The whole art is to know how to disappear before dying and instead of dying. At any rate, nothing just vanishes; of everything that disappears there remain traces. The problem is what remains when everything has disappeared…like the judgement of God: God disappears, but he leaves behind his judgement…We may thus suppose that everything that disappears--institutions, values, prohibitions, ideologies, even ideas--continues to lead a clandestine existence and exert an occult influence…Everything that disappears seeps back into our lives in infinitesimal doses, often more dangerous than the visible authority that ruled over us.
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
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The past is never closed, never finished once and for all, but there is no taking it back, setting time aright, putting the world back on its axis. There is no erasure finally. The trace of all reconfigurings are written into the enfolded materialisations of what was/ is/ to-come. Time can’t be fixed. To address the past (and future), to speak with ghosts, is not to entertain or reconstruct some narrative of the way it was, but to respond, to be responsible, to take responsibility for that which we inherit (from the past and the future), for the entangled relationalities of inheritance that ‘we’ are, to acknowledge and be responsive to the noncontemporaneity of the present, to put oneself at risk, to risk oneself (which is never one or self), to open oneself up to indeterminacy in moving towards what is to-come. Responsibility is by necessity an asymmetrical relation/doing, an enactment, a matter of différance, of intra-action, in which no one/ no thing is given in advance or ever remains the same. Only in this ongoing responsibility to the entangled other, without dismissal (without ‘enough already!’), is there the possibility of justice-to-come.
Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come, Karen Barad
Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come, Karen Barad