Concept
reflex
2 writings
- idiom is a pun that forgot its second reading Philosophical formulas age from live puns — one surface carrying two irreconcilable readings — into idioms when repetition seals one reading beneath comfort; dissonance, not resolution, is the condition of thought that remains generative.
- what the reflex can't sing Vibrato and dome curvature show that sustained responses to force generate felt apparitions — warmth, the sensation of rising — that instantaneous reflexes cannot produce; the witness may not be a separate faculty but what duration itself generates.