...thus is Nietzsche..., thus was Nietzsche…

By: Maria Odete Madeira

Creator of his own “power”, as source and principle of all the values, thus is Nietzsche’s Übermensch and thus was Nietzsche…

…For Nietzsche, who, throughout history, was so many times misinterpreted and manipulated, it was not about exercising “power” over the others, but of the exercise of his own “power”, as “power to be” and “power of being” in the existence, through an individual will, capable of self-determination, according to the means and the ends, “enacted” from his own internal force and dynamism, displaced by the individuated resonating rhythms of himself, as presence in the flux of all the things in the becoming of themselves.

...“Infinite” is a category of the human language...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

“Infinite” is a category of the human language to designate that which, though ontologically perceptioned, is not possible for us, humans, to schematize. The “infinite” signalizes our verbalizable cognitive limit.

...there are no more innocent gazes...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

Sensus non est inferendus, sed efferendus. Thoughts, feelings, experiences and devices intermix and contaminate each other in the reflexive webs.

There are no more innocent gazes, there are contaminated, affected and infected gazes, folded by echoes of permanently reiterated resonances, projected in images that cross, intercross, fold and unfold.

Innocence became a place of passage, a place of exchanges. Sommes-nous des innocents, nous aussi?! Are we situs hybris without topos? Bodies without organs? Strange loop!

The eye of the matter vanquished the time (Vertov). The photogram became the creator of senses, became the clinamen of Epicurus.

...if we want to know...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

The things have to be “listened” to, perceptioned, interpreted and understood in their rotative topos. We have to see what is in the things and not what we want or wish to think about them.

The sun has its truth, the stars, and the planets, an ant, a stone, a spider have their own truth that explains them, as such, and that truth does not depend upon us observers. It is their truth and if we interest ourselves, if we want to know, we have to make an effort to synchronize our rotative rhythms with the rotative rhythms of each of them, to make emerge a gravitic point of systemic synchronization in order to listen to them, perceive them, understand them.

...Saudade...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

...In illo tempore, it was the myth. It was a fluid, fluctuating and volatile time and space, it was a time and a space creators of visual, tactile, acoustic and olphactive spaces and times, conceptually non-schematizable...

...Saudade is a Portuguese term, without translation into other languages, mythically configured by the extreme-western-atlantic. Saudade resends to a place of veiling, situated in the rims of the ebbs, eddies and twirls of the Atlantic.

The fact of myself placed as alterity...

by: maria odete madeira

The fact of myself placed as alterity in relation with myself, in myself, folds in my conscious processes the feelings of justice and responsibility that impose upon me an imperative of justice and responsibility towards myself and everything that is not myself.

All life has to offer you are moments...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

All life has to offer you are moments, there are good moments and there are bad moments. In the end, all that matters is whether or not you've lived up to each moment, good or bad, that life has handed you to live, if you have, then, no matter what, you can say that you've lived a good life, a proper life.

It is said that life is a gift…, I disagree, life is a challenge, a struggle, if you are to keep on running, then you must wear your shoes, and strap them well, so they don't fail you through your paths.

A strong foundation is good, but it is never enough, there is always more that is required of you…, it turns out that "blood, sweat and tears" don't suffice either…, there is the need for that additional spark: the will to live, the courage to endure through the bad and to live through the good.

It is never enough to strap your shoes, you must know how to act, when to collect your gains, when to show your losses for what they are... losses.

Lessons in losses, losses in lessons, everything goes around, and around it goes...

Every circular motion has an end in a path away from freedom: freedom is to escape in kairos into a new rotation, to survive through the meekness to will to power, not the power that humans want for themselves, to keep the unkeepable in the face of decay, but a power to autonomy... to self-reference... to self-determination... to dignity...