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Christopher Satoor - Schelling and The Ages of the World

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Delos's 'Thunder, Lightning'

In a thunderstorm, we humans are so used in this kind of human causation to realize that, oh, when we see thunder, we see lightning, but that's not what happens. What happens is warm air rises, cold air falls down, condensation comes together. And then boom, the thunder happens because now what's happened is the forces have somehow been put together in a to an assemblage or a multiplicity. Then we realize the individuation of the storm by the lightning clap. So being as the real and the what is as this ideal, they are in the same process stretched between these two processes.

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