Salmonlilies

Category: Philosophy

  • On learning

    learning to swim or learning a foreign language means composing the singular points of one’s own body or one’s own language with those of another shape or element, which tears us apart but also propels us into a hitherto unknown and unheard-of world of problems. To what are we dedicated if not to those problems…

  • random thought #3

    象 vague (because I cannot recognize you); but distinct (because I cannot move you) sense of innate other. what would you call this that eats you from within / metamorphoses into … Something forces us to think… an object of a fundamental encounter… its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed… raises itself…

  • 他们是游于方域之外的人，而我是游于方内的人

    a fish who has found the ocean swims contentedlya person who has found the way forgets it all, leisurely abiding, [ 遨游外内之间 ] he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has…

  • random thought #2

    A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words (Robert Frost) A complete poem is one where an other finds the medium and the medium finds the placement

  • Show me what we just did

    Some things may not be said – could not be said.Some writings wind around the things that may not, could not be said. They only tease and suggest the appearance of… How indeed, when speaking is a framed sequence and what one wishes to articulate is – an assortment of experiences/sensations all packed up… Language that…

  • The figure a poet is. Is a lover

    When I realize that common discourse takes possession of my other and restores that other to me in the bloodless form of a universal substitute, applied to all the things which are not here, it is as if I saw my other dead, reduced, shelved in an urn upon the wall of the great mausoleum…

  • random thought #1

    二法相因生中道义 In thinking and mediating the two ways, 道义would emerge A rose is a rose is a rose It is a rose. Surely a rose is a rose. Now what about a rose is a rose, is a rose? It is nonsensical other. The affect is a little like reading: I come by the mountain…

  • The Today Series by On Kawara

    On Kawara is a Japanese conceptual artist. He started painting the date of each day back in January 1966, and continued it till his death in 2014. The paintings are hand-painted meticulously, with markings unique for that day. There would be differences in the format of the Date, font size, font type, depending on what…

  • If your being is the inter-being, then why do you wish to hurt the other?

    THE INTER-SUBJECTIVITY The ‘never-seen’ which characterizes an always displaced and disguised object is immersed in the ‘already-seen’. We do not know when or where we have seen it, in accordance with the objective nature of the problematic; and ultimately, it is only the strange which is familiar and only difference which is repeated. THE UNCONSCIOUS The…

  • the poetic universe

    Elements moving, jumbling about, tugging, scorching skin and senses. Out of the few emerges the many: opposites, rivals, strangers, lovers, commoners – on the stage of poetry, addressing the other: “who are you to me?”, “who am I to you?” The split of you and I, the unknown to you and I. The ever subtle…