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There are moments when ordinary daily life ceases to be self-evident. This is a state of…

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The Experience of Exposing Structure We are accustomed to treating boredom with novelty, information, and movement,…

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There is a way of loving that leaves no trace on the one who is loved.…

Space that fails to coincide Sometimes it seems the space around has shifted, but so slightly…

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The room no longer obeys Euclid. The straight lines of the walls gently bow to the…

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Is a Vertical Possible in the Presence of the Other? When you are no longer the…

I. Anatomy as Ontology Perhaps structure does not belong to reality itself, but arises as a…

The proclamation of the death of God is usually perceived as the liberation of the Center…

Previous reflections on the vertical, language, and metaphysical void were based on the presupposition of an…

From anagoge to enduring Plotinus, you taught that the soul’s path is anagoge – an ascent…

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Silence as tension We are accustomed to perceiving silence as an absence – of sound, events,…

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What does it mean to live in the vertical? Most of human life unfolds horizontally. We…

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