I've been in Canberra these last two days and so I thought that I'd post a Canberra image. What I find interesting is the way that words have been incorporated into the image, and so its roots are in Lettrism.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, freedom graffiti, Canberra 2007

This image has little to do with what I experienced in Canberra: the importance and functions of public moods, which are neither the fleeting and misleading companions of reason nor the epiphenomena of chemical facts. The heart of human being, says Heidegger, is neither the things with which we deal nor the moods we have, but our understanding.

These moods are pre-cognitive and are very different to the personal moods of psychopathology. Moods disclose entire situations, do so pervasively, and disclose to us how we are doing and faring. They disclose how things are matter and are atmospheric.

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Posted by: Les | November 17, 2007 06:58 PM

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