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preface §13
monochromatic formalism: this expansion has not come about through one and the same principle spontaneously assuming different shapes but rather through shapeless repetition of one and the same formula, only externally applied to diverse materials, thereby obtaining merely a boring show of diversity
being-in-and-for-itself must be *for itself* too, not just __for us__
gotta love making the familiar strange
§32 is great for "the tremendous power of the negative". analysis breaks up the familiar into thoughts which are themselves familiar but what is separated is the essential negative moment.
holding onto dead intert objects requires strength (eg. positivism). beauty lacks strength and hates understanding (eg. esotericism). spirit doesnt shrink from death but devastates itself and maintains itself through this process of dismembering analysis
i think really this is what is at stake with my recent turning away from this "let's get lost" mindset. that yes for a long time i was too determinate, too fixed, i needed to think myself out of my time and place. but what i failed to recognize (and probably couldn't have recognized until going
through it painfully) was that escape from determinateness and understanding was just that negative moment but wasn't the last word. yes i was overwhelmed with assertions and bad dismemberments and impositions of legibility for others. but just rejecting those doesn't move you anywhere by itself,
it's just pure resistance. historically necessary resistance that i now feel ready to supersede, which is why this is an apt time to return to hegel
using buzzwords like this is very goofy nooby undergradcore but its useful to invoke an immediate sense of what im reading yknow