constellation

north star

North

space

Orion's Belt

one-liner

astrology

anatomy

vagina

female body

battle of the sexes

being bad in bed

is simply 'ideas', which he sees as purely mental, totally immaterial, unable to be communicated or communicated to.

The monad for Benjamin is the idea, the pure idea, or ideas that form what he calls 'constellations'. Here ideas are purely mental, purely geistlich, they are totally immaterial. They cannot be communicated to, nor can they communicate. Ideas and God for Benjamin are pure intensity. But whereas the monad is at centre stage for Leibniz, for Benjamin at centre stage is language' (Lash Intensive Culture 1).

A constellation is a village where stars live.

is a thing first invented by men who were storytellers. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

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constellation