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Thus transparency explodes into a thousand pieces, which are like the shattered fragments of a mirror, where we can catch a last glimpse of our image furtively reflected before it disappears. Like the fragments of a hologram, each piece contains the entire universe. It is also characteristic of the fractal image to be contained entirely in its minutest details. In this sense one can speak of the fractal subject, which - instead of transcending into a finality beyond itself - is diffracted into a multitude of identical miniaturised egos, multiplying in an embryonic mode as in a biological culture, and completely saturating its environment through an infinite process of scissiparity. While the fractal object is identical to each of its elementary components, the fractal subjects dreams only of resembling himself in each one of his fractions. That is to say, his dream involutes below all representation towards the smallest molecular fraction of himself, a strange Narcissus, no longer dreaming of his ideal image, but of a formula to genetically reproduce himself into infinity.
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#NowPlaying Scarlatti’s sonates by talented Racha Arodaky. Beautiful
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How I Learned A Language in 22 Hours →
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I’m ashamed to admit that I still can’t read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish, and that came only after five years of intense classroom study and more than half a dozen trips to Latin America. Still, I was determined to master Lingala before leaving for the Congo. And I had just under two and a half months to do it. When I asked Ed if he thought it would be possible to learn an entire language in such a minuscule amount of time using Memrise, his response was matter-of-fact: “It’ll be a cinch.”
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Would like to hear Brendel in this one (and no, not Russian school for Handel, pls)
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Sunday morning. Did I walk through this last night dream? (Pris avec Instagram)
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Raining in the parc du Luxembourg. #Paris (Pris avec Instagram)
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#Paris Septembre 26, 2012, 14:31 . A Gift: (Pris avec Instagram)
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#art #Paris - Claire Morgan exhibition opening. First day of #rentree for Parisian galleries. (Pris avec Instagram à Galerie Karsten Greve)
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“Toute action exige l’oubli, comme tout organisme a besoin non seulement de lumière, mais encore d’obscurité.
Un homme qui voudrait ne sentir que d’une façon purement historique ressemblerait à quelqu’un que l’on aurait forcé de se priver de sommeil, ou bien à un animal qui serait condamner à ruminer sans cesse les mêmes aliments.
Il est donc possible de vivre sans presque se souvenir, de vivre même heureux, à l’exemple de l’animal, mais il est absolument impossible de vivre sans oublier.
Si je devais m’exprimer, sur ce sujet, d’une façon plus simple encore, je dirais : il y a un degré d’insomnie, de rumination, de sens historique qui nuit à l’être vivant et finit par l’anéantir, qu’il s’agisse d un homme, d’un peuple ou d’une civilisation.
Pour pouvoir déterminer ce degré et, par celui-ci, les limites où le passé doit être oubli é sous peine de devenir le fossoyeur du présent, il faudrait connaître exactement la force plastique d’un homme, d’un peuple, d’une civilisation, je veux dire cette force qui permet de se développer hors de soi-même, d’une façon qui vous est propre, de transformer et d’incorporer les choses du passé, de guérir et de cicatriser les blessures, de remplacer ce qui est perdu, de refaire par soi-même des formes brisées.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888)
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Eiffel Tower . #paris #spring (Pris avec instagram)






