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Todd McGowan - Dial D For Dialectics

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Spirit Is Never at Rest, but Always Engaged in Moving Forward

The preface to phenomenology is the most readable part of it, and it's also a pretty good introduction to his thought. I think that that last sentence here, spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in moving forward, i think goes to how hegel sees dialectics functioning. Spirit has broken with the world it was hitherto inhabited and imagined, and is of a mind to submerge it in the past and in the labor of its own transformation. It's not difficult to c that ours is a birthtime and period of transition to a new era.

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