“It is a necropolis built out of the ‘dead bones’ of human thought, a site where, within its deeply structured tombs, Hegel’s Geist is to be found materialized in silicon, shackled and fettered by capital’s signifying chains.”
“Both schools share in dismantling dualistic perception by positing that subject and object are not ultimately separate. Both regard ignorance as the veil obscuring self-recognition, and both place transformative cognition at the heart of liberation.”
“which may or may not be / our true face behind the mask(s) but might as well be / because we’ve run out of time, and, frankly, we’re tired / of asking—nay, begging—the quest(ions) for / clarification—”
“I stop before a huge, twisted old oak tree sprouting from the white plane of someone’s lawn. Snow dusts the tops
of its branches, which weave their jagged way into night. Reaching outward. They remind me of an illustration of dendrites in a biology textbook. Nerve ends stretching
toward a stimulus.”
“But if the goal is to derive a truth from experience, however attached we may be to it, then we must be bold to declare something sure of it …. The materials are subjective, but the methods are not.”
“Affable, compassionate and provocative,
Hat employs modern neurology in an investigation of what it means to be human in contexts which often rob us of the very things we most associate with humanity: our memories, our perceptions, our intellect and our health.”
“If the movement is to grow beyond these elementary stages of development, it will have to disabuse itself of some of its prejudices about organization and structure.”
“Res Futura was founded on the realization that, before such bold ideological assaults might be of use, a society must exist that is capable of wielding them.”