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Chris Lavergne

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“Listening to... is Dasein's existential way of Being-open as Being-with for Others. Indeed, hearing constitutes the primary and authentic way in which Dasein is open for its ownmost potentiality-for-Being—as in hearing the voice of the friend whom every Dasein carries with it. Dasein hears, because it understands.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Hearing, Hearing Hearing
“It requires a very artificial and complicated frame of mind to 'hear' a 'pure noise'. The fact that motor-cycles and waggons are what we proximally hear is the phenomenal evidence that in every case Dasein, as Being-in-the-world, already dwells alongside what is ready-to-hand within-the-world; it certainly does not dwell proximally alongside 'sensations'; nor would it first have to give shape to the swirl of sensations to provide the springboard from which the subject leaps off and finally arrives at a 'world'. Dasein, as essentially understanding, is proximally alongside what is understood.”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Tagged: Artificial, The Answer Is Already There
“Hypervisualism tends to neglect this truth and even sets out to reduce sound itself, and for that matter all the other senses, to vision through devices such as charts and wave measurements, mathematical or oscillographic, forgetting that none of these make any noise and that hence, however informative and desirable and useful and indispensable and beautiful and true they may be—and they are all of these—they are not directly sound at all but visual constructs having to do with sound. We generate our certainties not in a solipsistic universe of isolated 'observation' but in a total context which includes verbalization and in which we hope others will believe what we say. The scientist is no exception to this rule, only a special instance of its operation.”
— Walter Ong, Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Tagged: Hypervisualism, Reductionism
“As Stanley Crouch rightly has noted, fifty years ago black communities were the most civilized and humane in America— highly nurturing, caring, loving, and self-respecting behind the walls of American apartheid. The market invasion, including the ugly drug invasion, has transformed too many black neighborhoods into hoods, black civic communities into black uncivil combat zones.”
— Cornel West, Race Matters
Tagged: Drug War
“Imposing limits can encourage a creative response. Excellent work can emerge from uncomfortable or seemingly untenable circumstances.”
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc
Tagged: Confined Freedom
“Our job as managers in creative environments is to protect new ideas from those who don't understand that in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness. Protect the future, not the past.”
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc
Tagged: Advocate, Guardian, Management
“Laurie couldn't sleep. It was her third night at the Outpost, and the transition wasn't going as smoothly as she'd hoped. Part of it was the strangeness, after twenty-three years of marriage and nine months of communal living, of once again having a room of her own. She just wasn't accustomed to solitude anymore, the way that lying alone on a comfortable mattress could feel like tumbling endlessly through outer space.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Leaving, Solitude
“How does meaning occur at all? At that point one might say with Heraclitus ethos anthrēpōi daimoōn: to live authentically is to live the mystery of the thrown sustaining of meaning.”
— Thomas Sheehan, Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts
Tagged: Authentic Living, Damon, Thrown Being
“A good girlfriend is a good listener, she reminded herself. But she was just pretending, and she knew it. In her former life, Doug used to sit across this very table and try her patience in a similar way, with long-winded soliloquies about whatever deal he happened to be working on at the moment, filling her in on the arcane legal and financial details of the transaction , thinking out loud about the various stumbling blocks that might arise, and what he might do to overcome them. But no matter how bored she was, she always understood that Doug's work mattered to her on a personal level, that it would have consequences for their family, and that she needed to pay attention. As much as she appreciated Kevin's company, she couldn't quite convince herself that she needed to care about the intricacies of the building code or a deadline extension for pet licenses.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Idle Talk, Listening, Talk Talk
“We have a seemingly infinite capacity for misery. Yet if the human race is cursed, it is not so much because we have been thrown into suffering and mortality, nor because we have a deeper capacity for suffering than other creatures, but rather because we take suffering and mortality to be confirmations of the curse rather than the preconditions of human self-realization.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Tagged: Amor fati, Misery, Pain, Yeasayer