Thought and life
Arises at the intersection
At a given moment
The shadow self relates to multiple others at an oblique angle, as the concept of the subjective is not contained in that of the objective. Nevertheless, objects of existence are inexhaustible.
“Nothing sensible – whether it be an affective or perceptual quality – can exist in the way it is given to me in the thing by itself, when it is not related to me or to any other living creature.” – Quentin Meillassoux
Early morning
New Orleans
Side walking
Nature must exist even if there is no consciousness that is aware of its existence. As the shadowself and a close companion make their way down Poydras Street, the objective and the subjective are simultaneously united and mutually opposed.
“The intrinsic notion of everything merely objective in our knowledge we may speak of as nature.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Energy source
Spirit transfer
Ceiling floaters
Inside the Alexandria Genealogical Library, objects of practical attention take precedence over the theoretically possible. This orientation stems not from a primary conceptual justification, but rather from our actual existence as secular spirits.
“All proofs that the idealist offers for the existence of determinate external things must be derived from the primordial mechanism of intuition itself, that is, by a genuine construction of objects.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Actuality operator
Context dependent
Referential explication
For Schelling, the self’s life is not a mathematicized interplay of eidetic shapes within time, but rather time itself. From this view, the finite endures and resists inclusion within any arbitrary totalization.
“For on the basis of this very same perception our utterance could have sounded quite differently and thereby have unfolded a quite different sense.” – Edmund Husserl
Following light phases
Factors that influence
Heightened activity
Riding shotgun around Alexandria Louisiana during the ‘blue hour’ is a rich cinematic excursion. The series lies in space as a function of duration.
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.” – Henry David Thoreau
Restless energization
Splayed forth as time
Among appearances
In the relationship of reason to nature, the individual raises itself to the highest power of consciousness through a rational and graduated sequence of intuitions. The same powers of intuition that reside in the self also manifests by degrees in nature. To confer upon the whole an internal coherence which time cannot touch, no necessary intervening step can be omitted.
“We feel time as a continuous flow, with no clearly demarcated beginnings and ends.” – John-Francis Phipps
Obscure hiding
Didactic exposition
Time in consciousness
Passing by scenery offered systematically and in detail, such appearances are sometimes distinctively significant. The primordial element is light in its most illuminating exposition, unequivocally presented in its temporal movement.
“Every appearance is, as representation in the mind, under the form of inner sense, which is time. Every representation is so constituted that the mind goes through it in time; that is, the mind expounds the appearance; thus every appearance is expoundable.” – Immanuel Kant
Infuse blender
Smoothie serving
Psychographic trends
Participating in food chain requirements, embellished with modern convenience, patrons seek not fast food but rather good food quickly.
“Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.” – Richard Hayne
Continued succession
Of appearances
Bound to time
Artifacts and idealized narratives can become revenue sources based on enticement. Perpetuated through methods of display and diluted interpretation, tourist attractions construct narrow landscapes.
“The finite endures and resists inclusion within any arbitrary totalization.” – Michael Vater
Idealistically motivated
Natural inclination
Opaque activity
Within the unconscious nature of the self’s activity lies an essential ambiguity which cannot be completely articulated or conceptually resolved. Schelling supports this position, as he claims the unconsciousness act is never realized definitively and exhaustively in any conscious awareness, but rather is the life and source of the whole system of finitude.
“Intelligence and instinct are forms of consciousness which must have interpenetrated each other in their rudimentary state and become dissociated as they grew.” – Henri Bergson