KANT NIETZSCHE UNDO LACAN
BLUE / DISTANT - “I have a small card in front of me, for my Mama's Easter note ... It is a detail from Giotto's ‘Le Sermon aux Oiseaux’* (c.1300) ... Pastel-blue sky with white bird descending from within that blue space (displacing that blue space) ... Here is the gaze of the Outside, written across (against the grain) of things ... (Éditions du Désastre, 2002)” ... / See also, Blanchot / Klossowski (Yellow Pages) ...
*Les fresques de Giotto dans la Basilique de Saint François ...
PLEASE NOTE - The essay "Kant Nietzsche Undo Lacan" has been moved to Rizoma (February 25, 2007)
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"A wind that blows from the abyss above us
among our brethren who one time existed
ripples and shakes the surface of our spirits,
and, reflected upon this trembling mirror,
the world, too, trembles."
--Miguel de Unamuno (1920)
"Unamuno reputedly wrote the above passage, from his poem "The Christ of Velazquez", while staring out the window of a train at the reflection of trees in black puddles of rainwater ... The intense black background of Velazquez's painting of a crucified and very dead (and therefore very 'alive') Christ (1632) merged in his mind with the blackening political landscape of Spain. His poem, composed of "2,538 lines in free hendecasyllables, divided into eighty nine sections", took seven years to complete ..." Harvesting the 20th Century
Image (above, left) - "El Cristo Crucificado", Velazquez (c.1632)
