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| Greek statue, British Museum, 20.Jan.14 |
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| self, workplace, 27.Jan.14 |
“Obsessed with being, and forgetful of the perspectivism of my
experience, I henceforth treat it as an object and deduce it from a
relationship between objects. I regard my body, which is my point of
view upon the world, as one of the objects of that world. My recent
awareness of my gaze as a means of knowledge I now repress, and treat
my eyes as bits of matter. They then take their place in the same objective space in which I am trying to situate the external object and I
believe that I am producing the perceived perspective by the projection
of the objects on my retina. In the same way I treat my own perceptual
history as a result of my relationships with the objective world; my
present, which is my point of view on time, becomes one moment of time among all the others, my duration a reflection or abstract aspect of
universal time, as my body is a mode of objective space.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Phenomenology of Perception'
