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Vita Activa 3x3 inspired by the last point in my thread just now. cc and others interested in Arendtology.
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Conversely, can something that has all the drama of public appearance have none of the historic consequentiality of Arendtian action we correlate it to? Of course. Most politics is in fact like that. Fine, I guess I should make this 3x3 matrix and blog it.
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Ozymandias above is not a reference to Rameses 2 the pharoah, but to the poem about the forgotten statue head lying in the desert.
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Arendt I think didn’t realize she was collapsing 2 dimensions into one: doing/seeing-to-be-doing. Or perhaps doing/signaling is the right pair. That’s why her theory has a degeneracy and she only deals with the principal diagonal do/signal pairings.