Tag: Free-form Jottings
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Kandinsky, Hegel, Kojève
Nothing better than making connections on a Friday night, especially when the topic was left from five years ago. Somehow I remembered reading a submission paper senior year in college on Kandinsky's creation process - it was a very philosophical exploration. Although I turned it down (I no…
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Turning 26 (on 12/14/2020)
If the ending of life is death, then the meaning of life is a creative fight to destroy oneself — that’s Freud’s Thanatos and Eros. Looking retrospectively on my 25th year into the destruction, or rather the creation of something to destroy later, I found 2020 to be the…
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Nightmare on a Yesterday
Disclaimer: It might appear that my life is sad. But that's not true - the majority of the time I'm happy (speaking of a person who's very low in neuroticism). I only write sad stuff because it helps me organize my thoughts and process…
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2022年二月第二周
It is not yet Saturday, but I'm putting together songs for tomorrow's run. I'm looking forward to it. The weather is going to be nice. 谢安琪的离不开要加进去。这是一首慢歌，但它的旋律能配合我的脚步。这些日子我的训练并不追求速度。慢下来后反而有种期待的享受。久违的感觉。一种完全的自由。想跑到哪里就去哪里，想在哪里停下就在哪里停下。 这周讨论的问题围绕着control和他人的agency。我说了这么一句话, wanting to control is not recognizing that other…
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Music and Life
Music is an interesting construction. It builds an anticipation that can almost be detected by the unconsciousness, but it retains a sense of otherness that realizes itself with the imprint of time. If painting is displaying an image at one glance, music is painting with the brush of time. In…