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This means, argues Kant, that the beauty experience is like the operating system on top of which all kinds of cool political apps are sitting, apps such as democracy. Nonviolently coexisting with a being that isn’t you is a pretty good basis for that.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
After that, the worst marksmen were considered the best soldiers; and the very worst of all always got First Prize.” “And how did you decide which was the very worst of all?” “Easily. The best possible shooting is, you know, to hit what is exactly in front of you: so of course the worst possible is to hit what is exactly behind you.”
Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL
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