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Portrait, Or: Idea of a Body without Organs: 'Face Value'
Without division or interval,
the body appears as pure form
over content, surface without depth.
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These Words Are Not My Words
Words like mosquitoes swarming / Around me, pestering
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Language Speaks for Itself
What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?
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Schopenhauer's Flowers
Not the growing stem or the leaf blowing in the wind; not the opening bud or the emerging radicle; not the fourfold root yearning for water.
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Presentation of Self
By Richard Mather I am only fully actual when determined in all of my parts, when I am the sum of all predicates that can be attributed...
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Pond Life
By Richard Mather If water is the primal origin of all things (as the ancient Greek sage Thales of Miletus supposed), then considering...
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Infinite Understanding
What fact makes a principle true? Quid Facti. That is the question.
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The Quality of a Quantum
By Richard Mather I am nothing and you are nothing. but the relation between us isn’t nothing. Infinitesimally small differences...
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The Fact of Being Is Always True
By Richard Mather Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the...
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In the Beginning Was
By Richard Mather Strange to think I am the universe and everything in it too. I call out. No voice returns other than my echo. So...
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Selected Fragments
By Richard Mather Tool-use If the hammer is a symbol Of the power of the hand, The hand is the product Of the need for a hammer. Horizon...
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Point
By Richard Mather There is no place for me to exist, Always on the edge. Like you I am an extensionless point At the limit of a world I...
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Question
By Richard Mather What is the matter? It is a base question. It is the not-one, without limit, infinite. From it finite things are...
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Is Spinoza’s pantheistic ontology a template for authoritarianism?
By Richard Mather OVERVIEW: ● The pantheist ontology of Baruch Spinoza (b.1632 – d.1677) is an attempt to deny the accountability of...
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Itself in Mind for the Future
By Richard Mather We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic...
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Leibniz’s Soul
By Richard Mather What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went...
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Thought
By Richard Mather Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether...
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The World Is Folded in to Every Object
By Richard Mather The world is folded in to every object And each thing or idea is the folding And unfolding of space, time and history....
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Adam’s Descent
By Richard Mather Adam is a dry rib but sinews are stretched, tissue and flesh fashioned. Man of Spirit, embodied. Descending the...
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Fichte / Picture
By Richard Mather There is nothing real anywhere, neither outside of us nor in us. I know of no being at all. Not even myself. Images...
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