17.4.19
– Chaos within overarching order
Vs.
Minimal structure within spontaneity
– Secret arms deals
Weaponized anti-matter
lectern
MAD – mutually assured destruction
Occult detective subgenre
ratiocination
Gothic haunting
Outer monstrosities
steampunk vacuum tubes
Ab-human shadows
Bleeding-edge
Frontier territory
Weird fiction
Modern sorcery
Objectively cute
Bigspoon
noological
Mineral life; inorganic consciousness
– Damaging myths
18.4.19
– Help me, heal me, save me……
Please!
20.4.19
– Dysthymia (Chronic persistent depression)
Distinguish from Major Depression
Pessimism/nihilism/scepticism (Philosophy)
Intellectual/introvert/eccentric/contemplative
Melancholia
21.4.19
– Do you (still) love the church, Joe?
– Tone-policing
Soft porn ~ hard tease
“Might as well……”
22.4.19
– Movies (Mubi):
Halfway There (French short film)
“Thou Wast Mild & Lovely”
– Unwed bride ~ virgin mother
Penitence & exorcism
Akathist hymn to the (Most Holy) Theotokos
Holy Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Great Friday
Passover seder
Pesach I – VIII
World Heritage Day
Unacceptably awkward
Merciful remembrance
Erev Pesach
Illness & pain ~ transgression & grief
PASCHA
Lazarus Saturday
Johannes Bugenhagen
Low German
National Civil Services Day
Easter Monday
Strength ~ song ~ salvation
Sanction waivers
marina
row (n.)
– Transubstantiation (bread & wine to body & blood) ~ Resurrection (dead Jesus to risen Christ)
Double sacrifice – GOD on the Cross – both the one who suffers & the one who inflicts……!
– The mentally ill as vicarious (& therefore redemptive) sacrifices – Christ figures!
The Messiah(s) is by definition, rejected……
The salvific is always misconstrued as penal.
– Distinguish (Roman) Catholic & (Eastern) Orthodox liturgy/calendar
– Pastor ~ confessor
Distinguish from mentor & counselor
23.4.19
– My body is my only weapon~asset~home
It’s not time to marry~worry yet!
Joy ~ Joe ~ Jon ~ Jen…?
(Pornstar tattoos)
– Nud(e)-ist saint
“…my reason for reason”
State of exception
Secret society
infosphere
Distinguish the non-human & misanthropy
dialetheism
Redefining enmity
The weaponization of Life
Death-dealing life and life-giving death
Miasmatic life
Profound lability
Pathological life
Living numbers
The affective fantasy of total chaos
24.4.19
– What’s the difference between fruit & vegetable?
25.4.19
– God-damned bad-ass motherfucker
Sweet & savory
27.4.19
– perfections
hypergrowth
hylomorphism
Negative concept
Non-relation
Apocalypse = disaster + messianic + resurrection
Excess as lack
Catastrophism
Personal, political & planetary
Extra-liminality
Horizon of experience
Condition ~ culmination ~ negation
Organon of extinction
Elemental/non-organic life
Speculative annihilation
The ever-receding line/point
Distinguish being & life…?
Absent centre/null set
Post-human; anti-humanist
Theo-biology
False problem
Inexplicit tendency
A non-life that is not death
Impossible existence
Concept horror
Noological interiority
Anonymous thingness
Absolute otherness
Spiritual abject/oozing abstraction
living-ing
Transcendence + immanence = emanence
Geomancy
Physiognomy
Inquisitions & Reformations
Mystical existence
Natural philosophy & negative theology
Unground
Jacob Böhme
pewter
Human metaphysics
Distinguish neutrality & negation
Mutual (human & divine) indifference & anonymity!
Conceiving the unthought
Nonthinking
Useless fulfillment
Political economy & planetary (r)evolution
autochthonic
– If matter/energy/information cannot be completely destroyed, but only transformed from one level/form/mode to another, then what about the spiritual/personal/mental??
– If what you are thinking of is unthinkable/nonconceptual, then how do you even know it exists?
– The (crucified & resurrected) Christ as the historical divine, or the messianic revelation of the unhuman GOD – is this “good news”?!
Could it be that salvation is forgiveness, for the ultimate sin of taking ourselves too seriously, and the consequent foolhardy belief that GOD was pissed off with us……?
– If happiness is an illusion or unworthy goal, then should I try to make my life not-miserable?
Is it essential that I am sad in order to be(come) me?
Or should I use whatever I have at my disposal to make life easier/more tolerable?
28.4.19
– Bengaluru: Summer (>= 35° C) – 20th Feb. – 20th May (3 months a year)
– Distinguish:
Moving on
&
Starting over
“Whatever it takes!”
“To the end!”
29.4.19
– Gee-whiz
Pedantic ~ academic
Silence, darkness & emptiness
– >250 election officials in Indonesia dead.
Why?!
3.5.19
– Fail! videos
– Movies:
Avengers – Endgame
Wandering Earth
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