Fish In the Afternoon

Ὣς οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον οὐδὲ παρελθεῖν. – Hesiod, Theogony Before Thales, Hesiod teaches his son how to farm. In the beginning, Earth and Sky meet in intimate union, Eros peering from the clouds. The Titans emerge from a dirt-womb and sever the authority of the Sky. Ruling over the before, the Harvest wields… Continue reading

“The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.” Denis Diderot, Last Conversation All philosophy is performance. It is a thing that we do – an action, a motion, a riff, a rhythm. Philosophy is movement. Long ago, Thales looked into the sky and fell into a well. The stars are there, but what are the patterns… Continue reading

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. – James Joyce, Ulysses Philosophy tends towards the abstract, the reduction of multiplicity to unity, the concrete to its form, singletons to sets. This reduction occurs through investigation and classification, through collecting life into a pantheon of categories, taken to… Continue reading

ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία [sc. ὁ ἔρως] δίδοται Plato, Phaedrus Uniques join together in patterns of inhabiting, unfolding over one-another in love. Love orients our attention, allowing another to disclose themselves to us through focus. Love may dance between many but it is never directed to all at once; love… Continue reading

The world and life are one. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, prop. 5.621 The more we understand particular things, the more do we understand God. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, bk. V prop. 24 Image: Composition with Taches by Victor Hugo (1875) Continue reading