To safeguard the earth or respect the weather, the wind and rain, we would have to think toward the long term and because we don’t live out in the weather, we’ve unlearned how to think in accordance with its rhythms and its scope. Concerned with maintaining his position, the politician makes plans that rarely go beyond the next election, the administrator reigns over the next fiscal budgetary year, and news goes out on a daily and weekly basis, As for contemporary science, its born in journal articles that almost never go back more than ten years; even if work on the paleoclimate recapitulates tens of millennia, it goes back less than three decades itself. Michel Serres(2011) Malfesance

i have had this book since 2008 and have never been able to read it. because it contains early versions of a favorite novel.„ the sublime The Sailor From Gibraltar… one day perhaps…

Signification does not exhaust meaning, but neither does signification combined with designation. We cannot be satisfied with this choice of two spaces between which discourse — the system’s as well as the subject’s - insinuates itself. There exists another figural space, One must assume it buried, for it shuns sight and thought; it indicates itself laterally, fleetingly, within discourses and perceptions, as what disturbs them, It is desires own space, what is at stake in the struggle that painters and poets tirelessly wage against the return of the Ego and text.

In trying to characterize this space, or at least its effects in the facts of discourse or sight, one is not only attempting to separate it from the order of signification or from the depth of designation; rather, one positions oneself to approach the site where truth is at work. Truth is not to be found in the order of knowledge: o encounters it in its unruliness, as an event. #Lyotard

Between opposition and difference lies the difference of the space of the text to that of the figure. This difference is not of degree; it constitutes an ontological rift. The two spaces are two orders of meaning that communicate but which, by the same token are divided. Rather than space of the text one should speak of textual space; instead of space of the figure, figural space…. #Lyotard

At present I blame myself for writing: it’s always like this after I finish a book. And if it means falling into my present state afterwards, writing isn’t worth a candle.  If I can’t do it without being in danger of drinking again, it’s just not worth while. That’s what I say to myself sometimes, as if I could help it ….

Duras - Practicalities - 1991 Flamingo, London…