穿越林蔭間,整個人被震耳鳴叫所包圍,集結帶出的強力,映出置身
被自然與文明夾擊吞噬的微弱性命,在窗戶之外拍翼,嘶破公路上熙
蟬在場,在寄語。
﹣寫於2012年6月7日,李旺陽先生死亡翌日。
Benjamin described his work as a "Copernican revolution" in the practice of history writing. His aim was to destroy the mythic immediacy of the present, not by inserting it into a cultural continuum that affirms the present as its culmination, but by discovering that constellation of historical origins which has the power to explode history's "continuum." In the era of industrial culture, consciousness exists in a mythic, dream state, against which historical knowledge is the only antidote. But the particular kind of historical knowledge that is needed to free the present from myth is not easily uncovered. Discarded and forgotten, it lies buried within surviving culture, remaining invisible precisely because it was of so little use to those in power.