Month: December 2018

JOTTINGS

4.12.18
– Lo-fi
– Crucifix – (the voluntarily/actively) suffering man, as the Christ – the divine savior of the world!
5.12.18
– bangers
– anyhow
trestle
bier
doorkeeper
pinstripes
padre
hearse
concertina’d
factotum
Heat haze
Old boy
Patent leather
dapper
braided
tobacconist
lading
hors d’oeuvre
draggled
6.12.18
– Compare & contrast:
Boys Vs. Men
&
Girls vs. Women
– Moor
Berber
Black Pete
embargo
Jolt of delight
Pride of reverse order
– What if the traditional idea of GOD is the greatest “graven image” in history?!
And how is humanism too a form of idolatry?
– Distinguish:
Man
&
Male
– Authentic ~ creative ~ original ~ unique ~ unusual ~ peculiar ~ abnormal ~ evil
So be it!
– Imagine – different AND equal!
– Theomorphism (man created in the divine image) ~ anthropomorphism (GOD as human creation)
– Modifying the non-negotiable obligations of (my) religious belief…!
7.12.18
– wharf
jiffy
sandbag
Cricket – jaffa/corker
oilcloth
palings
dungaree
– Movies:
“अन्धाधुन”
My parking – P1 (floor) F8 (pillar)
Theater of the absurd!
The final wisdom – Ha ha ha ha! 😂 👏🏽
Blind chance/fate/God rules!
Sadean style ~ ride the waves of Nature
The cockroach outlives the dinosaur……
Compare the last scene with the blind song in Mysskin
Also contrast with the blindfolded Lady Justice
8.12.18
– malobserved
pannikin
de trop
titter
9.12.18
– lectern
soapbox
Natural languages
Generative rules
Universal grammar – UG
I-language
E-language
Species property
Subsystem
Innatism
Idiosyncratic dialect
Interlanguage
Distinguish language & knowledge
Distinguish cause & evoke
Unteachable abilities
Principles & parameters
Approximate systems
Deep structure(s)
Communicative competence
technocrats
10.12.18
– Lyric video
Ray Donovan (Season 1)
12.12.18
– Distinguish:
Enquiry/request,
Complaint/grievance
&
Suggestion/feedback
13.12.18
– Baudelairian system of contradictions
alexandrine
rapacity, voracity
casuistical
The sacred, even divine, right, to contradict oneself!
Insuperable laziness
Vile wastefulness
Outrageously unpredictable
Tense division and controlled complexity
Subterranean laws & dark forces
The spleen and the ideal
Paradox and dialectic
– Reverse voyeurism
– palter
Famous criminal
execrate
– Readings:
“The Stranger” – novel by Albert Camus
Distinguish:
Absurdism
&
Nihilism
The influential underground
The Outsider
Communism
Vs.
Fascism
Banality & awakening
Metaphysical indifference, individual freedom and political revolt
overpopular
Liberal Vs. Revolutionary
Camus Vs. Sartre
Capitalism Vs. Communism Vs. Libertarianism
Distinguish libertarianism & anarchism
Counter-terrorist violence
Soft-pedaling middle position
Confession as oblique attack
Publishing an unfinished work
Distinguish unity & totality
14.12.18
– vitiate
Anti-Enlightenment thinker
baroque
Authentic anti-persons

NOTES

21.11.18
– Perverse philosophy – the practice of vice as a (or the) path to truth!
Classy fucker
– Health/ease & longevity
Vs.
Pleasure/passion & death
  • The Bitcoin bubble – I buy cryptocurrency as an ethical future option, not to grow my money now. And I don’t invest in forex, because it seems unethical to gain from unjust global financial policies.
  • The Diabetes epidemic
The Pilgrim Creed and the Thanksgiving story
William Bradford & Stephen Hopkins – saints & strangers
Massasoit, Wampanoag
fixings
Spiritual ancestors & national rites
Quaint – attractively unusual
blunderbuss
muzzle
– My fantasy of (receiving) unconditional acceptance & aggressive support remains as such……! 😥😡😅
– demisexual
pj
Black vision
22.11.18
– The refutation of optimism & the meaning of perversity
Harm to moral self & imp(r)udent preference-formation
Nature & the void
Luck & transgression
Hedonism & identity in psychology
The parody of inversion & educating vice
The mature as the free
The utopian theater of pain & pleasure
The falsification of phallocracy
Deliberately repetitive style
The ambiguity and grammar of violence
Surface goodness and deep sensation
Sade through the looking glass – Dealing with filthy things
Virtue and control
Dismayed audiences
Enlightenment via engaging the worthless
Difficult subject with paradoxical themes
Analyzing with great care & skill
Liberated from shame
Neither directly visible nor readily thinkable
Forced to face the disgusting/forbidden
Black, clandestine & censored
A systematic study of evil & madness
Enigmatic privacy
Weakness of the will Vs. self-deception Vs. Wicked planning
Truth, in the jungle of nausea & terror
Science Vs. ontology Vs. the artist
Inside-out deformation
The complex procedures of debauchery
Nature as enemy
Transcendence within the shattered limits
The cruel friendship of enlightened heroes
Intellectual foreplay before spiritual intercourse
Buried under the ruins of values
Sadean fellowship
Nightmarish pleasures
Sadean anti-humanism – Mobius strip – one-sided & unique
Theory of action
Inconsistent pedant
akrasia
The celebration of embarrassment
Rhetorical methods of coping
Institutionalized coercion
Patriotic crimes
Legends of duty
Assumptions of a good cause
Dreams of camaraderie
Condemn and correct the pervert
Biography as camouflage
Barthes’s Sade
Fiction as a philosophical tool
Metaphor as argument
The fear of what we might be
Penetrating power
Potential castration
– Conceived in lust
– “L.I.M.P.
Say it
Discover” – The Who
23.11.18
– Poe-perversion
The creativity of the wicked will
Distinguish brutishness/perversion & vice/wickedness
Pathological aberrations
Proto-Kantian counter-ethics
Supererogatory action
Moral perversity
Spiritual hooliganism
Decision situation
ideograph
– “Memories of Underdevelopment”
24.11.18
– Don’t buy clothes, furniture, etc. online
– Chrome – if it’s not working properly in certain secure/signed-in websites, use incognito mode
– Stimulating > pleasurable
Distinguish negligence & akrasia
Enjoyment as the only indisputable & universal value
Reasonable idolatry
Distinguish narcissism & solipsism
Stratify – metaphysical, moral & psychological
Super-Id
Desiring destruction
Heart advice
Harmonizing desire & intention
– Can one emphasize both survival & transformation equally, without contradicting oneself?
No.
I’m anti-life, but not pro-death……!?
But what does that mean??
The exploration of the forbidden is worth the risk of injury/damage.
– The Big Questions of humans will remain unsolved mysteries forever, and that is good news!
– Hero > saint
I.e. Not all heroes are saints.
Are all saints heroes?
A truly great person is one who redefines the very notion of greatness.
– Incessant pleasure/ease is also boring.
So……?
– I feel fine now.
At peace.
I’m slowly figuring out certain things that seemed to be too complicated/opaque……! 😎
– Distinguish:
(Sado-)masochistic
&
Suicidal
25.11.18
– Christ, the eucharistic king – the one who rules, by being broken & consumed……!
You ask, “Does GOD exist?”, but are YOU present to Christ??
– Distinguish:
Sadistic
&
Sadean
– Rehabilitating (the right to) narcissism
Fantasies of self-return
Auto-affection & hetero-affection
Unconscious thought
Adventures in self-love
Medicalized discourse
Metaphysical violence
Deconstructing notions
ipseity
Originary narcissism and the structures of life
The I-pole of the social-biological self
Cartesian egology
Pragmatism Vs. Phenomenology
Natural, premoral state
Mechanical prudence
Society ~ inequality
Right to regard
Species pride
Public esteem – cooperation vs. competition – vanity-contempt/shame-envy
Cultural canary in the mine
Reconciling a right to self-love with sociality and justice
The double hatred of collective narcissism
Paranoid defensiveness
Insecurity –> persecuting hatred
The imagined common denominator
The exhausting & impossible task of sustaining the myth of purity
Self-possession as (mere) positioning
“Desire for the One,” “unitary utopia, ideal totalization”
The spherical trajectory of the specular/sovereign self
The cult of origin(s)
compeer/semblable
Fear of (the other’s) narcissism
The ego as private property
Self-suspicion & self-loathing
26.11.18
– Ostracism –> tolerance –> acceptance –> celebration
– Kannada Rajyotsava
Naraka Chaturdashi
Bali Padyami
Id Milad
Kanakadasa Jayanti
gazetted
Annual events
Urine cotinine test
– Neither bent on self-destruction nor playing it safe – enjoyment that pushes (all) boundaries……!
– misthink
BBMP & The Ugly Indians NGO
Feasibility study
Stop celebrity news updates
UEFA Nations League
Quid pro quo
Reverse dictionary ~ crossword solver
– “My heart is ready, O God! My heart is ready!”
I didn’t know that this line from the movie “The Passion of the Christ” is taken from Psalms (57:7)…
With certain recent changes in me (Stirner, Sade, etc.), I also need to/can say this (just before the official chastisement begins)!
27.11.18
– The im-possible
Nature ~ pleasure ~ void
Causal consequences & intentional results
turd
Orgiastic destruction & self-transcendence
coprophilia
Sade Vs. Hobbes
Scavenger >> avenger >> predator
28.11.18
– Distinguish:
The biological drive for food, shelter & sex
and
The cultural imperative to survive at all costs
– I need a relationship based on pure lust!
29.11.18
– Embracing determinism is the most radical freedom! 🤩
– demi-monde
flaneur
debauchee
– Distinguish:
Incontinence
&
Indulgence
– What’s the difference between someone like Hitler and someone like Sade?
– Humanity (consciousness & culture) as Nature’s self-alienation……!
– Life – neither survival nor suicide!
Hmmm…… but then, what else……??
– Which is more tragic/pathetic:
To destroy one’s worldly self because one refuses to come out of the abyss within,
Or to survive in the world by successfully repressing one’s own Id/shadow?
1.12.18
– Passionate anal-ysis
French artiste
coup d’etat
quay
XCIC
Jeanne Duval
Prose poems
mulatto
Jansenist
Satan, the dandy!
Revolutionary Vs. Rebel
poétes maudits
physiquement dépolitiqué
conseil judiciaire
2.12.18
– Hotstar: CinePlay – Stage On Screen
– Films:
“प्यासा”
Is it a tragedy or a comedy or a…?
“Pink”
Female as female
Vs.
Female according to male (perspective/preference)
Male as male
Vs.
Male according to female (perspective/preference)
Cultural norms Vs. Biological facts
3.12.18
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– ALL destruction is creative!