Leonie

“Interpretation is a radical strategy for conserving an old text, which is thought too precious to repudiate, by revamping it. The interpreter, without actually erasing or rewriting the text, is altering it. But he can’t admit to doing this. He claims to be only making it intelligible, by disclosing its true meaning.”

“The criterion of common sense was never applicable to the history of the human race. Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could any of them have believed it possible that in the twentieth century the scourge of cities, the poisoner of lungs, the mass murderer and idol of millions would be a metal receptacle on wheels, and that people would actually prefer being crushed to death inside it during frantic weekend exoduses instead of staying, safe and sound, at home?”

Is the ethical only and exclusively on the side of the subject, she or he who is formed as an ‘I’, confronting an other, a ‘not-I’? What would happen were we to posit and develop other potentialities that always-already connect a non-oppositional co-relating I and a non-I in a poietic, creative, co-emergence and co-affection?