Two quick notes:

Evgeny Rukhin1. Last night, I went to sleep and had a dream that I was sitting with Evgeny Rukhin in his Moscow apartment in the 1970s and he was telling me that he was the future of painting. There was a huge roaring fire and he was breaking antique chairs and feeding the flames with them. Although I wrote off his boastfulness in my dream as painterly ego, I woke this morning feeling strange. What was my brain trying to organize here? Does my subconscious think Rukhin was a better painter than my conscious mind does? This seems a strange portent. Although, on the same note, one might just be happy that one’s dreams bring back something that one hasn’t thought about in too long.

2. This website may continue to suffer for a while. I don’t have any time for it now, and it is my hobby. However, seeing as I am spending 5-8 hours a day with Hegel recently, I have found myself in need of a break occasionally, and have enjoyed some really amazing web comics. I give them to you now as well to enjoy if you don’t already.

  1. Anne Frank conquers the Moon Nazis
  2. Drew Weing draws many things, but particularly promising is Little Trees
  3. Eleanor Davis draws some really great stuff, including Yolk.

2. Here is the formulation I read over and over in Hegel:

But Force is also the whole, i.e. it remains what it is according to its Notion [Begriff] that is to say, these differences remain pure forms, superficial vanishing moments. At the same time there would be no difference at all between Force proper which has been driven back into itself, and Force unfolded into independent ‘matters’, if they had no enduring being [wenn sie nicht ein Bestehen hätten], or, there would be no Force if it did not exist in these opposite ways.