Dea T.

This project of seeking out a truth found elsewhere is, at its best, intersubjective in the Lacanian sense—a tending toward an other that placesthe self at risk

9. Stockdale Paradox:

The optimal state of mind is neither optimism, which leaves you unprepared for adversity, nor pessimism, which destroys motivation, but optimistic pessimism: by preparing for the worst outcomes, you increase confidence in dealing with any outcome, and thus, you increase hope.

If you’ve been lucky enough to have had a deep relationship with another human being, you know what pure attention and witness feel like. The poet David Whyte  said  that "the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone,

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s, truth. If any myth,discourse, and analytic only exists by contrast to another one then thecondition for its possibility must be in the oscillation toward and fromanother. This is no simple relativism, some space encompassing all thepluralities, equally positioned toward each of the alternatives. The pointhere is not a whole comprised of the... See more

As art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw. Art was no longer moving forward. Individual artists were free to consume the present, swallow other cultural forms, and twist them into new experiences.