matthew goulish : lecture in the shape of a bridge collapsing |
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A: 9. to believe Left to itself, in a world of obscurity, the mind has the capacity to move from one idea to another, but it does so at random, in a delirium that runs throughout the universe, creating monstrous giants and dragons of fire. For the traditional concept of error we substitute a concept of delirium, according to which there are beliefs that are not false, but illegitimate - illegitimate exercises of faculties, illegitimate functioning of relations. as if to say the collapse of a bridge allows us to see the invisible, a confluence of wind and mathematics, an exposure of the limits of technology, history, and that which is human. Failure produces transparency. Preserve these words for a day of fear: an external field exists, one of singularities, irreducible, wherein no two deaths are alike. If we could reshuffle the world like a deck of cards whose original sequence has disappointed us, would we say the problem has changed? We are not threatened by error, rather and much worse, we bathe in delirium. It may be that to perceive this world, this life, and to believe in it, has become our most difficult task. |
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