15 November 2009
12 October 2009
The thing things
"'The thing things,' [Heidegger] writes in one essay....Here the verb says exactly the same thing as the subject....the thing has now become an act."
-Barbara Johnson, Persons and Things. (Harvard University Press, 2008)
Gabriel Orozco's "Home Run," via Thinking Art/Works, via Warren B4
-Barbara Johnson, Persons and Things. (Harvard University Press, 2008)
Gabriel Orozco's "Home Run," via Thinking Art/Works, via Warren B4
11 October 2009
What is a thing?
"What in truth is the thing, so far as it is a thing? When we inquire in this way, our aim is to come to know the thing-being (thingness) of the thing. The point is to discover the thingly character of the thing. To this end we have to be acquainted with the sphere to which all those entities belong which we have long called by the name of thing."
-Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art."
-Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art."
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