Month: September 2022

7.8.22

Aporetic dialectics

Pure sensations

Unphilosophie

Logical suicide – why do people NOT kill themselves?? 🤔

Indifferentism

8.8.22

Where is your power-pack?

Am I having a headache?

9.8.22

Why won’t you COME to Westworld, Joe??
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come

10.8.22

Professional cribbers

Indian English

Quasar pair

People who use drugs (PWUD)

Special Interest Groups (SIG)

Controversy analysis

Moral entrepreneurs

itemization

Prohibitionists Vs. Reformists

Pseudo-neutrality

Researchers < – – > science

Distinguish:
Victim & Captive

skyhooks

Truth Vs. Becoming

The undeniable is also the unendurable!

Anarchism as active nihilism
Pessimism as passive nihilism

Physiological decadence

European Buddhism

Overcoming the desire to overcome

German philosophy Vs. Russian literature

Revolutionary love
Positive annihilation
Double failure
Mythology of reason
Enlightenment >> nihilism >> ideology
Abstraction >> reification >> commodification

Hateful cheer

oblomovism

propaedeutic

Apocalyptic Heideggerianism

The essentially disappointing logic of redemption

12.8.22

43!

War is the paradigmatic civil/internecine event!

factoids

A lifetime of revisionary scholarship

13.8.22

Ideologies of experience

Moving closer to perfect failure

I AM pearl among swine!

introjection
supplice
Coercive fantasies
Extreme & stringent ideas
Criticism as resistance
protoself

Emotional values

Primary, secondary & tertiary literatures

14.8.22

Zombie Manifesto

Future nostalgia

Unburied corpse

Public toilet

pointillist

Unpoor beggar

Hivemind ~ groupthink

Cringe-worthy horror-comedy

15.8.22

lectern
dilatory

Alexander & Ann Shulgin

The truth of power
Vs.
The power of truth

I wanna know what it’s like to be “young & dumb & full of cum” again!

Silence is MORE than just the absence of words – it is the PRESENCE that destroys all sensations, thoughts, emotions, images, memory, knowledge, etc.

(The reality of) NOTHING >> (the concept of) nothingness

Evolution of sensibility

Polemical zeal

Sarcastic genius

Antoine Roquentin

Recursion & iteration

Scandalous superfluity

Mysterium tremendum et nauseans!

Why does anything exist ~ how can this not exist – ??

Consciousness + Nothing = nausea (not emptiness!) → ZoZoba the Bruddha!

The metaphysical fuckery of the cosmic jester

16.8.22

The pitiless witness

Distinguish: Superficial & Superfluous

quid-pro-quo
terre-a-terre
bidet
raffish, rakish
aperitif
eiderdown
paling, palisade
Childish stupefaction
Nothing new!
proctor, invigilator

Why is it so hard to just give up!?

Suicidality & feminine literature

“I need to see the truth before it’s too late…”

Bad romance
Bad conscience
Bad faith
boggle
Sweetish sickness
Hand-nausea
Self-abandon
Disconsolate state-us
Miserly sufferer
Magnetic clowning
manikin
The worst excesses of seduction
sexpressiveness
Hilarious absurdity
Magisterial dupe
Constant betrayal
Asiatic principalities
False reflections
Ridiculously touching
Uncertain light
Ambiguous charm
Cold clarities of supreme self-contempt
Half-mad magician
intriguers
Christian sentiments
Nonplussed – confused & unperturbed

Touch-screen – keep your eyes on the (exact/current button of the) keyboard when typing, and go steady (neither fast nor slow)……!

Is sobriety just another effect of a universal hallucinogen?

empathogen/entactogen

https://doi.org/10.2307/2928831

Dostoevsky’s Nasty Story

I hate speed!

Do adults ever get “bored to tears”??

17.8.22

Erotic Coleridge
Death of D. H. Lawrence
intestate
The institution of famous last words
lugubrious
Gallows humor
Literary consumptives
Critical heritage
Blithe economizing
Passionate psychologist

The flight from the self

Saw ~ saying
effete
Rich shoal
Disappearing worlds
Sharp reserve
fray

The unnameable lust

Sardonic relish

wahnstimmung
baroque
Irreconcilable dualisms
Mad time
phantasmagoria

18.8.22

The beggar outside my door is waiting for Godot…

You can hear me, but I’m not here!

Nothing is possible, and everything is impossible, but……!

Enough ~ snuff ~ Nuf

mnemic
Subversive loyalty
Erotic fractures
prinzip
Pleasure (psychoanalysis) and destruction (deconstruction)

Erotic practices
Vs.
Annihilate alterity

Sociality Vs. Sovereignty

Redeeming cruelty

Parapraxis ~ interference ~ failure

Differance, repetition & representation

Presence & trace
Conflictual (as opposed to harmonious) field

19.8.22

Slow-race

Convenience ~ conviction

Holy love ~ eros-agape ~ sacrifice-cruelty

Recreating (my memory of) the past, in order to open up the future

Orgy >> 4D body

I code the story-teller

You have made my world/life into a game!

Waiting/trying/hoping to fall asleep – canceling the indefinite postponement of death

Exercising the injured limb!

You must open your mouth to give up the ghost, bro.

Desiring pleasure & shunning pain → de-detached observation → shunning pleasure & desiring pain → integrating pain & pleasure!

De(toxing in)-toxication

Before we can become friends, you need to be my slave…

In order to become trans-human, you must first invent the non-human

Agonistic friendship

Is evil the root of freedom, or is freedom the root of evil?

pars pro toto
Disease of the will
monogram
cypher
hendiadys
Absolute subjects and total victims
Crimes of obedience
Mediocre demons & pastoral power
The Dostoevsky paradigm of evil
The ultimization of the will-to-life

20.8.22

advertorial
excise (n.)
In lieu

The good news of ad-blocking!

diablerie

21.8.22

Negative sum game

Universe, metaverse, multiverse… And, VERSE!

Outrageous & paradoxical vindication

GOD @ Apollo Hospitals!

Sophia Saint ~ Sinn Sage

The play of light

22.8.22

Dealing with difference produces pain, and depending on (the willingness to increase) our capacity for suffering, we evolve (both as individuals, relationships & groups)!
Here again, the question is, “Is this WORTH it??” ☝🏾

The body IS the void, which transcends time & space

Where do we go from all these orthodoxies??

Matter & matters

Ontic miasma
Hitopadesha; Panchatantra
canny
colophon
The absolute future and the future present – the New Vs. The next
Overlapping & contested temporalities
impassioning
Non-confessional theology
Non-salvific eschatology
Necrotic faith
Rabbinical poetics
Khôra
Divine inexistence
A/theological materialism
Pre-philosophical crisis of authority
The law of unintended consequences
meta-discourse
Money & value
Alternative pieties
Liturgy of everyday life
Hermeneutical discernment
Epigenesis; epigenetics
Plastic religion
The human, machine, animal and the reject

STOP trying to, unfuck yourself &/or, save the world. Instead, learn to affirm anything & everything (including the desire/compulsion to set everything right)…

The critical task of responding to the gratuitous gift

23.8.22

escrow
worthies
embargo
Cross-subsidy

yogini
Integral Dynamic Therapy
Contemplative Psychology
Meditative psychoanalysis
The smart Vagus
The hermeneutics of silence
Art deco

lout
fret-saw
soughing
Body horror
Dark religiosity
Dress rehearsal of the end
Abject alien
Riddle of the sphinx
Common-coin reasons

Slow & heavy ~ metal ballads

24.8.22

Natural born killer
Murder & authenticity
Destroying false continuity
Attention. Attention!
Post-disciplinary works
Critical imaginations

“How (s) low did you go, to get that high? “

I can see her fantasies!

Hurt ~ shame/guilt

No regrets, no hesitation

Always dying, never dead

Come join us, and get cancelled!

gneiss
esculent
stucco
reconnoiter
The backward abysm of our bio-existential situation

Very VERY gentle exercise

Good vamp(ire)s

Reading as performance – am I consuming or creating content right now??

25.8.22

Transcending the comic/tragic narrative divide via cosmic/mystic horror!

Over-the-top vileness
contra naturam
intercontextualize
gashead
martyrology
bricolage
Vaporing coves
Fear of contamination
Esoteric pleasures
Occult processes
Sudden takeover
Biomorphic fate
Tartarus
Physiological credibility
Painless sufferings
Loathsome implications
Mortal coil
Word choice
Sublimating strategies
Organic apprehension
Charnel houses & mortuary vaults
Virtual morbid
docu-drama
Superannuated castle
danse macabre
Archetypal functions
Informatic paradigms

Outraging the gods

I have invented a novel method of self-crucifixion – exquisite torture!

Un-planning ~ Ur-vision

Perverting, subverting & distorting (the notion of) beauty

Do you think you can indulge reading/watching/hearing all this “sick stuff”, and get away with it, Joe!? But isn’t this carnal/human/contradictory life itself an abomination??

Thanatological erotomania

The Gothic (horror)
Vs.
The Greek (tragedy)

Suspense as a fertilizing strategy

I am nauseated by the common sedatives

Fight or flight – 3rd way – distinguish stand (defiant rage) & freeze (sheer panic)

Ageing as universal/normal disease

Halloween for adults

Rooted in the sky – delving into the very basis/source of experience, often seems/feels like escapism!

Is it true that the intellectual/nihilist is closer to the enlightened greats, than the common/moral folk?

redolence
The politics of suicide
archaism
Annihilation ~ transcendence
Idealised mass-self
passé problematic
Modern afterlives
The progressive embodiment of natural negation
ownmost
Being-toward-death
Factical possibilities
Excess ~ destruction

Passive defiance

26.8.22

The broken – and soon to be empty – hourglass

War-games

Dope-amine! 😜

Immersive reading (Kindle Whispersync for Voice) + active reading (Liquid Text)

Organize your workspace and automate your workflow

Document/source + workspace/context

27.8.22

Successful parasuicide
Cosmic roulette
The neuro-dynamics of anger
Grief work
Traumarama
Prepackaged shame

I need a Bluetooth speaker that stays in the air at exactly the position I place it in…

CAN anything (good) come out of this??

I am the silence that covers everybody else around me

28.8.22

Olympians Vs. Titans

Finished the Mubi Top 1000 yet, Joe?! Should I resolve or should I not??

She is my ego

Modern rationalism Vs. The tragic sublime

The noble lie of reason

Do NOT look at the screen (other than the keypad), when typing!

Breathe-ing (as) exercise

Tactical exertion as the means, with relaxation as the goal

Erasing the gap between (what) is and (what) ought

Future ~ end ~ beginning

Citizen journalists
Wild-card entry

“We are condemned to hope”
“I am lost, because I am free”

29.8.22

gulch
jawing

Kafka’s Metamorphosis, UGK’s calamity….. and waking up to the human condition!

The counterfeit doubles

31.8.22

retrench
Wage bubble
Basis points

Bad miracles

The aesthetics of leadership

Smokers Anonymous

Nope, Northman!

“Cut the thread of fate” – the deficiency of subjective purposiveness in the pursuit of freedom

The tragic absolute

Fundamental criticism is philosophy

Freedom transfigured by mortality

Nihilism Vs. Scepticism

The necessary illusion of harmonious opposition

Reason Vs. Nature – Identity is NOT Being!

Moralization/romanticization of Reality

The only way to access the REAL is via a “free play” between the Imaginary and the Symbolic

Succeeding in death, by failing at life!

Who told you that men and women belong to the “same species”?!

Intellectual intuition ~ emotional understanding

Dissolution as freedom – embracing (our failure to master) the Overwhelming/Sublime!

coterie
paratactic
Future perfect – “this will have been true”
Supreme madness and prophetic speech
feuilleton
Originary moment
exergue
Vision quest

From the Word of GOD to voices of the Gods

Prefigured fate and transfigured resolution

1.9.22

Retreat, or surrender!

stickler
berserker
Shock troop
moccasin
seeress
Honorable failure
Revenge consumption
hyper-lapse
NFTs
Gig economy
Inflicting pleasure
Public policy professionals

truant; hooky
Misanthropic apathy
The perverse sincerity of the humorist
rictus
Whipping-boy
Cretan syncretism

“The world will never know you, like I do”

2.9.22

Snicker terms
ensconced
stilted
chez
orthogonal
parlay
bumptious
dishabille
raconteur
crouton
metontology
unconcealed
turret
nefas
topos

Revisionist history
Righteous vengeance
Luxuriant violence
Monkeypaw Productions
Insurmountable context
The compositional unity of a poetic phenomenology of existence
Sensuous/temporal thought
The Anaximandrian unlimited
Remembering (preserving the memory of) finitude
Sublime events
The Empedoclean spiral of love & strife
The All Vs. The One
Fate as the Law of Being
Artistic orchestration of biological ethos
Professional dreamers
Omnipotent deceiver
Film crew
Manifest-destiny
Impersonal autobiography
Antinomian style
Magical thinking
Limit attitude
Epochal discordance
The negative remembrance of the divine
Distinguish: Representation & Presence
Windowless cell
Economy: Restrictive Vs. General
The violent exteriority of the sacred
From rational categories to poetic tones
The fatal illusions of mortality
Ecstatic truth
Free acquiescence
The calculable laws of multidimensional (human) existence
Traces of remembrance
Deciding what remains
Symphonic ethos of th Dionysian community
Politicians of the soul
pseudo-philosophies
Theologians disguised as philosophers
Signs without meaning

Shiva(‘s) Baby

How does one develop the patience to develop patience?

Enthusiasm for purposeless living

What is the opposite of “sinning”?

Pete Sampras used to sleep for 13 hours a day!

Just because we are consciously aware of our animality DOESN’T mean we can transcend it! The only alternative to tragedy is hubris.

Getting lost in the flow/flux of being IS creativity!

The falsity/failure of ironic (Romantic/Christian) wit

The individual as the reproduction & transformation of com(monal/mun)ity

3.9.22

abysmal
classicist
Mnemosyne
mechane

Annihilation as emancipation

Seminal moment
Eternal surface
Transcendent imagination
Novel translations
Personal essays
Contesting reformulations
Subjectivist impasse
Forgetful ~ desolate
Meta-narrative ~ mythos
Modernity as secularized Christianity
Nothingness ~ infinity ~ absolute ~ ultimate
Susceptibilities named as powers
Open, purposeless possibility
Aorgic & organic
The genealogy of a determinative typology
Humean awakening from dogmatic slumber
Erring on the side of truth
Copernican subjectivity
Hypothetical theology
Judgment – Reflective & Determinative

Kantian Judgment ~ Laruellian Decision

4.9.22

The fundamental act of self-positing
Mourning play
copula
cheesy
PBUH

The union of logic (thought) & metaphysics (being)

5.9.22

Does my theoretical knowledge have a (radical/determinative) subconscious effect on my physiology (& vice-versa)?!?

brain-fade
Thaumaturgic idealism
Heuristic poetics
Anti-foundationalist systematics
French aphorists
Multi-genre
Romantic confusion
Mythos, ethos & logos
Sensation, understanding & imagination
Intentional fragments
Night Hymns
Necromancy of love
Ceaseless fragmentation and alternative construction
Embedded in the conflicts of succession
Kantian ironic irony!
The penny dropped
Prosaic architectonic
Mortal narrator
Apprenticeship in existence
quip
The projection & preservation of the beloved
Diurnal/seasonal spirituality
diremption
Bacchantic frenzy
Feminine nature & masculine reason
Plastic works
Terrestrial transmutability
The moralities of subjective purposiveness
Ouroboros
Clumsy impatience

Romantic comedy Vs. Epic tragedy

Momentary thinking

All ideas are covert ideals!

DON’T read, when moving the page

Permanent revol(ve)ution

She has filled all her holes with herself!

6.9.22

From the numbness of numbness, to the pain of numbness, to the pleasure of numbness……!

Skeptical theism
Theological necrophilia
Non-developmental spirituality
The differentiation (NOT division) of being into subject & object
Living union
Being ~ Life (includes death) ~ Nature
Liberty, equality & fraternity among all creatures in an organic indestructible harmony
Indeterminate duality
Hopeless infinite progress
Aesthetic intuition
Our commemorative relation to the divine origin
metempsychosis

The dictatorship of genealogy
Bastards in power
Distinguish: Resentment & Rage
Consumption ~ cremation
Rogue nations masquerading as reputable empires
Sulphuric character
Historical dramaturgy
Jacobinian physics
Soviet Thermidor
“In his lifetime, he was half right”
The Russian Revolution as a re-enactment play
Political autodidact
Theoretical cold-bloodedness
Slavish heroes
Reality designers
Destabilization as the new norm
Money as the mongrelizing energy par excellence

flâneur

Remembering the Longing for desire

8.9.22

Blended narrative – history & myth
Joy Vs. Contentment
The intimacy of the Night Vs. The religions of the Day
Dreaming as hoping
Capacity for the holy
Genealogy of the sacred
Pseudo-mathematization of philosophy
Objectivity beyond dogmatism – possible?
Dionysians in an Apollonian age
The new sophistry
Aristocratic gatekeepers
matheme, poiesis, polis & eros
Collective assumptions, affirmations & aspirations

saturnalia
purloin

Extended highlights

Mental models

9.9.22

Metafiction & metareality
Chaos sex Magick
co(s)mic
quimp-er
sympatico
Deep-cover code-names
Rocky Horror Picture Show

“Be innocent in good, and excellent in evil”

Campy hero ~ trans-messiah

Distinguish: Tragic & Pathetic
Weakness/Hubris/comedy
Vs.
Strength/Honesty/tragedy
Tragic festival ~ celebration of mortality (& eternal recurrence)
Fate as the law of life/being
Errancy ~ forgetfulness
Dionysus ~ Bacchus
From nihilistic/intellectual hubris to cosmic/tragic joy
Distinguish: Mortal fate & Manifest destiny
Hostility to herd virtues
ver(s)ification
Playful blasphemy
Self-knower ~ self-hangman
“I am your labyrinth” ~ Ariadne/Nietzsche & Dionysus/eternity
The desertification of affirmative culture

The Big 3 (Tennis greats), and me, are NOT THAT different! 😅

Old gods
Vs.
New demons

The threat of global warming (with dangerously rising sea levels), and the promise of GOD to Noah that he would not again destroy the world by flooding (symbolized by the rainbow)……

Inverse greatness

Ambitious greed Vs. Hedonistic abandon

Morality/religion
Vs.
Mortality/reality

The Dionysian Jesus and Apollonian Christianity!
The tower of Babel and the utopian kingdom of GOD

11.9.22

911 → 9/11

heroization
Epinician

Difficult pleasures
Dionysus Dithyrambs
From performance to permanence
Gods/destiny/mortality
Vs.
Heroes/freedom/achievement
Astonishing art
Poets/artists as philosophers/prophets
Cutting-edge antiquity ~ Future classicism
Material survivals
Topics, sources & methods – combine, blend & transcend!
Energy, rigor & scope
Occasional poetry
Trans-historical analysis
“Just a poet”
ad alta voce
Anemic sublimes
After the premiere
Pure aesthetics
Exemplifying (as opposed to describing) sublimity
Subliminal subtleties
Doing justice in praise
diapason
Cloud cuckoo land
in spate

Deutero-canonical/apocryphal works (art)

From Christian theology to Greek mythology – pilgrim’s regress!?

12.9.22

Good organizations ~ Kingdom of GOD

Free-thinkers ~ philosophers