Rituals become empty shells for sell. Communities are decomposing into the conglomerates of narcissistic individuals. Think about it next time you pull out your phone to text a mate while having a dinner with your grandma.
This short book is really profound. It digests a lot of important ideas down to the essence. Of all his books, this one is by far the best, in my opinion.
Reading it now. I see the arc and this rendition confirms. I will keep reading. Thank you. "Poems are structures with strict forms that shine all by themselves. Very often, they do not communicate a message. They are characterized by an excess of the signifier; they are luxurious. We enjoy in particular their perfection of form. In poetry, language plays. For this reason, we hardly read poetry any more. Poems are magic ceremonies of language. The poetic principle returns pleasure to language through a radical break with the economy of production of meaning. The poetic does no produce. This is why ‘[t]he poetic is the insurrection of language against its own laws’, against laws that serve the purpose of producing meaning. In poems we enjoy language itself. "
have just seen a documentary about professor han. considering how sad and pessimistic most of his work seems, he seems to be quite a happy person. i think he must live his philosophy.
