Play Slow
Deswegen Faszination mit Astrologie, Tarot etc.?
Das neuzeitliche Pathos des Neuen löst das Sein in den Prozess auf. Unter den Bedingungen des Neuen ist kein kontemplatives Leben möglich. Kontemplation ist Wiederholung. Das Pathos des Handelns, das sich nun mit der Emphase des Neuen verbindet, setzt viel Unruhe in die Welt.
Byung-Chul Han • Vita Contemplativa
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it.
maria popova
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
McLuhan noted that “when information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Disorders of Our Collective Consciousness
Kevin Gilbert