Selected Fragments 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...

OVERVIEW: ● The pantheist ontology of Baruch Spinoza (b.1632 – d.1677) is an attempt to deny the accountability of political evil. ●...

We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic forms, not...

What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went unmarked and...

Thought Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether existence’s sense...

The world is folded in to every object And each thing or idea is the folding And unfolding of space, time and history. And the atom is...

Fichte / Picture There is nothing real anywhere, neither outside of us nor in us. I know of no being at all. Not even myself. Images...

objects are luminous: their light appears on the intellect’s horizontal plane (the boundary between knower and known).

Bergson Memory is a cloud wherever my body is; A fog of the virtual enveloping the actual. The past contracts to the present at the...

[ Disguised .] Yes, it is I. In I come, out I go. Yes, I am it. It writes. I will write a supplication. Here. Now. As follows. And in...

Descartes' Dream I was a lonely cripple Seeking shelter; I heard thunder, saw fire. Sleeping too much, Snow on the rise. My bones warm...

Discourse in the Garden An olive grove. Night. The sound of approaching footsteps. SOCRATES: ‘Swounds! A dark day for strong flowers...

Artful Agaze, the artist is beset by eros Of no vulgar kind. Crossing the chorismos, He takes his tools, kneads and forms And sculpts....

Simulation (Through the Looking Glass) “Observe this fagged-out world, this patch of chemical scum, where things – people, cats, tables,...

Apeiron beginning; ur-reality: eternal, infinite, boundless, indefinite; yielding every thing through the actions of opposites:...

The soul occupies a doorless room on the upper floor of this house. Five senses – Five windows – Enter the light, wind trafficking sound...

A cell where everything happens on the inside, an inside without an outside.   Only when there are objects is there space on the inside....

Circling We move in circles around each other, encircled and encompassing, each turn driven in part by our own will to move and be...

To Spinoza nomads we traverse a flat shimmering world breeding images. signs & erratic/ erotic encounters; surfaces effacing...

Spinoza's Hatchet For the sole perfection and the final end of a slave and of a tool is this, that they duly fulfill the task imposed on...