The Singularity of Being Quotes

“Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is not our ability to evade chaos, but rather our capacity to meet it in such a manner as to not be irrevocably broken or demolished.”
― Mari Ruti, The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within

“Ethical consistency, then, is a matter of persisting, of persevering beyond one's normal perseverance, even when one is no longer sure of one's direction, when one no longer feels excited about the investment one has made, when the outlines of the event are no longer obvious, and when one can no longer be sure that the truth the event names is not, in actuality, a simulacrum. The injunction to keep going demands the subject's self-sacrificing devotion to its goal even when the cost of this devotion is its own well-being, and even when it feels besieged by forces of corruption, exhaustion, and distraction. The moment the subject betrays its fidelity, it is no longer a subject, but reverts to being a mortal "someone" who rates her "situation" to be more important than truth.”
― Mari Ruti, The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within