www.charlesindustries.com

www.charlesindustries.com
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Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" A Guide and CommentaryMonika M. Langer

Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" A Guide and CommentaryMonika M. Langer
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Seeking the essence of consciousness will therefore not consist of developing the Wortbedeutung of consciousness and escaping from existence into the universe of things said; it will consist in rediscovering my actual presence to myself...looking for the world's essence is not looking for what it is as an idea once it has been reduced to a theme of discourse; it is looking for what it is as a fact for us, before any thematisation.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
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Even if one has a general knowledge of the way people walk, one knows nothing of a person's posture during the fractional second of a stride. The act of reaching for a lighter or a spoon is familiar routine, yet we hardly know what really goes on between hand and metal, not to mention how this fluctuates with our moods. Here the camera intervenes with the resources of its lowerings and liftings, its interruptions and isolations, its extensions and accelerations, its enlargements and reductions. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

finding

finding
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finding

finding
Originally uploaded by chillrock.