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For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be absolutely and completely irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension and surpassing and challenging its own representation, extent, and context.
Hence, an event truly worthy of the name, Derrida says, already lies beyond the domain of the possible, the domain of the possible possibilities. The event is grounded in the impossible itself.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
All of this creates a kind of “social atrophy” as Perel calls it. We are so burned out by our data-heavy, screen-based, supposedly friction-free lives that we no longer have the time or energy to engage in the kind of small, unfabulous, mundane, place-based friendships or acquaintance-ships that have nourished and sustained humans for literal centuries.
The Friendship Problem
Rosie Spinks
Conversation’s got to have some root in the past, or else you’ve got to explain every remark you make, an’ it wears a person out.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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