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Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.
The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.
In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? "A beautiful way to die" – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.
A certain degree of audiovisual hallucination happens when we read poetry.
Nature is…animals, trees, the weather…the bioregion, the ecosystem. It is both the set and the contents of the set. It is the world and the entities in that world. It appears like a ghost at the never-arriving end of an infinite series: crabs, waves, lightning, rabbits, silicon…Nature.
Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.
Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.
Personhood then is also in the mesh-- it may look solid from a distance, but as we approach it we discover that it is full of holes
For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy ... to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought " ... is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.
