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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Stillness

By Nik Gaffney, with a foreword by me...

Movement is a deeply strange and paradoxical phenomenon, yet we see it all around us all the time. Many philosophers can’t cope with how paradoxical it is — think about Zeno and his paradoxes — so they try to get rid of it, by arguing that movement is just an illusion.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah Heraclitus and all those guys for whom movement defined life. Love all refs to Zeno!

    Ye speaketh in riddles I have decided. Wonderous imagery and love the pull quote about art becoming when humans are inhabited. Still trying to be open enough to think in this manner

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  2. "Non-violent direct action"! Timothy, your wordsmithing is a joy.

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