Jean Luc Nancy, The Birth to Presence
What is presence? What is birth?
Nancy states that, 'birth is not the constitution of an identity but the endless departure of an identity from, and from within, its other or others. Its coming is not desire but jouissance, the joy of averring oneself to be continually in the state of being born, a rejoicing of birth, a birth of rejoicing'.
As for presence, we should conceive of presence as 'presence to someone, including to presence itself'.
A coming as an arriving....
Arrival as presence, as awakeness to truth...
Poetry as the presentation of presence, but of course presence cannot be re-presented without first diluting it and then destroying it.
So, how to conceive of presence?
Take the train,with the bicycle in tow, to the foot of the hills.... and then use the foot to tow being into presence itself.
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