Life as the highest value cannot, of course, be demonstrated; it is a mere hypothesis, the assumption made by common sense that the will is free because without that assumption -- as has been said over and over -- no precept of a moral, religious, or juridical nature could possibly make sense. It is contradicted by the 'scientific hypothesis' according to which -- as Kant, notably, pointed out -- every act, the moment it enters the world, falls into a network of causes, and thus appears in a sequence of occurrences explicable only in the context of causality. For Nietzsche, it is decisive that the common-sense hypothesis constitutes a 'dominant sentiment from which we cannot liberate ourselves even if the scientific hypothesis were demonstrated.' But the identification of willing with living, the notion that our urge to live and our will to will are ultimately the same, has other, and perhaps more serious consequences for Nietzsche's concept of power.

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Willing

James Wines, Model of Physics-Astronomy Plaza, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1971

Francis Bacon on his roof at 80 Narrow Street, March, 1972 by Peter Beard

Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly… It would be poor psychology to assume that exclusion arouses only hate and resentment; it arouses too a possessive, intolerant kind of love, and those whom repressive culture has held at a distance can easily enough become its most diehard defenders.

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia

Julio Le Parc
Primeras modulaciones 2
2018