22.1.19
– moozadell
Self-imposed slavery
Fruitful catastrophe
Deities ~ demons ~ spirits ~ forces ~ elements
Dreams ~ myths ~ art ~ religion
Collective fantasies
Unconscious knowledges
The body as representational platform
God only knows why!
Mystery ~ imagination ~ belief ~ ritual – in between chaos/unknown and order/known
Social/historical philosophy
Common law and the body politic
Leadership principles ~ divine attributes
Panic >> freeze >> fight or flee response
chattel
Pimps & pushers
looker
Boooyah!
photojournalist
asepticism
Swan song
– Noam Chomsky ~ Jordan Peterson
Vs.
Michel Foucault ~ Slavoj Zizek
– The person as a legion/horde!
Being a stranger to oneself
– Distinguish:
Illiterate
&
Stupid
– How long can one die?!
– Can a fundamentalist be an intellectual, and vice-versa?
– “Learning/growth = theory + experience + practice.
In the case of your career – doing a course in Education (theory) + teaching/guiding (experience) + research in Education (practice)” >> Chellam
23.1.19
– Body-memory
– Negative identity
Distinguish void & nothingness
Good & bad dualism
The uncounted or non-representable – all that is not!
Meontology
The other being & the other-than-being
Null set
Pure proper name
Univocity, equivocity & unicity
Auto-declaration; self-reference
Almost-being & be-coming
The Deleuzian virtual & Badiouian void
Grounding process
Infinities
ouns
gunrest
untonsured
prelate
jowl
imbroglio
downbeat
funk
25.1.19
– Sensory deprivation as entheogen
Sun-glare in ODI during India tour of NZ
Tor browser
– Movies:
“Pity” (Greek)
I can watch stuff like this only on Mubi! No need for attending international film festivals anymore 😎
Happy only when miserable!
Am I like that??
But why is he like that? Can this quest actually help him to improve his life/self/world?
Is the ending a fantasy, or……?
Is it okay to be abnormal? To what extent should we just accept without trying to change things?
Wouldn’t it be even more pathetic to be full of self-pity and no one else to share it with?
“Upgrade”
Found it in the top 50 movies of 2018 – a Mubi editors’ list!
Guilty pleasure/cheap thrill 😜
A mashup of Venom & Ex Machina – better than the former but not as good as the latter
Compare with “Pity”! Was that one also a revenge film??
How is justice different from revenge? And what does a victim do when the law fails to deliver?
Yes! VR/dream/afterlife is less painful than actual life. But, does it mean that it’s also “better”? Just try to permanently live in the altered state, then you will see the hell within that too!
26.1.19
– I read one chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses and it was excruciatingly boring, so I just moved on to another novel!
(Maybe I was also depressed during that read, and looking for a quick fix……?)
– sub-personalities
The noble aim
Canonical motivations and emotions
Phenomenology and cosmology
Abstraction ~ idealization ~ projection
Consciousness ~ awareness + intelligence + articulation
Being ~ reality; Experience ~ existence
Co-creators
– Would the Big Bang count as a Badiouian event?
30.1.19
– Dead rubber
1.2.19
– Try Linux!?
4.2.19
– The Christian as pastor as confessor
Baptism ~ anointing ~ ordination
– Animal culture – jealousy, competition, hierarchy, etc. are NOT exclusive to humans!
It seems that, contrary to our intuition, these facts are NOT dependent on anthropic self-consciousness……
– linkify
5.2.19
– Movies:
“Original Sin”
WOW! One of my favorites?
Jolie looks perfect for the part! She is the forbidden fruit and the sinister serpent in-one.
Banderas can act as a hapless & blind fool too!
Compare with Dostoevsky’s “Idiot” – the Christ figure
The glory and folly of love
Can love be separated from lust/desire & need/obsession?
Self-forgetfulness can be as destructive as self-absorption
Gender role-reversals – awesome!
“Widows”
Compare with “Original Sin” – intimacy, betrayal & redemption – this one is more subversive!
Never mistake feminine vulnerability for weakness! I have seen firsthand the tenacity of the female spirit (E.g. Chellam)
In the end, she (wife/mother) was stronger than him (husband/father) – she never gave up on “them”.
The ambient grief along with the audacious action was gripping indeed!
The male is more individualistic and the female is more relational. Therefore, when it comes to things like marital fidelity, she is unbeatable. The male is more of a solo survivor.
Friendship, in the midst of adultery, political corruption and racial violence
Female bonding – the company of God-forsaken humans form a community of mutual support, in the aftermath of the death of the Messiah!
– Today, I let a stranger, alleging to be a poor, needy man into the house. And bought the suit fabric he was selling.
I later discovered that I had spent double the price of what I got.
He could have even threatened & robbed us (my mother-in-law was also present)!
Although I keep talking/thinking about how I have become egoistic and nihilistic, I still remain a sympathetic idiot! 😖
Why??
Is there still a remnant of the old Christian ethic of “entertaining angels” in me?
Is it okay to get cheated when you want to help the other??
– Compare:
Interpretation of ancient myths
&
Dream analysis
What is the episteme of such contemporary endeavors?
How is that related to the “original context” of these 2 areas?
– Proper verse
Meme fest
Younger twin
6.2.19
– There is a place/level at which physics & metaphysics start merging!
– Distinguish:
Rhythm day (Saturdays)
&
Random day (Tuesdays)
Rhythm – flexible discipline
Random – moderated entertainment
7.2.19
– YouTube Red
#letsdoeit
9.2.19
– Tension ~ conflict
Balance ~ harmony
15.2.19
– Put a sock in it
bough
16.2.19
– “When God set forth to create the universe, his Thought encompassed all the worlds at once.…All were created in a single instant.”
– Zohar
Could this be compared to the quantum multiverse coming out of the Big Bang?!
The eternal moment
True creation is bringing something out of nothing – a timeless/spiritual/divine act – of which you & me are also capable!
It is indeed amazing that the insights of religious mystics is a kind of meta/ultra-science……
– farrier
Conservation status
Subfossil cave specimen
Fossilization
Pay-per-view (PPV) event of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
headwind
Toxic masculinity
Face-mask for bowlers?!
17.2.19
– bae
18.2.19
– Scribd snapshots
– Movies:
Bumblebee
Watched it in 4DX @ PVR (no IMAX or 3D) – one of my worst movie experiences!
The Transformer as the heroine’s fantasy.
Throwing herself into a mission that is larger than oneself (“saving the world”) rescues her out of the rut of grief & resentment……
மௌன ராகம்
Valentine’s Day movie with Chellam – couldn’t get a good HD copy to download.
Deserves to be a classic!
Can be melodramatic & sentimental, but still authentic & gripping.
The tension between being true to oneself and preserving relational integrity
Truth-speaking + forgiveness = peace
Manchester by the Sea
OMG! One of the most poignant & pungent films I’ve seen…
Tragedy as therapy for depression!
I can identify with the hero’s self-loathing & rage.
The conversation between him & the ex-wife towards the end is heart-breaking & beautiful!
Sometimes, responding to the outstretched hand of another troubled sheep beside you is the only thing that can help heal your own wounds……
– The Duke University chapel website is accessible via mobile data pack, but not through broadband/WiFi.
How come?! 🤪
– Vasant Panchami
Sunday of Zaccheus
Hieromartyr Charalambus
tangerine
Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee
Preparing for Lent
Eastern Catholic
Trisagion (thrice holy)
Confessor
– India Vs. Pakistan
Distinguish country & government
20.2.19
– Law, Prophets & Psalms ~ Theory, practice & experience
All integrated into epic (poetic narrative)!
– The Ego & Its Own ~ The Individual & Its Property ~ The Unique & Its Self-creation
– Track-album-artist ~ day-stage-person
21.2.19
– JSTOR Daily
– Movies:
Compliance
OMG!!! Grueling, infuriating and prophetic……
Who is Craig Zobel?
I don’t think I’m an exception to any of the victimized characters
It’s very easy to say, “Why didn’t you just say No!?” & “How stupid and gullible can you be?!” when watching this from outside!
Compare such deadly pranks/scams with (so-called) harmless stuff like “candid camera”, “just for laughs”, etc.
Persons reduced to cogs-in-the-machine – required watching especially for those who are part of huge organizations (like Christ University).
A nightmare that could well be part of a Situationist propaganda
“The banality of evil”?
“I just (try to) do my job” “I’ll do whatever is required (of me)”
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