Crafters of the Beauty of Life Itself

Discovered at La Central del Raval in Barcelona. A Grady b-day present.

Bibliographic Deets
Gabilondo, Ángel 2010. "Artesanos de la Bellaza de la Propia Vida" Lecture given April 24, 2006. Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barclona, Barcelona.

Content
In which Ángel exhorts the living of a life that is worthy of the miracle of life.


 * "Montaigne was right: the world is ailing and I am with him in believing that it is, especially because we are lacking in friendship and communication" (37)


 * "My allegiance is to the connection between logos and bios ... the close bond that is so radical between living and saying." (38)


 * "Caring for the word is indispensable as a way of looking after life, to the point that taking care of the word is taking care of justice" (39)


 * "Everything has become stripped of values. Yet the value of which I wish to speak here is the value of living, making a work of art or our life, giving beauty to our own life." (42)


 * "Here, I acclaiming the possibility that we should be the artificers of of our beauty and not mere artefacts." (42)


 * "An artefact seems to be something that is consumed, finished, and I don't know have any desire to be finalised..." (43)


 * "Artificer" -> "Craftsman of the beauty of my own life" (43)


 * "Now 'touching something with an idea' is really difficult because the only place in which a thing and an idea meet is the word..."