14.10.22
The anti-semitism of the Jews
Aryanism as a subaltern perspective
The social preference for serial over unique objects
The anti/supra-individual experience
The irrelevance of “rights”
The factory/industry as museum of the future
Machine-art
Modern technology as total artwork
marque
Back-formation
The cinema Vs. The theater
15.10.22
The post-historical condition
“How can you see the stars from that far down?”
Silence + lyrics + music =>> song!
Let your breath speak!
17.10.22
The thinker is also (just another) thought!
An already enlightened person striving to be liberated – everything’s just for fun!
Move-ing from moment to moment
“Silence is the answer!” – now, do you get it?
Silence ~ energy ~ action
Words, without emotions or images
21.10.22
“The Light Between Oceans” – Janus is the main character.
“Yellowjackets” – Moon Homecoming ~ Doomcoming!
“It’s a skin-suit.” – “The Man Who Fell to Earth”
“Too Old To Die Young” – Mid-life crisis
22.10.22
I have designed my own womb
“Only feel the night – DREAM!”
Enjoying the wait?
“I know the pieces fit” – Tool
“Break free from reality” – Angelus Apatrida
“Living energy” – UGK
phat ass
Yeah! THIS is a flop
Sorry Angel on Mubi @ 38:26
Bio-centric eco-fiction trilogy
Is Timothy Morton a hyper-object?
Plant entelechy
Did you watch what was showing/running on the screen?
“Love yourself” – do you remember where, when and how you saw that?
Eroto-eco-critical-theory
Sound art – whale sounds in Gojira
23.10.22
“He’s doing what he does” – On Virat Kohli
“I’m not here, this isn’t happening!” – Radiohead
Who’s Bojana Jovanovic?
24.10.22
But what if extinction (species) is integral to evolution (Nature)?!
Can this ever/even be remembered?
Anti-sentimental scepticism
Sheet-leest
Spiritual deception ~ philosophical trauma
Transcendental disillusionment
Deliberately constructed conscious rhetorical choices – socially aware, and gendered narratives that threaten to disintegrate when forcing the authors’ deep fears of Nature to kick in – narrators’ rhetoric ultimately strays from the deliberateness of the narratives due to the severity of nature they encounter.
Look into the distant past and remote future, to get some idea of where we are today – the world always ever IS the SAME! The eternal situation of Dasein
Unspoiled ~ untamed ~ unknown
Brutally honest opinions – sexist, racist & elitist… fickleness Nature
What’s the relationship between light, time & space?
The setting as actor
Encounter, describe & create realities
dangerous but purifying . . . violent, unbalanced, improvisatory, [and] dynamic – all this and more!
“she travelled about a fortnight, on horseback, under the direction of a hired guide, with frequent risks of life and limb, and sometimes without food or shelter for many miles” – the Devil’s protection, provision & guidance
Amoral ~ dark ~ demonic ~ evil?
Her straightfaced stance . . . is that she must try to survive in spite of accommodations
picaro ~ rogue – literary, colonized and domesticated, ‘urbanized,’ dangerous, comic, practical, and amoral – my journal’s picaresque affinities virtually require her to downplay the dangers and emphasize her native wit and courage
Scream + emo = screamo-punk
Metaphorically and physically getting lost in the smomp (smoke + fog + swamp + Night)
Inclement whether
Name ~ shame ~ fame
The lost guide
and the last fatiguing leg of the journey eventually reveal a narrator who has lost her picaresque jauntiness and rhetorical bravado in increasingly terse, straightforward journal entries as……
Meta-documentary – Werner Herzog on Timothy Treadwell
horsefall
My fears and fatigues prevented my here taking any particular observation
Taking language to the very edge of silence
Formally intimate and bawdy content
Articulating 2 separate versions for 2 different audiences
Into some semblance of order
Great Dismal Swamp
…the ravages of time and nature left Byrd’s survey line “vague”, because the line was marked only on trees, and in time, disappeared – Nature resists surveying.
Because of an eroding spit of sand, the surveyors cannot agree on the starting point
Colonials read swampland as unattained capital, an outward sign of social decay
Covered with impenetrable thickets and hostile beaver dams
Fatigued, lost or dead horsemanship
horndog
Come for a cuddle
squaw
prat
Breton friend
Why should I have to speak?
“Don’t blame me.” “I don’t judge you.”
“Promise me, you’ll learn to sully beauty, my friend”
Detourner
Jacques & Arthur will like each other
“Love is the perfect prison” – Wilson Fisk
26.10.22
Mind/thought/culture ~ fear/time/self
Film courage
Watch porn when sober, and serial when stoned
Negative ecologies
Literary ecologies
Abstract ecologies
hedgestakes
D. H. Lawrence’s Foreword to “All Things Are Possible” by Leo Shestov
“A primal scream is the only satisfying release”
Vociferously objected to a pacific seminar
Harry Heine the Thinking Devil, just like Willy Fisk
Saint-Simonianism
27.10.22
well-head
excentric
At the Edge of Being Human: Liminality in Free Meter Hymnic Poetry (Goethe, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Rilke)
manorial
backlist
Strangely Protean canards
Unique brand of droll self-mockery
Post-Romantic self-consciousness
Heinrich’s “Heine” – “his noisy and assertive reticence about himself has a particular kind of ominous eloquence”
This feels somewhat like (reading) Lautreamont’s poetry!
Pearls before swine ~ my shit before people
twit
The poetics of breathing
It argues that for Shestov, escape from the limits of rationalist Enlightenment thought comes from maintaining an insomniac vigilance in the face of the spiritual night to which his century appeared condemned.
In signaling a breakout from the academic rut and its repressive hold, their interventions advanced critical alternatives for moving beyond the predicament of an ossified institutionalized way of doing philosophy whose traumatizing consequences could no longer be ignored.
Invented laws as “eternal truths”
belied
Materially unprofitable and socially dangerous ideas
Think, suffer & die
fly-leaf
Morality, family, money ~ order, work, harmony ~ humanity, reason, fear
Do the right thing…… for your family!
28.10.22
The Nothing Ear 1
engodded – eternal martyrdom
Kantara – A Legend (2022) – Superstition Vs. Shamanism
The snake has swallowed its own tail – I had a huge vagina – dream or vision?
In order to put life/body/spirit over thought/mind/world, you need the help of the intellect/wisdom/philosophy, unless you’re an exceptional genius!
29.10.22
Distinguish:
Wow
Om
&
wOh!
Tartar
She likes cock too… Cocteau?
“I wanna give you more than I’ve got”
30.10.22
Everything is equally impossible and possible
Satan is crucified on the cross of pleasure
Your silliness turns me off, baby! 🤨
The cemetery business
Asinine patience
augur (n.)
“I can see I’m going blind”
“Let the world perish, let philosophy be”
calf-rapture
31.10.22
Dark, darker, darkest!
Evil careers
Sadism & surrealism
Is what I am watching, actually cannibalism?!
Mystical associations, visionary dreams, decadent fantasies
reliquary
demonomania
Enlightenment rationality, bourgeois morality, Christian prudery, capitalist work-ethic
Crimes of magic
Methods of transmutation
spagyric
Papal bulls
Hermetic science
Confounding turpitude
The unforgivable sin of deceiving GOD
oubliette, immurement
gibbet
infamatio
Gilles de Rais crosses himself! ✝️
blanched
Felicien Rops
Sublimated ordure
Cerebral erethism
Morose delectation
Demonic hysteria, mental masturbation
Singular mystery, carnal outcries
Dragoon
Savage humor
Rutting humanity
hunches
Falstaffian jollity
tightwad, cupidity, breeches
fulgurate
carunculated
strappado
aquiline
nohow
Whore of Babylon ~ Queen slut ~ She-Lucifer
jack-screw
Fawning fauns
roisterer
Dispiteous kisses
scabrous
Satan ~ Serpent ~ Eve ~ Woman
Witches’ sabbath
Dirty-rich
hieratic
lucubration
Breton
uprear
preachment
mandrake, hippomanes
thyrsus
venery
satyriasis
flouncey
Diaboliques ~ Satanique
chancery
dilatory
crone
frontispiece
wheedle
Dantesque
grimoire
Unspeakable confessions
The goal is NOT maximum pleasure!
Do we have sex, because you love me, or because you love sex?
Pitbull terrier
Beautiful twist of fate
How can you possibly remember the future? I can help you understand!
Impossibility is nothing but extreme improbability
1.11.22
Foreplay forever!
jalopy
biotope
New mad meanings
The nihilistic mystic
demagination
ballast
3.11.22
Unique one ~ ownness ~ self-possession
Motive impulse
From ethical personalism to dissident individualism
Critical turbulence
Johann Caspar Schmidt
Desultory life
Invincible reserve
Maybe reality is really frivolous!?
Inexcusable vulgarity
Male intellectuals ~ debauched women
Marie Dahnhardt ~ Salome Divya
The banter of the witnesses made good the absence of choir and congregation, and with fitting levity the two libertarians were united in holy matrimony
In(credulous) love
Too absurd to be dangerous
“Die freien” – confusion & dismay >> indignation & rancor >> hostile disbelief & derision!
Bruno Bauer
The systematically demented philosophy of Saint Max
There is nothing so tedious as an obsolete scandal
Impious malcontent
Wholly perfunctory & standstill existence in a debtor’s prison
Accused of improvidence, culpable fecklessness and the idleness of complacent vanity
4.11.22
Traipsing into danger
One god-damn fucked-up horror picture!
Shotgun wedding
Dying to show you a good time
The penultimate crepuscular phase
Stirner’s mother survived him by ~ 3 years
Outwardly, Stirner’s life must be adjudged a failure
Metaphysical self-assertion, compendious & effortless indifference
latitudinarian
Boundless egoistic irresponsibility
The schizoid illumination of a vertiginous vantage point
feuilleton
Unique ~ holy ~ unknown
Circumjacent movements
Abjure the contemporary crisis of consciousness
proconsuls
Ideological sobriety for the sake of social stability
Groundless & contradictory beliefs
Conflicting prepossessions
condign
peremptory
Provisional accomplices
Untenably confessional ~ indefensibly ordained
Intellectualistic, asocial quietism
Anti-traditionalist conservatism
Feverish self-exculpation
seigneurial
The clumsy Minister of Public Worship & Education
Ultramontane fanaticism
hotspur
Philosophy of disaffection
Pure criticism – activity of dissolution – intellectual solipsism
The allusive badinage of a centrifugal & protean gathering
Aggressive advocate of impassive resignation
1848 Germany ~ 1968 France
Cultural gladiators
Modern mass society
From radical journalist to deadly philosophical marksman
Terse commendation
Realism >> idealism >> egoism
The Unique One Vs. The human being
artificer
Ceaselessly perishing and re-emerging from the creative nothingness in which it is rootlessly rooted
Incommensurable, indefeasible being
Self-justifying immanence
The private-ive self
Grim exultation
Proprietary thinking
Appropriate, transform & discard
Systematic refusal of virtue & meaning
Adult: Contains animal cruelty
5.11.22
bruit
animadversion
batteries
Energetic, economic & acidic commentary
Fractious libertarians
Education as the alimentary process of producing sovereign characters
Exploit/disembowel ~ enjoy/caress
Maieutic ~ spiritual midwifery
Sanguine, reckless, capricious, unstable, promiscuous, unabashed, levity
Seductive agonies & exquisite deprivations
Vapid parody
Deepening ominous interest in self-reappropriation
Unwary allies
The body becomes smaller as Dick becomes bigger ~ KafkaX
How to live to be 10? Cry, hate & die!
Dana Wolf
The lionisation of the sheep
FROM me & mine TO The Unique and its Possession
Quarantine sex
NO(-thing)-self
Lessness
Cumliness
Singing to preaching to silence
In fact, the freer the State, the more inextricably captive its citizens
Repeat, memorize, recite, rewrite
Love is the active state in which the person is passively bound to his/her instinctive desires
The lover and beloved are BOTH egoists! 😜
The self-centred man actively draws into his own being the objects which his self-determining interest alone creates.
Do you know what a failed suicide feels like? Do you know what a beautiful teen girl masturbating feels like?
WHAT lies, OUTSIDE the reign of instinct (Nature) and tyranny of fixed ideas (Culture)?
Using the morality tale as a carnival of cynicism
Midden (muck heap) of dead & unmourned superstitions
Abrupt individualism + rapacious scepticism = Enlightenment ~ &/or self-destruction
Callous frivolity ~ away then, with every cause, which is not wholly & entirely my cause alone.
Massive solitude
paronomasia
Does God enroll himself in the service of Truth or Love?
Does depression have anything to do with narcissism?
Premature dotards
Ataraxy of the ancients
wan
grisette
Political Protestants
The courage to be an absolute nobody
All people are unconscious egoists
What would an existentialist politics look like?
I am the Unnameable
Asmodeus, Lord of Lust
UGK, Stirner’s Unique and the Laruellian One-in-one – Immanuel Joseph 😁
Power, pleasure, meaning, etc. – all on the menu – what’s your mood!?
Anal sun
testy
Are Shestov & Stirner soulmates?
Just pretend that you’re perfectly relaxed
Child abuse references
Ballsy women
Why did all those actresses thank Harvey?
Everything makes sense if you think long enough about it. That is fate!
Dog-vicar
6.11.22
I need a quick-fix for a long-term problem
Exploring the relationship between the question of being and the history of metaphysics
Walking partner
“Each & every one of his innings is impactful!” – Sky is the limit
The Man of the man award
Citizen Dildo
Can you see this smoking volcano?
Enjoy ~ possess ~ consume ~ absorb ~ exploit
7.11.22
beatnik
deracinated
Apodeictic authority
Omnipresent pious surveillance
Ceaselessly extempore power
Necessarily criminal
Superstitious respect
Wretched stability
Pitiless desecration
Egoistic love
Self-evaluation, self-alienation, self-betrayal
Exploitive, tentative, pragmatic associations
The proprietary thinker
Unconditional self-acceptance, affirmation and assertion!
Perfecting arbitrariness ~ spontaneous self-creation
Grave issues & desperate solutions
I’m dragging you with me into this abstract Hell – am I sorry for it??
I am my own creator and creature
Ego > freedom/criticism; Will/interest/act > character/health/success
‘The people’ represses those (the ascendant self-will of refractory individuals) who raise themselves above its own majesty.
The structures which we built to shelter ourselves from the elements, has now become the individual’s greatest prison!
Imposters of my true self
Identity > vocation
Value > ideals
If I do not stand for myself, then who will?!
Believe it or not, I’m the best professional/expert…… at being Immanuel Joseph!
From revolution to insurrection
Everything & everyone is object/material (interesting/useful or uninteresting/useless) for my appetites
My right to squander myself – I always am as much as I can be.
As you look at the world, so it looks back at you
Conducting oneself according to the logic of one’s own whim
I am not an ego along with other egos… I am the sole ego!
Behold the one. Behold the man. Behold me!
Self-directed, self-contained, self-consuming
Do whatever you feel like, whatever you can via force or wit. And don’t let anything make you think twice!
The abyssal self ~ anata. The inexhaustible, indefinite & limitless being of the unique one – Nothing.
The irreducible contingency of this individual is an incomparable reality that baffles language
Out of my desires, how do I distinguish those I passively absorbed from my context and those which are “really mine”?? Is the world thinking through me or am I the one in control?
Intestate ~ unsettled estate
mandarin
rodomontade
Slavish casuistry
timorous
otiose
recherché
Bowdlerized version
soi-disant
distraint
officious
Being → life → consciousness
Not a single truth endures before me, they are words, nothing but words.
8.11.22
The concrete/sensuous/conscious individual/person/self
The self-mastery of the sovereign individual and the artistry of the will – Choice, resolution & action!
Having the courage NOT to be a slave of truth
The holy lie is an instrument of the will to power
Capricious thinking & proprietary knowledge
Nietzsche (spiritual aristocrat/Ubermensch) Vs. Stirner (calculating autocrat/Unman) – the Unique One > the Superman!
Sibylline utterances
Vulpine powers
will-o-the-wisp
exigent
gibe, jibe, snide
Internal scission
Spiritual terrorist
Practical solipsist
Fortified ataraxia
Self-satisfaction
Total encounter with nothingness >> absolute existence!
Pious seriousness Vs. Criminal frivolity
I choose/decide/will who I am!
Nothingness as omnipotentiality
Man as a useless passion.
Protagoras & Empedocles
R. W. K. Paterson
Robert Anton Wilson – Quantum Psychology, Discordianism
9.11.22
Nietzsche proclaims the death of GOD, because Stirner had just killed him – this time for good!
Unconditional seriousness Vs. Ultimate unconcern
Self-deception ~ self-prostration
The Unique One Vs. Human nature (Reason-will-love)
This dog can be (my) friend, because he DOESN’T need me! But that one can only be (my) food……
Love lies bleeding in my hands
Running on fumes
Distinguish:
Me (Creator, subject, nothingness)
&
Mine (Creature, object, choices)
From profound theology to profane spirituality
The spirit/self/me is a stomach
Ingenuity ~ folly ~ ingenuity ~ folly
Destroy the Essence
Max Stirner’s Der Einzige and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Master are spiritual brothers
The definitive exemplar of homo irreligiosus
From atheist to anti-theist!
Lorna Doone & Jane Eyre
Priceless ~ worthless
Finite > infinite
Religious conversion ~ suicide ~ global aggression
I AM Nothing
Distinguish:
Pious self-worship
&
Cynical self-interest
My stylist told me to wear this
Who am I to know who I am?
Responsibility outside of morality
Stirner & Sartre ~ UGK & Mahesh Bhatt
The total atheist does not find himself abandoned by GOD (unlike with the existentialist), it is GOD who is abandoned by him.
Going beyond the Most High
A cool & systematic deicide with no remorse or excuse……
Almost all of us shut our ears to the soundless voice that attunes us to the horrors of the abyss
Utterly gratuitous/wanton
Proud ~ joyful ~ lively
Consenting to exist in conscious anticipation of death as my ownmost possibility
Nihilism/Fascism
Compelled to a profoundly noncommittal life
Euphemisms ~ half-truths ~ illusions ~ lies
Self-indiscipline
Suborn ~ incite secretly
Free ~ self-supporting
10.11.22
Addicted to recovery
Drifter meets stranger
Nihil ~ ego ~ nihil – Nothing lies beneath the One beneath the Trinity
Christian >> Anti-Christ >> I!
The rock bottom hides a trap-door that opens out into Heaven
Commitment ~ surrender ~ sacrifice
Void ~ vacuum ~ whirlpool
The general individual
The bodhisattva as backslider
Enchantment >> disenchantment >> NOT re-enchantment!
The pessimist/existentialist as reluctant nihilist ~ the hangover of Being
Man as the hieratic animal is the biggest lie of the Serpent-God
It is easy to imagine someone like Stirner’s criticisms against these thinkers/gurus……
Nihilism is not to be ingeniously evaded or heroically surmounted, but realistically willed & lived
Positive (thesis) + negative (anti-thesis) → neutral (synthesis)
Theism/love >> atheism/hate >> nihilism/indifference
Nothing is NOT what it may seem like
Anti-nihilism ~ the parched man’s mirage of an oasis in the desert
What if the carnal instinct for self-enjoyment & preservation, is ultimately identical with the spiritual impulse toward truth (living according to the real)?
From the chosen (by GOD) people to the chosen (by me) un-faith
Welcome to Viceland: Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream! 😁
We can’t help positing impossible goals for ourselves, but some (fortunately/successfully) give up before they give in……
The existentialist continually recoils from the void which he forces himself to confront
FUCK consistency!
Philosophy of disloyalty
Always fleeing but never escaping
Just do whatever you feel like, and cheat the consequences as far as you can. See how far you can get away with it!
Non-commitment to commitment → Commitment to non-commitment
Spectatorship ~ relativism – from passion to detachment
Getting lost in the supine anonymity of the mass
What happens if you (further) concentrate absynth?
Holding out
A life of permanent inconsequence
Interim/fractured nihilism
How would Ray Brassier respond to Max Stirner?
Self-partiality
Egoism – the Copernican revolution is valid & relevant ONLY for natural/physical/hard science, NOT for spirituality/philosophy/religion
The natural order & metaphysical chaos
Narcotic nightmare ~ repulsive pleasures
What would happen if you started living without any mirrors?
Choosing not to live Vs. Not choosing to live
Stirner & Die Freien ~ Bataille & Surrealism ~ Lautreamont & Decadence
What happens when you strip reality of all the dream-layers? Nakedness – innocence or scandal?
From reflections to coincidences
Free, to be equally & extremely terrible & tender
A no one in a somebody
Have you ever heard a song where the singer actually cries? “Sick & Disgusting” by Beartooth. But if everything is just a “sick joke”, then why label anything a “sick joke” anymore? Nihilism!
Nothing > everything
The man without character
Stultifying influence
I consume, therefore I exist
11.11.22
Today, I saw my father fall, and it reminded me of my mother’s fall……! 😶
Is this what you call “trauma”??
Opening up new horizons for interminable analyses
The discourse of the Other
My whistling in the glowing dark and the indistinct whisperings in “The Empty Man”
12.11.22
The human as the self-conscious (body of the) void
No objective reality, therefore no inherent value
A portrait of disturbing candour and convincing detail
The nihilist/egoist is (forced to be) a hypocrite, to survive in this world…!
Self-consistent hypocrisy
Unique ~ exclusive ~ isolated
infrangible
Metaphysical transcendence and artificial solitude
Formal acceptance and free appropriation of my original situation
Affirmation of absolute non-communication
Unselfish ~ obliged ~ possessed
gull (v.)
Medical morality & political prescriptions
Maturity, like virtue, turns out to be conformity
Can’t you see that (your) antinomianism ultimately leads to (my) nihilism?
Distinguish Amorality & Immorality
All versions of the ideal self need to go
pabulum
piratical
blandish
Non-entity
Noosphere
Take hold and take what you require! With this, the war of all against all is declared.
Give a wide berth to each other, or else you’ll end up with M-A-D (mutually assured destruction)
CFNM
Women use emotional/sentimental/moral blackmail as a weapon to counter the brute strength of men. And it works alright!
Pure nothingness ~ perpetual transcendence
You cannot devour me, I will explode you!
Heal ~ correct ~ punish ~ condemn
The esoteric source and exoteric identity
There are only 2 kinds of people – the dying (by slow spiritual suicide) and the living (by sudden social suicide)
I am my own proprietor and property
Collective action is a contradiction
Distinguish: Will-power & Self-control
Liberate ~ unleash ~ dissipate
SFG – I am Amanda Quail and you are all James Lasombra. Yes?
My power is my property. My power gives me property. I myself am my power, and through it I am my property.
Justified or unjustified, that does not concern me.
Becoming a leader of the nations is no different or better than dying as an addict…… In fact, the latter might be more authentic!
Am I not the best/greatest male gynecologist?! 🤪
Pity as a subtle/covert form of power-play
Communication is nothing but camouflaged control?!
What fantasies do pornstars have? Are these tattoos “actual demons” they’ve encountered (in visions)?
Is sobriety also a trance? In fact, isn’t it the most powerful, since it’s also the most ubiquitous and insidious?
Is drugs one of the most powerful factors in human history? What is the difference or similarity between drugs, medicines, food and religion?
Blank Bimbo
bae
13.11.22
Possess = use = abuse
I do whatever I can & want, for sustenance & pleasure
The pan-omnivorous species
Acquiescence ~ assistance
There is ONLY 1 true living GOD! 😎
“The desire for being-in-itself – man is a useless passion who loses himself in vain……” – Sartre.
“Ha ha ha ha!” – Stirner
“What is the question?” is THE question!
All I’ve got is insane
Nothing IS what it seems
From “Do What you are” to “Be who you are”
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