You Were Here Before

You recognize this rock. Yes, you're lost.

“This is an experiment of acting as if you were dead. […] But what does it mean to be dead, when you are not totally dead? It means that you look at things the way they are as such, you look at the object as such. To perceive the object as such implies that you perceive the object as it is or as it is supposed to be when you are not there. To see the bottle as such means to see the bottle as it would be without me. If I were dead the bottle would remain the same as it is, the colour, the same consistency, and so on. So, to relate to an object as such means to relate to it as if you were dead. That’s the condition of truth, the condition of perception, the condition of objectivity, at least in their most conventional sense.”
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This is like the first piece of Derrida writing that makes complete sense to me and I can explain it to anyone.

Jacques Derrida: As If I were Dead (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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