David Vivó photostream on Flickr: personal project, Paul Auster’s “Leviathan” book cover / 120x185 mm
• Jul 11, 2010 link notes tagged: art communication illustration illustrator design poster cover book author novel state power politic community Hobbes violence Auster freedom terror terrorism loser United-States
 | Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance (naturaliter maiorennes), nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians. It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me. |
• Dec 01, 2009 link notes tagged: communication philosophy author power subject freedom reason power autonomy critic history
Can pingouins feel anxiety? Can they get freedom’s dizziness? Is there such a thing as a free pingouin? Those questions adress Kierkegaard’s conception of anxiety : “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom” (English // French)
UPDATE [May 4th, 2010] Anxiety is not anguish. And it’s not fear. In French, there’s a difference between “angoisse” (“anguish”) and “crainte”. “Crainte” is often translated as “fear” though there’s a French word for that : “peur”. Crainte” has to do with anticipation of something not desired, like going to the dentist… it’s not the same thing as “fear” which is usually linked to the knowledge or the perception of an immediate danger. The important thing is that “crainte” works with an objet as though “angoisse” (“anguish”) is without object (for Heidegger and for Simondon as well). Some have suggested that worry, anxiety and anguish are three degree of the same experience.
• Mar 10, 2009 link notes tagged: animal life lost movie philosophy sequence anxiety anguish fear anticipation freedom chaos choice worry Heidegger Simondon Kierkegaard
