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There is thus an uncrossable chasm and a discontinuous relation separating, whilst at the same time joining together, the event and all attempts at comprehension, from which language and thought themselves arise disrupted, altered, and varied.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
The Catholic Church understood the nature and the size of the threat to its authority posed by the practice of private reading. By the Council of Trent in 1546, at which the Catholic Church recognized the Latin Vulgate Bible as the one true version of Scripture, the threat posed by the proliferation of printed books being read in private was clear. “No one, relying on his own skill, shall—in matters of faith, and of morals,” the Church proclaimed, “presume to interpret the said sacred Scripture” contrary to the Church.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
It was strange that a company’s reputation for security was more important than its actual security.
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