Monday, February 23, 2009
the struggle (part 2)
Ad Reinhardt, Untitled (1960-1966)
there is no salvation outside of History.
they were told in the garden that if they ate of the fruit of the tree they would surely die. to be like god, knowing good from evil, this is politics and the beginnings of all war. every city is babel.
in a broken world, one must write broken sentences.
if the world were perfectly closed there would be no hope. because it is broken one can hope, for that means there is passage beyond what we are.
politics substitutes the borders of the de-personal state and the declaration of war that leads to the rape and plunder of all its subjects for the caress of the body, the communion of love and the worship of that by which love is made possible.
moses was told that no one could see god and live. so, since he was moses, he did not see god. but he misunderstood: we must be no one.