The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 31.
“World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.”
"The Twelve Caesars"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 23
“The great events of the world take place in the brain…”
Interview with Nobel Media (2014)
Context: We are going to organise End Child Slavery Week from 19th November to 25th November, and that would be an annual event which we would be organising every year on different aspects of child slavery, and this year we are demanding to the international community that the abolition of child slavery must be incorporated into the post-millennium development goal or the sustainable development goal. So that would be the emphasis of this year's End Child Slavery Week.
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don’t forget.”
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 5
Context: We Shall Naturally look round in vain the macrophysical world for acausal events, for the simple reason that we cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist... The so-called "scientific view of the world" based on this can hardly be anything more than a psychologically biased partial view which misses out all those by no means unimportant aspects that cannot be grasped statistically.
