Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

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In Search of the Child’s Innocence, by Caroline Heinrich (translated by Alan N. Shapiro)

April 15th, 2010 in Category: Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard

I begin with a quotation. "The child is innocence and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a sport, a self-propelling wheel, a first motion, a sacred Yes", writes Nietzsche in Zarathustra. The child is innocent because s/he starts all over again from scratch. S/he starts from the space of emptiness that the lion has carved out.