Sign in with Facebook
“As with every bottomless gaze, as with the eyes of the other, the gaze called “animal” offers to my sight the abyssal limit of the human: the inhuman or the ahuman, the ends of man, that is to say, the bordercrossing from which vantage man dares to announce himself to himself, thereby calling himself by the name that he believes he gives himself.”
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
“Being after, being alongside, being near [près] would appear as different modes of being, indeed of being-with.”
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
“A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue”
― Miniature Mausoleums
― Miniature Mausoleums
“Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“God who doesn’t know what is going to happen to him with language. And with names. In short, God doesn’t yet know what he really wants: this is the finitude of a God who doesn’t know what he wants with respect to the animal, that is to say, with respect to the life of the living as such, a God who sees something coming without seeing it coming, a God who will say “I am that I am” without knowing what he is going to see when a poet enters the scene to give his name to living things. This powerful yet deprived “in order to see” that is God’s, the first stroke of time, before time, God’s exposure to surprise, to the event of what is going to occur between man and animal, this time before time has always made me dizzy.”
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
― The Animal That Therefore I Am
Nouranapps’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Nouranapps’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
473 books
|
97 friends
633 books
|
54 friends
765 books
|
97 friends
193 books
|
20 friends
1,122 books
|
98 friends
561 books
|
125 friends
337 books
|
92 friends
452 books
|
63 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Nouranapps
Lists liked by Nouranapps
