-
Lola the Interpreter: E book One – Journal #134 March 2023 – e-flux
Shut up! Favete linguis! That is about to start! Horace, Odes Let this start, precipitously disturbed. There: its solely different now could be to proceed, which is to say: theres no actual different in any respect. Skepticismdoubt: it may show liberating: SKEPTICISM, says the motto, WILL KEEP YOU FREE. However it may result in a way of hopelessness, impossibility; it may appear to vow nothing however useless ends and fatigue: SKEPTICISM WILL EXHAUST YOU. Ergo, says the logician, freedom is exhausting. With a change to my title would come a change to the issues individuals need from me and a change of individuals wanting them, however wants and calls for…
-
The Loss of life Drive on the Finish of the World – Journal #134 March 2023 – e-flux
Transience and Politics In his 1915 essay On Transience, Freud describes a summer time stroll by a smiling countryside by which he and two companionsa taciturn pal and a younger however already well-known poetdiscuss the great thing about nature. Whereas the younger poet admires the pastoral scene that he encounters, he can not take any pleasure in it. For, as Freud explains: He was disturbed by the thought that each one this magnificence was fated to extinction, that it could vanish when winter got here like all human magnificence and all the wonder and splendour that males have created. All that he would in any other case have beloved…
