Oran McKenzie @omck

On a kind of platform, thinking about Nietzsche’s small, terse fact: a thought comes when ‘it’ wishes, not when ‘I’ wish. Joined April 2009

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Oran McKenzie @omck

4 months ago

@BDCryptoGuru Sure, that sounds enticing

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“Nous pouvons plus que ce monde, quoique à partir de lui” Pas de croyance en une transformation facile, pas de fausses solutions face à la mort des corps pour Averroès. Et pourtant, pas de limitations non plus. Il y a plus que la matière, par elle. (toujours Brenet qui invite)

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Oran McKenzie @omck

9 months ago

« … de préférence sur des montagnes solitaires ». Où est-ce que la pensée a lieu? Nietzsche dit: pas dans les livres, ni par eux. Mais on est pas tous Nietzsche.

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emily is in sf @emilyinvc

a year ago

to me, the greatest sadness of all is the banality of most people's lives i'll spend time with my non-elite friends, and it's clear that their lives are devoid of heroism and lore they lock in/clock in, but they fight no great battles, they dash no great foes they drop by a club or bar, but find no great loves there they travel the world, but it is by no means an adventure they return home, but they are not welcomed by a triumph – no, all they have are their succulents and the pile of dirty laundry they failed to do before they left

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Oran McKenzie @omck

a year ago

@EdwardWilsonLee @WmCollinsBooks Beautiful title and cover image, really enticing.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

« (… comme si l’on pouvait encore aujourd’hui fêter une fête, même une fête des morts, dans ce monde vermoulu.) » Jaccottet, dans la salle d’attente.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

« Les arts reposent sur l’inconnu de la pensée » Paul Valéry, presque au hasard. Je cherche dans ses cahiers de quoi élever les propos scientifiques sur la créativité. Cette phrase harponne, découvrant un petit bout d’une pensée qui ne se connaissait pas encore.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

@levelsio For analysing articles in management, strategy and innovation literature, Claude 3.5 is definitely more precise and useful. Difficult to pinpoint exactly what doesn’t work with GPT, but using both side to side I always end up using Claude.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

Back to reading old things, back to writing? Aiming directly at the heart of it, possibly aided by Conrad.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

‘It was somber enough too—and pitiful—not extraordinary in any way—not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light’.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

‘It was the furthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me—and into my thoughts.’

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Oran McKenzie @omck

2 years ago

« Tu tombes, je veux tomber avec toi » Continue ta descente avec Jung

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

Certainties are unfinished thoughts.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

Une petite pour la nuit: « Aristote dit que philosopher, c’est s’étonner. Philosopher, peut-être. Mais penser, non. Penser, c’est tomber sur des corps ». Jean-Baptiste Brenet et son Averroès, ma flamme, mon espoir. [Que veut dire penser ? (2022)]

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

First tweet on the situation that doesn’t just depress me, first message that elicits an answer. First time I see someone actually trying to think through the situation, without just posturing with the aim of pushing the reader towards one camp or the other, or worst, insulting the reader because it is assumed that her or she holds the wrong views. First gleamer of hope: the path is hard, but there might be one. Thank you for sharing this perspective.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

« La pensée du premier jour est sans motif extraordinaire. Elle n’est jamais spectaculaire, elle se fait par-devers soi, débordé qu’on est par le monde des êtres qui manifestent leurs traits d’union ». Jean-Baptiste Brenet Il existe des vies qui consistent à conduire la pensée jusqu’à l’extraordinaire, au moment où elle se retourne sur elle-même pour sonder « le jaillissement [qui] se dérobe » et écrire ce genre de phrase. Et il y a les autres, qui restent plus prisonnières de « l’impression … de foison, de dissémination, de coupure, de variété rebelle ». La beauté des efforts de l’homme.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

Are you scared of who you are?

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Oran McKenzie @omck

3 years ago

@ssishuwa Very inspiring. I just discovered your twitter account and reached that post that touched me profoundly. Will read your other work. Thank you for sharing your story.

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Oran McKenzie @omck

4 years ago

@lexfridman “a poem is an action of the mind captured on a page… [reading a poem] is a movement of yourself through a thought, through an activity of thinking, so by the time you get to the end you're different than you were at the beginning” Anne Carson, close to a definition of poetry

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Oran McKenzie @omck

4 years ago

« La conscience d’être seul, c’est toujours, dans la pénombre, la nostalgie d’être deux ». Bachelard, après quelques lignes, perçoit sa pensée qui, faite une, se brise. Et moi de m’isoler et de m’affoler, avec tout l’univers, dans ces quelques mots.