>>3799903I have downloaded it and this is from first chapter. I don't understand it fully but the bits I understand sounds interesting.
What is Seen In a Photo?
The Philosopher As The Self Portrait Of Photographer
>All, the All itself, would have begun with a flash, the lightning-bolt of the One not so much illuminating a World that was already there, as making it surge forth as the figure of those things that its fulguration would have forever outlined for the West. Such is the philo- sophical legend ofthe originary flash, of the birth of the World, a legend of the birth of philosophy in the spirit of photography. Philosophy announces that the Cosmos is a 'shot', and announces itself as this creative shot of the World. Heraclitus' child at play would, in the end, have been nothing but a photographer. And not just any photographer: a 'transcendental' photographer, since in photographing the world, he produces it; but a photog- rapher with no camera, and perhaps for that very reason destined ceaselessly to take new shots of that first flash - consigned to extinction - constrained thus to comment interminably on that first shot by taking yet more, ro engage himself in a ulllimited-becoming-photographic - so as to verify that the flash, the World, the flash of the World - that is to say, philosophy - really has taken place, and was not just a trick of the senses. 
