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“Knowledge of the possibility of representation consoles us for being enslaved to life. Knowledge of life consoles us for the fact that representation is but shadow.”
Jean-Luc Godard
But we go on. We still have life to live, and we have got the representation to carry us through. So we live and in doing so discover that representation is “but shadow.” Shadow could mean a lot; maybe a silhouette or a dark projection or even a hard-to-get rid of company. Or maybe just an incomplete imperfect image. Now “knowledge of life” is not life, it is merely a hope that we will live and experience something real. So once immersed in representation, we view a hope of life only as a consolation. We again tend to like to escape from the too much representation into a hope of life, to escape from a shadow of life (and ourselves in it) to life’s reality.
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Description
“Knowledge of the possibility of representation consoles us for being enslaved to life. Knowledge of life consoles us for the fact that representation is but shadow.”
Jean-Luc Godard
But we go on. We still have life to live, and we have got the representation to carry us through. So we live and in doing so discover that representation is “but shadow.” Shadow could mean a lot; maybe a silhouette or a dark projection or even a hard-to-get rid of company. Or maybe just an incomplete imperfect image. Now “knowledge of life” is not life, it is merely a hope that we will live and experience something real. So once immersed in representation, we view a hope of life only as a consolation. We again tend to like to escape from the too much representation into a hope of life, to escape from a shadow of life (and ourselves in it) to life’s reality.
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