BERNEVAL

Bahar Orang
Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty
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Daniel Coleman In Bed With the Word is invoked for his take on Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion and hermeneutics of affirmation.

Reading is ecological for what it does to our ties to that which lies around us: what and how we see when we look up from the page. A hermeneutics of affirmation for receptivity, for curiosity, for awe toward the beauty of all the human, animal, and mineral worlds. And a hermeneutics of suspicion to learn skills for discerning all that threatens those worlds.

And so for day 3142
19.07.2015

Samuel R. Delany
Mad Man

Thought is part of language. But everything we perceive, either through our senses, or through our bodily feelings, or through sitting in the dark with our eyes closed, remembering or thinking or figuring, is the linguistic signified. The whole range of human perceptions, of subject and object, is the “meaning” part of language. So a thought doesn’t come “without words.” It comes first as simple language –– simple meanings, if you will. Then, what we call “thinking about it” is just the arrival of more complex language that elaborates on it –– that’s all. Once the elaborated language has come, we remember the simpler language as somehow prelinguistic. But it isn’t.

And so for day 3140
17.07.2015

Nicola Winborn
In group interview
in Periodicity

I absolutely love the way that art involving sewing, stitching, weaving alters our sense of time and our experiences of consciousness within time. Yes, I do become hypnotised, meditative, disconnected, loose. These are all beautiful sensations and one of the reasons I often can’t put down the textiles I am working on.

And so for day 3139
16.07.2015

Julia Kristeva
Le génie féminin 1. Hannah Arendt

Il lui importe avant tout de sauver la liberté de « qui » au sein d’une pluralité politique optimale, et de ne pas le livrer à un inconscient incontrôlable. Elle prend ainsi le risque de priver le « qui de quelqu’un » de son corps : une pesanteur, peut-être, mais aussi, quelle plasticité !

You can almost feel it in your own body –– the heaviness and then the plasticity.

And so for day 3138
15.07.2015

John Powers
On Jules and Jim

Catherine becomes one of the modern movies’ triumphant characterizations – the anima as autocrat.

And so for day 3136
13.07.2015

Robert Bringhurst
The Solid Form of Language
Gaspereau Press, 2004

Languages that have no native speakers, and no more than a few eccentric readers, might just as well be written in phonetics. Scholarship is grand, but it is not the same as culture.

And so for day 3135
12.07.2015