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islands are the world models in the world
To philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, society has become—or perhaps always was—a collection of interconnected bubbles. They are the primary mode of being in our modern technological society. They represent the individual’s own personal spatial world, a world that is always both connected to and isolated from those around it. Bubbles exist in a state of co-isolation. All of us: isolated, trapped, surrounded. Much like the desert island.
Islands represented worlds-to-be-made. Isolated worlds that existed inside the world.
Islands have served as coffins for the heretics who dared to defy the Gods. They were the salty graves that housed the memories of immortals who failed to take heaven. But also islands have an interesting dualistic quality. As well as these morbid, destructive elements, they have also been seen as lands of fertility and creation. The volcanic birth of an island from the sea bed is a wonder that was immortalised in the mythological consciousness through the birth of Aphrodite from the foams of the sea on Crete
Deleuze Desert Islands
Literature is the attempt to interpret, in an ingenious way, the myths we no longer understand, at the moment we no longer understand them, since we no longer know how to dream them or reproduce them … We have to get back to the movement of the imagination that makes the deserted island a model, a prototype of the collective soul. First, it is true that from the deserted island it is not creation but re-creation, not the beginning but a re-beginning that takes place. The deserted island is the origin, but a second origin. From it everything begins anew. … The second origin is thus more essential than the first, since it gives us the law of repetition, the law of the series, whose first origin gave us only moments. But this theme, even more than in our fantasies, finds expression in every mythology (Desert Islands, 12-13).
Continental islands are accidental, derived islands. They are separated from a continent, born of disarticulation, erosion, fracture; they survive the absorption of what once contained them.
Oceanic islands are originary, essential islands. Some are formed from coral reefs and display a genuine organism. Others emerge from underwater eruptions, bringing to the light of day a movement from the lowest depths