Beyond Postmodernity

Beyond Postmodernity: Living and Thinking. A Nietzschean Journey
by Norbert Koppensteiner, 2009*

Freedoms just another word for nothing left to put down Kris Kristofferson To think is to voyage Gilles Deleuze

On Moving: A Personal Preface It has always been important for me to carry on. I was born(p) and brought up in Europe, in the closed and narrow landmark of the Tyrolean Alps, yet what has always drawn me to North the States is the longing for the vastness of its space, the desire to remain itinerant on an ever shifting trajectory, to become-imperceptible under an open horizon. There is something oddly compelling about the open plains and steppes, something that clears the mind and stills the chatter of thought. I believe that this activity of movement for prolonged periods of time has a meditative look that is enhanced when combined with the emptiness of tilt and earth. At junctures in my life I get to extremity out those unusual physical or mental spaces which take apart established procedures of living and thinking. At times I have half-jokingly referred to my life as permanent state of exception. The patterns that are so forming can be followed only in hindsight; they constitute a series of positions and trace a path on a map that is constantly being redrawn.



I understand to move in the very sense denoted by its use as verb: as a practice, a doing. Also when used as a noun, movement, consummation, what for me is implied is not so much a quality which a body can possess (to have movement), merely rather a being in motion. Having motion implies a pre-given body to which motion is just added as an additional quality. It propels a body through a medium (like space or time), with the body remaining self-identical throughout the movement. Being in motion, however, turns abject into a productive category. The being is then not a stability but a becoming. Being in motion is a process of change and transformation in which in that location is no longer a pre-given stable being that could...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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