out of the bits and pieces (pitstop)
Robert Sokolowski:
“Modes of presentation and representation proliferate and fascinating issues arise: How is an email message different from a telephone call and a letter? Who is addressing us when we read a Web page? How are speakers, listeners, and conversation modified by the way we communicate now?
One of the dangers we face is that with the technological expansion of images and words, everything seems to fall aport into mere appearances. We might formulate this problem in terms of the three themes of parts and wholes, identity in manifold, and presence and absence: it seems that we now are flooded by fragments without any wholes, by manifolds bereft of identities, and by multiple absences without any enduring real presence. We have bricolage and nothing else, and we think we can even invent ourselves at random by assembling convenient and pleasing but transient identities out of the bits and pieces we find around us. We pick up fragments to shore against our ruin”.
Robert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology, Cambridge University Press, USA, 2006. Pages 3 and 4.
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