July 14, 2012, 11:30 am

quotEnsemble #19—On movement, order and shapeshifting meanings

“In Heidegger’s final analysis, the goal of technology was ‘something completely different and therefore new’. It involved increasingly efficient orderings of resources simply for the sake of this ordering and it has created a world in which ‘everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for a further ordering’.”

in book “New Aesthetic New Anxieties”
Booki

“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved.” -Wittgenstein

“It’s supposed to hurt to think about it!”
Scienceblogs


“I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment…” 

David Bohm in “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”