Balance & Envol

M'a-t-il dit

Matilda

Mind-Glo 1999

That same mixture of off-by-heart deadliness with a half absent relishing of nostalgia, a sort of inward movement towards a sacredly naïve land of dreams, where literature is liturgy and the hearts of utopias still beat.

From alienation to autonomy for Eva

“The triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism. In the past decade, there have been unmistakable changes in the intellectual climate of the world's two largest communist countries, and the beginnings of significant reform movements in both. But this phenomenon extends beyond high politics and it can be seen also in the ineluctable spread of consumerist Western culture in such diverse contexts as the peasants' markets and color television sets now omnipresent throughout China, the cooperative restaurants and clothing stores opened in the past year in Moscow, the Beethoven piped into Japanese department stores, and the rock music enjoyed alike in Prague, Rangoon, and Tehran.”


“As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.”


"I might also say: it was with me, and I was it. I consisted of all that, so to speak. I consisted of my own history, and I felt with great certainty: this is what I am. I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished."


Alienation >>>>>> Conscience >>>>>>>> Creation >>>>>>> Autonomy


I put a spell on you too.