Tower of Sleep

After Kant’s copernican turn, physis (the body or nature) lost its intrinsic relation to a meta-, to a transcending realm. As we shall see, Benjamin saw this loss economically, as well as theologically, enacted in capitalism. Note that such absence of signification engulfs the whole of nature (human nature included) in a mealstrom of guilt. In other words, the body without signification might not be worth preserving, since it has become nonsensical.

—Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew (via hollovv)

(Source: autochthones)