Artists, actors, poets, musicians, writers, readers, watchers, listeners, walkers, standers, sitters, sleepers…anyone can be understood and misunderstood. Nobody owns their own consciousness or its subsequent impact. Who do we think we are? We are not a subject or an object, but a temporary process. If someone startles me in my peaceful journey and knocks me unsteady for a second, I just say, “oops!” I wink at them, and myself, then wobble back and keep going. ;)
A lucid and powerful text: it precisely captures the existential wound of the gaze and transforms it into a brilliant critique of contemporary life.
But it also reveals its limitations: by distrusting the individual as the ultimate source of meaning, it relies on a well-intentioned but philosophically flawed socialism that confuses criticism of oppression with the erosion of personal responsibility. A great philosophy; intellectual courage still unfinished.
Artists, actors, poets, musicians, writers, readers, watchers, listeners, walkers, standers, sitters, sleepers…anyone can be understood and misunderstood. Nobody owns their own consciousness or its subsequent impact. Who do we think we are? We are not a subject or an object, but a temporary process. If someone startles me in my peaceful journey and knocks me unsteady for a second, I just say, “oops!” I wink at them, and myself, then wobble back and keep going. ;)
Yes, but not in this article. Can you point me toward what you're indirectly referencing? I want to see more.
A lucid and powerful text: it precisely captures the existential wound of the gaze and transforms it into a brilliant critique of contemporary life.
But it also reveals its limitations: by distrusting the individual as the ultimate source of meaning, it relies on a well-intentioned but philosophically flawed socialism that confuses criticism of oppression with the erosion of personal responsibility. A great philosophy; intellectual courage still unfinished.
In Kafka, it might’ve been someone/somebody else in the world caught looking into the tent at something he/she couldn’t or wouldn’t pay for.