May 2009
3 posts
A Thousand Plateaus: Arborescence and Rhizomes
The book imitates the world, as art imitates nature. The law of reflection: one becomes two. This is the “most classical and well reflected, oldest, and weariest kind of thought”.
Art imitates nature with a civilzation, culture, society — a second nature. But Nature itself is not one-without-two; nature is not unchanging. There is a dynamism of and in nature, and no...
Towards a Genealogy of Morals [Nietzsche]
In Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 260, Nietzsche makes the claim that there are two basic types of traits which regularly reoccur in combination, linked to one another: master moralities and slave moralities. While initially speaking historically about culture, Nietzsche also claims that these traits are found within individuals. “In all higher and more complex cultures, there are also apparent...
Temporality and Cogito in Phenomenology of...
‘Pieds Noirs’ is the name that was given to the non-native French in Algeria during the period in which Algeria was a colony of France. For 130 years, immigrants became French citizens under French law, and participated in the colonial culture of the time. Once an end to the colonial war was reached, more than a million Pieds Noirs fled Algeria for France, fearing a backlash from the...