FUCK THEORY
Experiments in visceral philosophy.
Temporality & Metaphor: Notes on the Representation of Time
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“Further, from the fact that we are able to delimit Duration and Quantity as we please, conceiving Quantity in abstraction from Substance and separating the efflux of Duration from things eternal, there arise Time and Measure: Time to delimit Duration and Measure to delimit Quantity in such wise as enables us to imagine them easily, as far as possible…Hence it can clearly be seen that Measure, Time, and Number are nothing other than modes of thinking, or rather, modes of imagining. It is therefore not surprising that all who have attempted to understand the workings of Nature by such concepts, and furthermore without really understanding these concepts, have tied themselves into such extraordinary knots that int he end they have been unable to extricate themselves except by breaking through everything and perpetrating the grossest absurdities.”
- Spinoza, Letter 12 to Meyer, April 1663 (trans. Samuel Shirley)
