Cybersecurity (from Avast)
Month: September 2017
Superman, suicide counselor
(Referred by Ishvar Mohan)
Hmmm… well done, (super)man!
But not quite up to the (my) mark.
I would rather use a different argument than the “chance for one more happy day”. Because all the bad times you need to go through for one good day, would make one (like me) hesitate to pay such a high price, for such a small prize……
The whole point of life is to “push back against the darkness”, as he himself says previously. That is a better approach, according to me. It puts the onus on the individual’s conatus, and ignites it by challenging it to rise to the occasion! Throw down the gauntlet (to live, against all odds – to refuse to give up, or succumb to false hopes), rather than dangle a questionable future. For some (like me), the desire to fight & win (the existential battle) is greater than to just receive & enjoy (what is given by luck/fate/GOD)……
So, if I was in Felicity’s place, the latter approach would be more effective at dissuading me from ending it all.
Hindu Theology
Kanchi Sankaracharya confesses to, & justifies, murder…!
RANTINGS
2.9.17
– erasure
consul
Adversity & nobility
Character as achievement
Achievement as pleasure
Parallel lives
The stories of gods
Inspiring > fascinating
Noble losers
Romulus & Theseus
Old school
Perils & rewards
Negative & positive freedoms
Discourses & meditations
Private person
– Passion + control = discipline
Punished, for laughing at tyranny
– What is the relationship between morality & law?
What do ethics & aesthetics have to do with each other?
How are metaphysics & politics related?
– “To study philosophy is to learn to die.” – Epictetus
Exclusively desiring the freedom of the will
“Is it harder for an emperor or a slave, to be free?”
– Outer freedom & inner slavery
Apparent slavery & real freedom
– A good ruler is subject to necessity.
– “To live everyday as if it were your last.”. – Marcus Aurelius
– Distinguish:
Famous
&
Great
– If this is not virtue, then what is??
– picketing
Twitter handle
“abhiyan”
“majlis”
Dera Sacha Sauda
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
Lookout notice
Progressive closure
Teacher training
Doklam
Road building
posturing
BRICS Plus
Limited conflict
Border war
China expert
NAFTA & TPP
augury
NEET
Cabinet reshuffle
Post-Harvey Texas
– UPI
BHIM
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.org.npci.upiapp
4.9.17
– Blue Whale (game)
3.9.17
– estuary
– Relational dynamics:
Direct/indirect & commission/omission
- Direct commission
- Direct omission
- Indirect commission
- Indirect omission
– Over
Over & out
4.9.17
– The pleasure of achievement and the achievement of pleasure
– Self-transformation ~ inward cultivation
– Sex (desire) + death (sacrifice) = life (ecstasy)!
– Thinking according to the world… toward a utopia of the real
To exit, without having entered
Philosophical desire/decision/delusion
Abandoning the site of the world
The identity of transformation
The horizon of presupposition/assumption/pretension/belief
Man in general ~ anthropological essence
The subject for the world
Transcendental hallucination/illusion
The world in-itself
The world as material for the auto-constitution of the subject
Subject-agency & site of production
An immanent practice against the exception of thought
Objectivist action
Pernicious mode of attachment to its object
Enunciation/enunciability/enunciated
Objectivation/objectivity/objectified
Unitary conflation of heterogeneous orders
Idealized practice & action upon the world
The anti-democratic nature of philosophy
Exemption ~ exaltation ~ legitimation
Auto-affection – philosophical contortion/somersault
Supplement of alterity & unity, relative to the other
Non-convertible unity & convertible duality
Quasi-dialectical games
Purely performative identity
Given, without an act of giving
The determined transcendental identity of thought & practice
Performation-in-the-last-instance
Performativity as linguistic form
Man-in-person as without-consistency
– My purpose/plan:
Contemplative lifestyle = maximum perfection + maximum enjoyment –> maximum impact!
Sculpt your body, Joe.
(And shape her life too)
5.9.17
– If & when I get to 500 followers for my blog, should I celebrate it as a milestone?
– Looking up from under the water of a cenote in Dos Ojos, Mexico
https://www.bing.com/az/hprichbg/rb/DosOjos_EN-AU11313156087_1366x768.jpg
– cenote
American Spanish
– International Phonetic Alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
– Solitude & creativity
Boredom & inspiration
Suffering & profundity
– The political failure and theoretical revival of Marxism
The victims of Marxism
General theory of victims
Double victimization
Reversibility/convertibility of victim and victimizer
Non-philosophy as communism/democracy “in thought”
Communism = democracy-of-the-last-instance
Labor power & force of thought
Communism is the generic constant of history
The metaphysics of science
Philosophy, science and Marxism
Scientific (falsifiability) and philosophical failure (Dedivinization)
The singularity of identity
The failure to circumscribe the real/human
Situation ~ conjuncture
The history of the term
Agent provocateur
Representation/model
Universal conjuncture
The politics of philosophy
The failure of Marxism (not the end of metaphysics) as the conjuncture of philosophy
Uni(-versal)
The irreducible human
The One as the singular
Thinking the human without recourse to (concepts like) being, otherness, etc.
Philosophy as capital ~ philosophical capitalism
Distinguish:
World
&
Globe
The global/circular/self-referential nature of philosophical thought
univocal
Productive failure
Non-philosophical mysticism
Authoritarian forms of thought
Anti-World
The persecuted
Philosophy’s foreclosure of man
Perspective of the victim
Subject-in-struggle, vision-in-one, man-in-man, stranger, radical solitude, the lived, ultimation, mutation, heresy, cloning, unision, radical vulnerability
Amorous method
Equipping immanent revolt outside of philosophy
Philosophy as the tyrannical/orthodox universe of meaning
Non-Christian science
One-in-one!
The immanent clones of Christ
The essence misused and obliterated by the agenda-laden narratives
A subject separate from the world, a subject out of time
Perpetually/ordinarily persecuted
Non-standard philosophical insistence
gnostic caste
Living-without-life
Thinking the absolute
The hermetic ordeal
Contemporary economic theory as modern iterations of archaic divination practices
“Keep your mind in hell and do not despair” – Hesychasm
Rigid distinction between ancient and future
Conceptual and practical materials
Mysticism of fusion/communion/reconciliation/synthesis
Vs.
Mysticism of/by separation
False mixtures
Hallucinatory modes of alienation and conformity
Their general identity, missed by always looking for a higher unity
Dualysis/unilateral duality – treatment of theoretical admixture
The foreclosure (unknowability) of the one is axiomatic
Non-one
Triadic construal of unity as symptomatic of the failure to think from the real one
Liberate abstraction from its totalizing/englobing function
Identities are too generic to be captured by conceptualization – cannot be identified
Christo-fiction/mystical discourse
Identities are not essences – conditions for possible activity or expression
An unlearned knowledge
Vs.
A learned ignorance
The one is each, but each is not the one
The human real as cause of the mystical posture
Immediate ~ non-dialectical
All of human reality is already corrupted by the World
The World is the philosophical ordering of reality
Sacrificial reality & processes of distortion, generalization & subordination
Philosophy as the transcendental language that justifies the form of the world
A justification of reality to the real
The unbearable human real (as foreclosed to the one) is the cause of philosophy
All acts of philosophy are conscripted in advance by this auto-immune mode of explanation
Fictionalizing/cloning the one
Unfolding/differentiation
Only humans, no humanity
Distinguish genericity and particularity
Symptoms of the hallucinatory sufficiency of the world/God-the-world/Hell
one-ing
Salvation is in & for Hell
System of conformity
The neutralization of identity is the conformism of the world
The politics of Hell
Primacy of last identity
Thought as immanent retro-action
The real is future by thought
Distinguish abstraction & speculation
Distinguish anteriority and primacy
glyph
grapheme
Future anterior
Rewriting the past
Phantasmatic rendering of the trauma
Psychoanalysis – retroactive symbolic restructuring of the imaginary
God in Christ ~ pre-eminence of Christ ~ the real in all things
Eternal insistence/radical lived
Creating Vs. Identifying
Dismember & remember
Becoming the redeemed-in-person
Persistence of the past
Gnosis of the resurrected body
The real one of generic identities
Denial of the sufficiency of biology
The newborn
Distinguish cause & occasion
Born without birth
Heretical/persecuted or conforming/complicit
Cloning as an act of mystical fiction
Human in-past
Neither in or of, but for, the world
From rejects (of the world), to ejectors (from the one)
The consumptumation (consumption + consummation) of Hell
Organon for construction
The end-game of future Christs
Self-relation/personal reminiscences
The stranger never identifies herself
Platonic re-encircling of identity
Forgetting of false continuity
Theodicy as the default mode of worldly thought – justification of the status quo
A radically novel access to the in-past – the remembered without memory
The remembered non-essence more profound than all essence
Experimental experience/experiential experiment of radical simplicity
Hesychasm & Hesychia
Special poverty
Making-do-without
Making-do-with-the-Hellgod
– Do I wish myself for Teacher’s Day?!
– The discipline of indulgence
The spiritual as opposed to the social
– Distinguish:
Financial,
Economic,
Material &
Physical
– excelsior
– http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/celebrating-spirit-teachers-day/
Today is also:
– International Day of Charity – Mother Teresa (Saint of Calcutta)
– Robert Farrar Capon’s death
– Editorial Articles app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blacktooth.editorialsopinionindia
6.9.17
– The transcendental, but determined, identity of thought & practice
Withdrawal from the exception of philosophy
Philosophical reality & intervention
Judgments of perception & judgments of experience
Philosophy-in-person
Things of the world
Form of the world
Intermediary schema
Regional forms of knowledge
Identification/confusion/sublation
Transcendentals as absolute metaphors for experience
Surplus value of meaning
Representational modality
The transcendental as the transformed empirical
Cloning as reduced philosophy
Gaining simplicity/minimality
Radical identity ~ unilateral duality
Identity as desired
Vs.
Identity as performed
Non-unity, not meta-unity
Practical gain at the level of theory
Explanation of philosophy
Reciprocal determination of thought and the real
Suspension of the philosophical postulate
Interpretation Vs. Transformation
Understanding Vs. Theorizing
Philosophy as global overview/contemplation
Auto-specular
Philosophical functions like hermeneutics, deconstruction & dialectics
Representations & determinations
The jurisdiction of philosophical tradition
Reducing philosophical representations to inert raw material for non-philosophical construction
Unrepresentable agency or instance
Transcendental recursion
Non-philosophical condition of combination/mixture
Philosophical operations – division, prioritization, analysis & synthesis
Science & art subsumed by philosophy
Distinguish transcendental & idealist
The “other than” dimension of the real
Ontological hierarchy
A transcendental practice
The world for itself
Soliciting the real
Being-given-in-the-real
Immanent practice as radically heterogenous to all representation
Distinguish:
A priori form of the world (the transcendental)
&
World-object as sufficient reality (absolute representation)
Philosophy & man are reciprocally convertible
A circular, dual, unitary, encompassing, exclusive, infinitely nuanced definition
Man’s non-philosophical essence
Liberating thought from philosophy
The politics of philosophical subjection
Man-in-man or in-man – a posited axiom
Leaving behind the aporias of philosophical difference
The naïve intuitive horizon of philosophy – the world of representations or metaphysical objects
Distinguish the real, in-man & subject
Man, without essence/consistency – dispossessed of substance as well as nothingness
No scalability!
The in-man is radically autonomous because man can only be found in-man rather than in philosophy or the world.
The subject is the indivisible clone produced on the basis of the world under the influence of the in-man.
The subject registers the minimum of relationality that philosophy imposes upon the in-man, but it is also the clone-form that the latter imposes upon philosophy.
The subject & in-man are identical in-the-last-instance. The subject is determined-in-the-last-instance by the in-man.
The asymmetrical cooperation of distinct roles, without juxtaposition
Primary ultimation
Philosophy as the realm of objects that is the universal & necessary form of the world
Humans are without-philosophy
Subjects-for-philosophy/world
The real-transcendental indifference & the appropriation of philosophy (stripped of its sufficiency)
The poor in spirit/essence/philosophy
Auto-pragmatics
Self-positing in a nihilist mode ~ self-repudiation
Utopian/uchronic force
The world as such
&
The world in itself
Relating to the world, not as an entity, and without the knowledge of (its) existence!
– Without the ecstasy of exhaustion, you reach the exhaustion of ecstasy!
7.9.17
– reveries
non-relation
Cinematic presence
Narrating life
Vs.
Living
Story as abstraction
Narration & discontinuity
Metanarrative – the human struggle to create consistency & coherence
Cosmic destruction & potential redemption
The perfectly ordinary & ultimately insurmountable senselessness/enigma of human existence
Affirming life, without pretension
Striking parallels
No development in the human essence
Living-without-life
Nuancing/softening an outlandish statement
The human, is neither “thrown”, “remaining”, “to come” or “undead”, but present-as-persecuted
Not being-in-the-world, but subject-for-the-world
The human & the world are not distinct in relation, but different by separation
The non-historical human
Neither world-historical, deconstructive, critical or clinical
the-World
The temporal process of arriving/World-agenda
Vs.
Life-in-the-last-instance or Future Christ
Past without passing
The despised & rejected (corner)stone
laconic
Existence out-of-time
Utterly ordinary & perpetual persecution
Excluded, harassed, betrayed & murdered by the temporality of this passing World
An ultimatum always already here
Neither the radical passivity of the abject nor the radical activity of the revolutionary
The distinctive mark of continuous revolt against the World, whose most basic form of violence is to relate or correlate every need, concern or struggle to the needs, concerns or struggles in-the-World
The human struggle is a struggle precisely because it is separate from the struggle of the World
Axiomatic operation
the-philosophy
Writ large
Multiple iterations
Setting-into-relation
Order of discourse
Vs.
Ordering by the Real
Disintering mixtures of relatively transcendent with relatively immanent terms
– My occupation:
Unemployed!
7.9.17
– Traffic rider – eyes on the road & mind on the route
– Distinguish: (from Apple Music)
Essentials,
Deep cuts &
Next steps
– Eagle:
Alternate between flying (climb using its wings) and gliding (circle using the wind)
– Audience to artist:
Praise YOU for who you are!
Artist to audience:
THANK you for recognizing who I am!
8.9.17
– reveries
non-relation
Cinematic presence
Narrating life
Vs.
Living
Story as abstraction
Narration & discontinuity
Metanarrative – the human struggle to create consistency & coherence
Cosmic destruction & potential redemption
The perfectly ordinary & ultimately insurmountable senselessness/enigma of human existence
Affirming life, without pretension
Striking parallels
No development in the human essence
Living-without-life
Nuancing/softening an outlandish statement
The human, is neither “thrown”, “remaining”, “to come” or “undead”, but present-as-persecuted
Not being-in-the-world, but subject-for-the-world
The human & the world are not distinct in relation, but different by separation
The non-historical human
Neither world-historical, deconstructive, critical or clinical
the-World
The temporal process of arriving/World-agenda
Vs.
Life-in-the-last-instance or Future Christ
Past without passing
The despised & rejected (corner)stone
laconic
Existence out-of-time
Utterly ordinary & perpetual persecution
Excluded, harassed, betrayed & murdered by the temporality of this passing World
An ultimatum always already here
Neither the radical passivity of the abject nor the radical activity of the revolutionary
The distinctive mark of continuous revolt against the World, whose most basic form of violence is to relate or correlate every need, concern or struggle to the needs, concerns or struggles in-the-World
The human struggle is a struggle precisely because it is separate from the struggle of the World
Axiomatic operation
the-philosophy
Writ large
Multiple iterations
Setting-into-relation
– My occupation:
Unemployed!?
– General theory of victims
Non-standard philosophy
Interdisciplinarity and quantum theory
Intellectuals ~ philosophers
Com-passion
Unilateralizing suffering
Human-without-humanism
Injustice ~ victimization
Identification & solidarity
Non-human fellow-fiction
Generic science
– Laruelle in Translation Seminar series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyNY0B8w6w
– Humanimality
9.9.17
– Movies:
“Phoenix” (2015)
Compare with “General Theory of Victims”!
– Video essay
– TV Series:
Ray Donovan (Season 1 Episode 1)
10.9.17
– Gauri Lankesh Patrike
Anne-Francois Schmid
Philo-fiction
– Common sense AND uncommon knowledge
11.9.17
– tautological/apodictic
– The Logos as meta-language
Pure existence; being as such
Grammar review (from Elevate brain-game)
My Wunderlist
WEEKLY CHECKLIST
❏ 1/2 hour chat with family
❏ 1/2 hour chat with friends
❏ 1/2 hour devotions with Chellam
❏ 1/2 hour learning with Chellam
❏ Word/verse/quote/weather
❏ Brain games 2
❏ Brain games 1
❏ Yoga
❏ 1/2 hour meditation
❏ 1/2 hour mindfulness
❏ Walking/jogging
❏ Skipping
❏ Floor exercise 2
❏ Floor exercise 1
❏ 1 hour news
❏ 1 hour self-help
❏ 1 hour random learning
❏ 1 hour prescribed reading
❏ 1 hour Bible
❏ 1 hour TV
❏ 1 hour naughty/monkey business
❏ Sex
❏ Eat-out
❏ 2 hours serial/movie
A teacher’s tribute to his (living) mentors!
Is Francois Laruelle on Twitter?? 😉
Also, don’t forget Saraswathi/Sublimewe…!
VIGNETTES
23.8.17
– Tree of life ~ body wisdom
Tree of knowledge of good & evil ~ intellectual intelligence
The difference between life and death lies in the order in which you eat them!
– Love potion
Didactic poetry
atomism
Chance ~ fate
Meta-passion
Materialism ~ determinism
Rare beauties
Intelligible substratum
limpidity
eclogue
Peasant poet
Greek ethics
Vs.
Roman virtues
Unforgettable word pictures
sonorous
Acquired tastes
Sad obligations
Vacationing
Character adventures
Indulgence, cruelty & madness
Political vacuum
Best, true fables
– Passion
Vs.
Duty
Vs.
?
– “The tears in things” – Virgil
“We crave a different kind of buzz” – Lorde
– War, starvation & epidemic in Yemen. Would you like to go/be there??
Trump protesters, wherever his campaign goes.
Turkey is against the Kurdish referendum in Iraq.
Tamil Nadu politics – OPS & EPS of AIADMK join hands, for now.
Is Princess Diana still worth remembering?
Nigeria’s population bomb
– Between Sophistry & Silence
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/between-sophistry-and-silence/article19535457.ece
– There’s no shame in coming second to Homer!
– What is the effect of tyranny on the tyrant?
24.8.17
– All or nothing
Vs.
Something is better than nothing
– Power + pleasure + meaning = religion!
– Restlessness is welcome.
Accept frustration.
Stay with the boredom.
Get to the bottom of the emptiness.
– “Meditation is evil.” – UGK
– Hindu Theater Festival – 20.8.17
“Black with Equal”
Stupid, silly & irritating!
Just flirting with life, no real wrestling.
A good comedy is a rare beauty indeed!
– Get what you need by doing what is right
Vs.
Going after what you want and losing everything
WTF??
– The philosophical invariant of combination
Association without mediation
Operational space
Transcendental identity/essence of the subject
First science
The general convertibility of the realms/orders
Order of reality & order of syntax
Non-consistency of the subject-in-person
The non-representative causality of determination-in-the-last-instance
The real as non-agency or non-realm
Cloning of philosophical transcendence
Radical immanence as “other than”
Exists-(as-a)-Stranger
Future-in-person
Utopia-in-person
Site of production
Radical displacement of the site of transformation
Thinking (relating to things) according to the real
Inconsistent subject
System of transcendental hallucination & illusion
Subject for the world
Auto-positional/self-encompassing structure
Intra-philosophical transformations
The world in-itself
Philosophy as the (form of the) world
Interpretation as intervention
Operational transcendence
Philosophical delusion
Reduced or delivered from sufficiency
Determined-according-to
24.8.17
– Courting life ~ flirting with death
Or
Flirting with life ~ Courting death
– Sadeness by Enigma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw
– Saying YES! to your Weirdness | JP Sears | TEDxCardiffbytheSea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79zra755WgA
29.8.17
– Distinguish:
Whose
&
Who’s
– “Spirituality is not to be learned by running away from things of the world, nor by turning solitary. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
— Meister Eckhart
Distinguish:
Solitude/penetration
&
Isolation/withdrawal
If you can’t find GOD in the here & now, you need not search elsewhere!
– Mudra
involution/intricacy
fishgig/lance
magpie
horologist
chiromancer
viticulture
enology
– “Yahweh is the one going before you; he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.””
Distinguish:
Do not be……
&
You shall not be……
Is this just positive confession for self-development, or is there more to it (than meets my ear)?
Compare versions:
LEB
&
NET
– Enslaved by, the fear of, fear!
– Mk. 6:17-29
Ego/image > conscience/will
The babe is just a nameless (& gorgeous) pawn.
Did Herod & Herodias “love” each other?
Is the king truly free??
The passion of St. John the Baptist
Is speaking truth to power, a special calling, only for the rare prophet among us?
– The Bible:
Meditative study/devotional scholarship
&
Studious meditation/scholarly devotion
Tim Mackie – nerdy disciple
Exploring my strange Bible
https://itunes.apple.com/in/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible/id1271147429?mt=2&i=390967319
28.8.17
– (Y)earning
– Purpose, practicalities & play
Grounded in the body
In touch with the inner and outer worlds
Intellect, emotion & body aligned
Mindful breathing for body scan
Energetics out of whack
Getting to the bottom of the trophy process
Body focus
Sensitivity training
30.8.17
– burlap
cashmere
1.9.17
– Machine learning
Psychocybernetics
Gaming (&) intelligence
erotism
– TV series (Season 1 Episode 1 only!)
Mr. Robot
The Night Manager
American Gods
Halt & Catch Fire
The Leftovers
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Badlands
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