On the eve of philosophy and beyond it the logic of sense lost itself in calculations without end, only to find itself in this infinite time of poetry, dismembered...
”It is through this figure of ontological anarchy that we find ourselves in a time at which it is ultimately urgent to “understand”—in order to step beyond and unmake—the magic circle of double binds. But this time it is not the sorcery of the animist other, but the modern and “capitalist sorcery” (Isabelle Stengers) that keeps us spellbound, trapped within a set of false choices, within a systemic closure that suggests no alternatives, and does not cease to assimilate into clinical management its other and its outsides. Understanding the “modern” sorcery that crystalized in the concept of animism is the present issue of e-flux journal’s common denominator.” ~ Anselm Franke, Introduction—“Animism”
(via #36 July 2012 | e-flux)
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