There are so many highlight-worthy excerpts of your latest (and brilliantly outlined/researched) essay - both in parts I and II - (this excerpt being one of them), that I simply feel unable, at this rate, to respond with anything more than pure appreciation for the time and energy you spent on this riveting distillation of thought procession. One my brains (of mind and body) are still digesting. Thank you for the intellectual soup ~ I can taste the love. ♥️
“This dualism of subject and object, mind and nature, has come to be seen as definitional of what philosophers call with great confidence, ‘modernity’” Simon Critchley writes. “It leads to the dogma that reduces philosophy to epistemology. The most important question is assumed to be how a subject can have knowledge of objects.”1 Knowing is, can be, and has long been more than a process of translation, assimilation or recognition between distinct entities. In Touching Feeling (2003), Eve Sedgdwick and Adam Frank write that “Any theory, to be a theory, requires or produces figure/ground relations.”2 They compare this to how shame itself introduces “a particular boundary or frame” into an otherwise continuous mass. Despite requiring a separation between knowing subject and knowable object, writing as knowledge-production ostensibly aims to dissolve that line."
thank you so very much! I'm confident I'll revisit and rewrite this essay as I grow as a writer and its encouraging to know there is a readership for it <3
“a low theory of mysticism”—yes. There’s lots of good in here but that’s the phrase I’m turning over in my head at the end
There are so many highlight-worthy excerpts of your latest (and brilliantly outlined/researched) essay - both in parts I and II - (this excerpt being one of them), that I simply feel unable, at this rate, to respond with anything more than pure appreciation for the time and energy you spent on this riveting distillation of thought procession. One my brains (of mind and body) are still digesting. Thank you for the intellectual soup ~ I can taste the love. ♥️
This one:
“This dualism of subject and object, mind and nature, has come to be seen as definitional of what philosophers call with great confidence, ‘modernity’” Simon Critchley writes. “It leads to the dogma that reduces philosophy to epistemology. The most important question is assumed to be how a subject can have knowledge of objects.”1 Knowing is, can be, and has long been more than a process of translation, assimilation or recognition between distinct entities. In Touching Feeling (2003), Eve Sedgdwick and Adam Frank write that “Any theory, to be a theory, requires or produces figure/ground relations.”2 They compare this to how shame itself introduces “a particular boundary or frame” into an otherwise continuous mass. Despite requiring a separation between knowing subject and knowable object, writing as knowledge-production ostensibly aims to dissolve that line."
thank you so very much! I'm confident I'll revisit and rewrite this essay as I grow as a writer and its encouraging to know there is a readership for it <3