Worldlessness #1

RELATED TERMS: World; World-as-Milieu; World-Building; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design A Possible Phenomenology of the Anonymous, the Invisible, the Im-material and the Im-mediate It was noted in The Paradox of the Anonymous that Dan Hancox (2025) projectively and retrojectively ascribes to Walter Benjamin a wish or a command for us, “to sift through the rubble,Continue reading “Worldlessness #1”

The Paradox of the Anonymous: When We Wake [Snippets 9]

RELATED TERMS: History; Large Language Models; Hallucination and Confabulation “The Arcades Project, Benjamin’s great study of 19th-century Paris, is in Jameson’s phrase an unfinished ‘collection of clippings’.” “Benjamin thought of writing a book consisting entirely of quotations; Wittgenstein contemplated writing one consisting entirely of jokes.” (Terry Eagleton, 2021) Walter Benjamin and Brian Eno, in differentContinue reading “The Paradox of the Anonymous: When We Wake [Snippets 9]”