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| =====Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism - Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton===== | =====Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism — Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton===== |
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| ===BUDDHAPHOBIA==== | ====BUDDHAPHOBIA==== |
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| <blockquote>There is something ambiguous, something queer about the statue—something that might awaken anxiety, but in the Buddhist context in which the statue is viewed, no one seems anxious. As I shall argue here, this queerness is precisely correlated to the irrational fear of Buddhism. Indeed, many of the coordinates of what is here called Buddhaphobia overlap with those of homophobia: a fear of intimacy, a fear of ambiguity, a fear of inwardness and introversion, a fear of theory rather than praxis</blockquote> | <blockquote>There is something ambiguous, something queer about the statue—something that might awaken anxiety, but in the Buddhist context in which the statue is viewed, no one seems anxious. As I shall argue here, this queerness is precisely correlated to the irrational fear of Buddhism. Indeed, many of the coordinates of what is here called Buddhaphobia overlap with those of homophobia: a fear of intimacy, a fear of ambiguity, a fear of inwardness and introversion, a fear of theory rather than praxis</blockquote> |
| <blockquote>The Law of Noncontradiction (LNC) has been the touchstone of Western philosophy. The touchstone, that is, until Georg Cantor and nineteenth-century mathematicians discovered all kinds of entities that defied it</blockquote> | <blockquote>The Law of Noncontradiction (LNC) has been the touchstone of Western philosophy. The touchstone, that is, until Georg Cantor and nineteenth-century mathematicians discovered all kinds of entities that defied it</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Yet this teeming world is underwritten by nothingness | <blockquote>Yet this teeming world is underwritten by nothingness</blockquote> |
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