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if we are something and nothing

“Nothing subsists in a point, except for the simple exteriority of points in relation to each other. A point consists of nothing (it has no “inside”): it is merely relation to other points. There is no point of space nor point of time (as if it were a little particle of the one or the other), but space and time are the one-outside-the-other of punctuality itself. Thus punctiform space immediately opens time which goes from one point to the other – and time opens space as the truth of its trajectory (the point which is already not the one and not yet the other). The encounter of space and time: here-and-now.”

– from “The Technique of the Present“, by Jean-Luc Nancy

I found some sort correlation to this and the viewing of bodies in space as per Sim’s piece in front of the Tate, and thinking about identity as this punctiform being—-what it is, what we are or can be, as nothing more than a series of relations, identity as nothing more than a here-and-now…

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