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Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

#charlotte wells #aftersun #films #cinema

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Daidō Moriyama Retrospective

"what we photographers can do, and should do, is capture with our own eyes those fragments of reality that are completely impossible to capture with existing words, and continue actively to create materials which confront those words and thoughts." — Provoke #2, editorial

#photography #art #daido moriyama #daidō moriyama #communication #language #reality #my photos

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Simone Weil's 'The List of Temptations (to be read daily)' from her diary

#simone weil #fragments #the list of temptations

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“Languages are not algorithms of one another, you cannot match them item for item,” she says, adding “what if [there is] a word that does not intend to be translatable.” She calls this “a word that stops itself,” and writes: “in the presence of a word that stops itself, in that silence, one has the feeling that something has passed us and kept going, that some possibility has got free.” There it is again, that indescribable nearness, the sense of proximity to something words can’t identify.

— In which she is Anne Carson, as written here.

#anne carson #language #fragments #thinking about this as i despair over my thesis #(it's not just words but all of language)

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About this time I had a dream which both frightened and encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping this little light alive. Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me. But at the same moment I was conscious, in spite of my terror, that I must keep my little light going through night and wind, regardless of all dangers. When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was...my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying. I knew, too, that this little light was my consciousness, the only light I have. My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

#carl jung #memories dreams reflections #self #transcendence #fragments

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Twin Peaks, 1990, dir. David Lynch

SE01E01 Northwest Passage

#twin peaks #northwest passage #tv #david lynch

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Neither language nor mind abides by the requirement of closure, except perhaps temporarily, for limited tasks. Both mind and language are necessarily open systems that constantly expand, add meta-levels, learn and modify themselves. Equally, both language and mind are notoriously promiscuous in violating Russell's constraint on self-inclusion and reflexivity. Consciousness is indeed forever adjusting its frame, shifting meta-levels; it keeps re-framing and reflexively framing itself. This propensity of consciousness is neither an aberration nor an accident. Rather, it is a necessary, adaptively motivated capacity; it stands at the very core of our perceptual and cognitive processing mechanisms. It is a precondition for the mind's ability to select, evaluate, file, contextualize and respond appropriately to mountains of information.

Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics, by Talmy Givón (1989)

#talmy givón #mind code and context: essays in pragmatics #linguistics #pragmatics #fragments #consciousness #self #reality

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Fanny and Alexander (1982) | dir. Ingmar Bergman

#fanny and alexander #fanny och alexander #ingmar bergman #films #cinema

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#3.14159 #lexie liu #music #audio

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Sognsvann Lake, Oslo, Norway. Photo by Haarkon

#winter #nature #photography

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The non-pragmatic tradition speaks of two modes of knowledge - or modes of inference - deductive and inductive. The first proceeds from the general rule to its specific instances. The second presumably proceeds from specific instances to the general rule. Pragmatically-based abductive inference -- concerning appropriateness of context, importance, relevance, similarity or explanation -- is in principle a different kind of reasoning. It proceeds by hypothesis, guesswork or intuition, often by analogy. It is thus, in principle, unconstrained.

Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics, by Talmy Givón (1989)

#talmy givón #mind code and context: essays in pragmatics #fragments #reality #language #pragmatics #linguistics

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The classical dictum also attributed to Heraclitus: "...you never step twice into the same river..." is also essentially pragmatic, presumably pointing out to the ever-changing context -- time, the river, the self.

Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics, by Talmy Givón (1989)

#talmy givón #mind code and context: essays in pragmatics #linguistics #language #pragmatics #self #reality #transcendence

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Prefab Sprout - Andromeda Heights (Andromeda Heights, 1997)

#Andromeda Heights #Prefab Sprout #music #audio

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#photography #nature #winter #trees

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“There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don’t seek happiness, merely to bring some sort of form and style to their unhappiness.”

— Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

#hjalmar söderberg #doktor glas #doctor glas #fragments #self

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The heavy universe is taken as prey. It gives and drinks blood.

— Simone Weil, Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil, transl by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson, (2023)

#simone weil #mirror of obedience: the poems and selected prose of simone weil #fragments #hunger #reality

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Hugo Simberg (Finnish, 1873-1917), Winter road II, 1899.

Etching and drypoint.

#hugo simberg #winter #art #painting