우리는 빛 속에서 그림자를 발견한다. We claim certainty. We rehearse doubt. The page you are reading believes itself.
그림자 속에서 우리는 빛을 추적한다. We rehearse doubt. We claim certainty. The page you are reading distrusts itself.
자유는 형식 속에서만 존재한다. Without rules, choice has no shape. The empty room is not free — it is merely empty. Constraint is the silhouette that allows movement to be seen.
형식은 자유를 가둔다. Every rule excludes a possibility. The room with rules is the room you cannot leave. The shape that allows motion is the shape that limits it.
무엇이든 뚫는 창. It pierces what cannot be pierced. By definition: nothing resists it. By definition: it has never been stopped, and it never will.
무엇도 뚫지 못하는 방패. Nothing pierces it. By definition: it resists everything. By definition: it has never failed, and it never will.
변화만이 변하지 않는다. Heraclitus stepped into a river twice and found two rivers. The world refuses to stand still long enough to be photographed.
불변만이 새롭다. Parmenides stepped into nothing, because nothing moves, because motion is illusion. What we call change is the eye blinking on a still image.
나는 거짓말을 하고 있다. If true, then false. If false, then true. The sentence eats its tail. Read it again: it has not changed and yet you are no longer who you were.
너는 사실을 말하고 있다. Belief, once granted, cannot be refunded. The listener has already accepted the contradiction. Doubt arrives late, after the fact has settled.
that contradictions are the structural beams of thought. That to refuse a paradox is to refuse to think clearly about anything that matters. That every clean answer is a question wearing a costume.
— signed, the editorial board
our own belief. We suspect this manifesto. We notice that "we believe in contradictions" is a non-contradictory belief, which is itself a contradiction we have not yet named.
— unsigned, the same board
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제출하라. We accept contradictions in any language, any length, any moral temperature. The editorial board reads everything. The editorial board agrees with nothing.
thesis@mosoon.org →침묵하라. The unsubmitted contradiction is the loudest. Silence is itself a position. The board reads what is not sent with great attention.
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