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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

George Bataille

Abyss Lessons

In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, Professor Lidenbrock, after exploring the town of Grauben, forces his nephew up the narrow staircase of a church in order to induce vertigo. The professor tells him that they must take “abyss lessons,”1 in order to prepare themselves for their forthcoming descent into the planet.

Woodward - 2013 - On an Ungrounded Earth

Shivanath Sahu and Shivram
Shivanath Sahu and Shivram

Walking & Falling

You're walking. And you don't always realize it,
but you're always falling.
With each step you fall forward slightly.
And then catch yourself from falling.
Over and over, you're falling.
And then catching yourself from falling.
And this is how you can be walking and falling
at the same time.

Laurie Anderson .. lyrics to Walking & Falling

Does knowing that knowledge cannot be guaranteed by a foundation not mean that we have already acquired a first fundamental knowledge? And should this not lead us to abandon the architectural metaphor, in which the term "foundation" assumes an indispensable meaning, in favor of a musical metaphor of construction in movement that transforms in its very movement the constitutive elements that form it? And might we not also consider the knowledge of knowledge as a construction in movement?

We need a kind of thinking that reconnects that which is disjointed and compartmentalized, that respects diversity as it recognizes unity, and that tries to discern interdependencies. We need a radical thinking (which gets to the root or problems), a multidimensional thinking, and an organizational or systemic thinking.

Edgar Morin - On Complexity
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