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Issue 2 correspondence: p.15 "Multi-Spatial Dialectics" 

Exact Research Winged By Intuition

Klee, Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art, 1928:
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. You can do a good deal without it, but not everything. Where intuition is combined with exact research it speeds up the progress of research.

From the Pedagogical Sketchbook, 1953:

Exactitude winged by intuition is at times best. But because exact research is exact research, it gets ahead even without intuition though perhaps not very quickly. In principle it can do without intuition. It can be logical; it can construct. It can build bridges boldly from one thing to another. It can maintain order in the midst of turmoil.

Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X, making a virtue of necessity.  All this is fine but it has its limits: intuition remains indispensable. We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. 

Many things are free without showing it; others are free only in a very limited sense but present a free appearance in the freedom of this gesture.

Klee: Man is half a prisoner, half borne the halves on wings. Each of perceives the tragedy of his halfness through awareness of his "opponent". He keeps breaking his arms and legs, but that does not prevent him from clinging to his idea of flight.

Cassirer: The great mission of the Utopia is to make room for the possible as opposed to a passive acquiescence in the present actual state of affairs.

Ernst Bloch, Dialectics and Hope:
Dialectics, in the world made by mankind, is the relationship of subject and object, nothing else; it is subjectivity working its way forward, again and again overtaking the objectivation and objectivity it has attained, and seeking to explode them.

In the final analysis, the needy subject, by finding itself and its work inadequately objectified, is always the motor of historically appearing contradictions. It is the intensive motor which is set into motion as a consequence of the inadequacy of the achieved form of existence, and which, by contradicting the contradiction within the thing itself, activates in a revolutionary way the contradiction stemming from the inadequacy of these forms to the totum of the subject's content.

For if unfulfilled need is the motive and motor of the dialectical-material motion, then - ( he basis of the same, not yet present content the totality of the not present All (Alles) is its cohering goal. Further: omnia sub luna caduca, everything beneath the moon is perishable (likewise above the moon): however, this perishability, this barrier and finiteness, presupposes the non-resigning desire of a subject as well as a real not yet frozen possibility in the world in order even to appear as a barrier, much less a superable one. The point has not yet been reached where society can go no further, where an "in vain" would be conferred upon history. (Translated by Mark Ritter)

A flat engine is a piston engine where the cylinders are located on either side of a central crankshaft. Flat engines are also known as horizontally opposed engines

The advantages of flat engines are a short length, low centre of mass and suitability for air cooling (due to the well-exposed, large-surface-area cylinders and cylinder heads, and their short length). 

Compared with the more common straight engines, flat engines have better primary balance (resulting in less vibration).

Benjamin: Being a dialectician means having the wind of history in one's sails. The sails are the concepts. It is not enough, however, to have sails at one's disposal.
What is decisive is knowing the art of setting them.