Our Present Crisis

The regime that had a monument erected only to have it torn down right away, had no inclination of the true meaning of its actions, and in particular, it never realized that through its action, the metaphysics of the modern times is exposed: provisionalism and nihilism. What more telling way is there to depict nothingness and ephemeral transcience than by a monument which, designed to “last forever”, hardly survives a few months? The regime that had the statesman's corps embalmed, the mummy dressed in a general's uniform, then put it into civic clothes, and finally had it cremated, had no inkling about its decision making and particularly missed the fact that through its actions, the metaphysics of the modern times is exposed, which lost respect to the living and to the dead because it had transformed everything into a subject of manipulation and thereby opened an unlimited realm for indifference and lack of taste

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Ephemeral key · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Nihilism · Nothing · Political science · Realm · Subject (documents · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty

• No (Wo)Man's Land

  Elaine Weiner, Elaine S Weiner•Social Problems•2005

  Add to list