some thoughts

some thinking and thoughts after reading some Hannah Arendt literature and criticism:

'In other words, if we are onlt the same in being different, if we have access to ourselves only through others within the public space of appearing, then the more we encounter difference as Arendt describes it, the more we have ourselves.'

lots of interesting stuff in relation to Arendt's interest in time (which i think is useful to bring to the fore in your work), this is quite long sorry, but interesting:

'The first thing to be noticed is that not only the future - 'the wave of the future' - but also the past is seen as a force, and not, as in nearly all our metaphors, as a burden man has to shoulder and of whose dead weight the loving can or even must get rid in their march into the future. In the words of Faulkner, 'the past is never dead, it is nor even past.' This past, moreover, reaching all the way back into the origin, does not pull back but presses forwards, and it is, contrary to what one would expect, the future which drives us back into the past. Seen from the viewpoint of man, who always lives in the interval between past and future, time is not a continuum, a flow of uninterrupted succession; it is broken in the middle, at the point where 'he' stands; and 'his' standpoint is not the present as we usually understand itbut rather a gap in time which 'his' constand fighting, 'his' making a stand against past and future, keep in existence.'

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