The Fact of Being Is Always True Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the fundament of all that is. The atmosphere is moving thickly, dark submarine green, the tempo of sea-bed’s colour, darkly illumined and populated by gods, the eternals, singing songs of Necessity and Fate. And a word carved deep on the forehead of the chief eternal stares straight at me like a cyclopic eye — That word is destiny. Tonig

Thought Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether existence’s sense of itself -- the subjective correlative of the world at large -- is a prolonged sensation of horror, a horror that exceeds all the little horrors that we (as feeling individuals) experience over and again.

Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950-51) by Barnett Newman 'It Is a Place, Makom, Where Each Man May Be Called up': Being and Time in Barnett Newman's Art 'Even if you don’t know Newman’s place in art history, walking into a space full of his paintings can inspire contemplation. They give you nothing and everything to look at, these huge canvases whose only subject is themselves, enveloping you in the moment, confronting you with seemingly pure fields of color and contrast.’ (Molly Gl

Is Spinoza’s Pantheistic Ontology a Template for Authoritarianism? OVERVIEW: ● The pantheist ontology of Baruch Spinoza (b.1632 – d.1677) is an attempt to deny the accountability of political evil. ● Spinoza’s instinct for statist control and his distrust of the common man are displayed in Theological-Political Treatise (published 1670). His masterwork, Ethics (published posthumously in 1677), is a bold attempt (in the guise of ontology) to classify minds and bodies as attrib

Languages Are Outposts on the Outskirts of Being Languages are outposts on the outskirts of being. By voice and by text we perform raids on being, but we find it impossible to capture being in its entirety. Now we know these language-raids are in vain: There is no being to capture. Being is a spook that haunts our stations. Lately there'