Archive for March, 2006

Forget the self

Friday, March 31st, 2006

To study dance is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
A Zen based proverb

Nothing to be different

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

One must want nothing to be different — not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not only bear what is necessary, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern Self

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

The modern self cannot be fully or properly appreciated without its burried life, its ancient grounding, its formation through inherited ideas and images.
Simon Goldhill

Profound Matters

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Completely true to nature

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Completely true to nature!’ – what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Feeling at home

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernhard Shaw

Diagram

Friday, March 24th, 2006

A diagram is a picture, in which one is intended to perform inference about the thing pictured, by mentally following around the parts of the diagram.
James Franklin

Dissipative System

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

An example for a dissipative system is deadbeat oscillation or live.
Wikipedia about Dissipation

Media Technology

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I would be in favor of a use of media technology that gives it a chance to awaken us from an anthropocentric sleep, and to surprise us in a way that is totally intelligible and totally incommensurable at the same time.
Claus Pias

Done out of love

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche