images, and words used for commercial and political profit, there are too many people who want to and can invent us, own us, shape and control us through seductive and powerful media.

doing the Japanese and I the English, with background improvisations by Vincent Delgado on the koto and shakuhachi.

I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it.