"Necessity, in so far far as it is absolutely other than the good, is the good itself."
To be & not to be
Alain Badiou quote on the fragility of drawing in Jean-Luc Nancy's "sketchbook"
Žižek on Michelangelo’s drawing of Christ on the Cross
For the first time in the history of painting, an artist tried to capture Christ's abandonment by God-Father.
The Bird with Golden Wings
Excerpt from a letter written by Simone Weil
Slavoj Žižek — In Defence of Christianity
Short Youtube clip of Zizek: "what dies on the cross is God beyond Himself" / the mystery of belief / believing through others (canned laughter) / believing there is someone who believes
A point of eternity in the soul
Simone Weil / Søren Kierkegaard
By Creating Worlds in the Befouled Unworld
Bernard Stiegler, The Age of Disruption / Psalm 84 / True Devotion to Mary / "to believe in the possibility of a miracle"
Simone Weil, Affliction & the metaphor of the Nail
"He whose soul remains ever turned toward God through the nail, though the nail pierces it, finds himself nailed to the very center of the universe"
Parallax of The Poor Man
Žižek discusses Meister Eckhart in Surplus-Enjoyment
ATLAS
Framework and source material for a series of paintings