Transience: A Poiesis, of Dis/Appearance

By Wolfgang Schirmacher and Julia Hlzl

Still, duration seems to be considered a "first-rate-value on earth," as deemed by Nietzsche more than 120 years ago, whereas transience tends to be negated. Eluding their re-presentationability, ephemera are sub-ordinated to the enduring and are only thought of as and in relation to permanence. Thinking them as such rather than as such, this book unfolds an onto-phaino menology of transience: a poiesis of the only once, as the only once-an ethics of dis/appearance, a praxis of uttering the unutterable. For there is no here for the now. Review: This text shines like the sea: always in motion, in waves, short or long, with a thousand gleams of the sun, and a thousand small appearances of foam; and one is far from any coast. -Jean-Luc Nancy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982530986
• ISBN13: 9780982530986
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Atropos Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"