Month: March 2023

20.2.23

How do I upgrade (myself) from here?? 🤔 Stagnation becomes more of a problem at advanced levels…?
Transmarginal zone
Demagination, delanguizing, dethinking

Psychotic longing & breakthrough
The whirlpool of time
Empty prophets

Astral embodiment
But nothing happens……….
Debauched mystics

Are the royal highway and the dead-end street the same place/route?
Heretical shortcuts
The legitimacy of limitlessness

The seduction of madness
Fatal illumination
un-worlding/de-selfing

Faulty attachments
Are “liberation” & “dissolution”, synonyms or antonyms?!
Spiritual placenta

Illusory obligations
Ties, cares & desires
The love of detachment; the striving for perfect passivity

Nameless, featureless depth that is (my) identity
False possessions
Primal Principle

Ossified relations, polarised dynamics
The truth of/in the desert
Spiritualization ~ interiorization

Plotinian/Eckhartian
Subjectification Vs. Objectification
Which world do we live in, and how many are there?

Pretentiously ethereal “evacuation”
Fictional counterpart/faecal variant
Slothrop & Roquentin

Godawful shockwave of shit
Anti-solar, sub-ocean elementary space
Eery sine-waving light

Gruesome mystery, vaguely religious, meaningful nonsense
Intermezzo
dingleberry

billet
kindling (n.)
Undulating mountains of debris

The consumptive text and textual consumption
Don Caravaggio
Tsunami tunnel

The greater plan
Dead rhythms
The body has many clocks

Natural rituals
Sad militants
Experience books

Hot takes
Dark Deleuze
Cynical ideology

Radical academia
Wish fulfillment
Tikkun & Invisible Committee

Ill-will & ressentiment
French collective
Critical corporealities

From protest to riot
The ethics of transformation
Reading group

The politics of imperceptibility
Abusing online platforms
Techno-exploits

Mad/Black territories

21.2.23

cometic
unblushing
auto-da-fe

The solipsistic alchemist
Sparkling putrescence
The suicide-(of the)provocateur

Why (do you want to read) August Strindberg’s diary??
Ordinary people & great tragedies!
Critical heritage

marginalia
Taste, creativity & criticism
The worth of (registering) incomprehension

The cool psychologist & the passionate flagellant
ineffaceable
knickerbockers, breeches

charwoman; wet nurse
roseate shimmer
fjord; sexton

pari passu
whalebone, baleen
perpetuum mobile

Gallic
Will I turn into a pious coward just before I die?!

22.2.23

tout court
tuché
I > subject

je/moi
Distinguish: Metonymy & Metaphor
Identitary transformation

preclusion
The material/body as the impossible (ineffable/inaccessible) immediacy
Infantile/colloquial (non-philosophical) first names

contra-dictio in adiecto
The interiority of the body
Location of resistance

Topos of critique
Asymmetry, impasse & escape
assujettisement

The soul is the body’s prison!
The law’s auto-transgression
Foucauldian Power ~ Lacanian Law

How is power transformed from disciplinary effect to revolutionary force?
Identifying the continuity behind the changes
Stable instance, not eternal substance

Corporeal continuity Vs. Transformative subjectivity
Self-imposed ideological control in particular discourses
Unilateral auto-affirmation

Unmediated/radical/irrevocable solitude
Biological rhythm Vs. Universal clock
hyoscine/scopolamine

Donald Crowhurst
Creative mathematics
Cosmic Integral

Zero point and absolute nihilism
This is actually NOT as spectacular/weird as you might believe
Why do I have these dreams which have a very nasty aftertaste!? Or should I be asking, HOW, instead??

Hyper-reflexion
Unreally Real!
Nothingness/death/evil as mirror of being/life/good

Senseless truths
Game Day – “…maybe we won!”
Are perception & illusion, friends or enemies? 🤪

The pleasures of insight, and the insights of pleasure
“The mad-mystic is not assaulted by images, but rather assaults the images himself.” This reminds me of my comment about “me swallowing Evil”, in contrast to Altizer’s experience of “being swallowed by Satan”…… Joseph Vs. Amos
Holy of holies ~ Folly of follies

The instructed priest is advised by diversions
Holy tri-unity – philosophy (theory/study), theology (practice/ethics) & religion (experience/mysticism)
Specialist events

Physi(ologi)cal mysticism
Traditional doctrine & authentic knowledge – love or hate?
Man= 101-101

de-script-ion
Anata (Buddhism) ~ creative nothingness (Stirner) ~ the cosmic blackness of the isolated One (Laruelle)
Pornography as the image-ladder

The sensual imagination & abstract thought
Infernally animated micro-operations
Blindness ~ blackness ~ blankness

Pure im(per)manence
The neutral/waking/trance zone
Fundamental instability

Ecstasy → astonishment → perplexity
Deceptive calculations

23.2.23

Deendayal Upadhyaya
BJP in Tamil Nadu

24.2.23

Socialist entrepreneur
Statesman-pretender
சூராரைப் போற்று

ஜெய் பீம்
Elected autocracy
Distinguish government & ruling party

The wheel of fortune
Heroine ~ heroin
misremembering

All our successes are swallowed up in fundamental & ultimate failure!
Focus on living each day fully… And death will take care of itself.

Nothing “means” anything! (and vice-versa?) 😜
From nihilism to a-nihil-ation
The white is an effect of the Black, but the Black does NOT cause the white.

25.2.23

Distinguish sill & pane
Cultural calendar
soroptomist

ரௌத்திரம் பழகு
What is the relationship between literature & journalism
Celebrated judgment

Principled conversations on contentious issues
Public issues & personal introspection
Privileged protection of provocative art

The author & society; the society & the author
The state, culture & artist
Revolutionary Vs. Reactionary

A gestalt combining of partial paradigms
A contradictory context in flux
Never univocal

Self-fashioning
Legal interpretation & the literary imagination
The violence of the pen

In the courtroom, the judge becomes the author!
The 300 Ramayans
Women, Dalit & tribal writers

Translation is the language of democracy
Manto
Lamp-lighting ceremony
Misinformation ~ ignorance

Photo-op(portunity)
Proud Chenaiite
Women consuming Shahrukh

The outsider superstar
The failed promises of liberalization
Middle-class mobility

Emotional taxes & personal toolkit
The author in the text; the text in the author
Who said, “Never meet your heroes!”?

chic-lit
Thank you for putting me to good use
Hypermasculine space & the female boss

Feminist economics
Narrativizing the data
Personalizing research

The political will requires social will
Future nostalgia
Illustrated lecture

Interdisciplinary media practices
Archiving rebellions
Recording as creating

Constructing the ideal citizen
Queering forms
Modernized rajas

The home as one’s extended body
Gandhian Vs. Nehruvian
Cinematic archive

Archetypes of architecture
Working through different registers
Material media

Films Division
The politics of Hindi
Fake found footage

1952 – the first international film festival of India
High modernism
Prosthetic as aid for transformation

Who is Gaur Gopal Das’s guru?
Rajgruha
Transparent clothing

Pleasure palace
The planned city
Abstract spaces

Refugee colony
Measure ~ divide
Fossilized forms of living

Problematic slippages in well-meaning utopian thought
The naming of streets
The paternalistic gaze of the activist

Uneasy empathy
Silence on film
The kitchen ballet

Dalits aligned with Shiv Sena
Sarcastic rhetoric
Gateless gated colonies

Mixing textures to disturb – noise overlay
Opening the can of worms – ageing
Liberal & conservative forces within the same family

Willing to work with imperfection – always a work in progress
Self-analysis
Incomplete tales

Women & borders; Nature & language
Incomplete stories & surprising interventions
Partition museum

Godly digging
Borders invite crossing
Minute everyday triggers

Shallow grave ~ sand tomb
Prem Chand
Booker Prize for Hindi novel

This is not that Geetanjali Shree
The eclectic moment
Inter-vernacular

Dissenting friendship
Mother > vessel/vassal
Sports writing

True crime
Cutting off the noise and thinking for yourself
Short-cricuiting the official narrative

Breaking out of the permanent present
Corporate Vs. Nationalist agendas
Social distance & room to breathe

The argumentative audience
Storm in a teacup
Michael Atherton – cricketer & journalist

NK – there’s an amateur in the pro tennis tour!
In the course of a day’s play……
Cannibalizing the craft

Plagiarizing ~ recycling
The journalist as thinker!
Sources of income & recognition

Independent coverage
The euphonic sentence
Maybe that’s what I did…?

Bharat Sundaresan
The Punjabi spirit of service
Crisis & humor

Zafarnama
The moral authority of the defeated man
P. Sainath refuses Padma Bhushan

A people’s history
We need their stories in order to better script our own
The Indian jawan is a farmer in uniform

Mallu Swarajyam
A dangerous revolutionary @ 11
Bhagat Singh Jugiya

How many genocides & crimes against humanity have gone unpunished, or even remembered?!
Wife-beating as national sport
Housa bhai

Underground government
The forest satyagraha of adivasis
Shobaram Geherwa

Great men seem to be the cause of revolutions, but the common people themselves are!
Freedom > independence
How does a Dalit choose between Gandhi & Ambedkar?

We used to make bombs
Economic inequality in India in 2023 ~ 1921 situation!
Drawing room outrage

Late Victorian holocausts
Victoria’s original secrets
People’s archive of rural India

World Press Freedom Index
Freedom of exit
Savarkar was a freedom fighter until 1911

Mercy petitions to the British
Bad hagiographies
The duty to embrace your freedom struggle

History cannot be invented
Amish Bhagat

Decision/sufficiency ~ thought/judgment

From radical orthodoxy to radically heterodox ~ from belief to heresy
Blind spontaneity ~ Vision-in-Black
Always-already-in-life

நான்-philosophy
The lived-without-life

26.2.23

From hermetologists to hermeticians
Distinguish secret & mystery
The positive essence of darkness & silence

screed

27.2.23

The radical autonomy of indeterminate matter
Equalizing all forms of thought
Bootlegging/hacking/pirating theory

Collective intimacy
Squandered potential
Who I want to be > who I can be or who I should be

The totality of lived experience Vs. Philosophical universals
Extracting the essential/kernel
Non-sufficiency ~ openness

Emancipatory totalization
Weird monism
Inalienable/indivisible One

idempotence
Fascist revolutionary
The One is absolutely impoverished (from language, history, sexuality & power) – devoid of all empirical content

Ariadne’s thread
The minority principle
Given-without-givenness

The One relativizes/suspends both philosophy & science
Life determines consciousness and not the other way around
Irreversible causality

Unilateral duality >> unified theory >> quantum entanglement
Stop me if I’m rambling!
A new destiny for thought

Immanence ~ autonomy
Democratic gnosis
Non-system – neither order nor chaos!

Funny mistranslation at the theory center
A playground for thought ~ a construction site using debris/wreckage as building materials
Can you hear Jeremy Smith literally huffing & puffing as he tries to explain Non-philosophy!? 😁

The philosophical double – mimetic rivalry, etc.
Cloning is non-additive & non-subtractive
philo-fi

Subject-positions
Red stars in the black universe – academics, mystics, heretics, adolescents & militants
The passion for the Remote

A fusion of theory with the masses
Research-badges & firewalls
Non-authoritative philosophy

Generic science
Oraxiom ~ oracle + axiom
Alternate instantiations

1.3.23

Can I come to your place?…I wanna be alone for a while!
The One is, not (self-)conscious, but it sees.
The One does NOT want to know, or need to have

Acausal relation
I ~ The first person singular pronoun is (one of) the “first name(s)” of the Real (Laruelle) ~ “Who am I?” is a nonsensical question! (UGK)
Interdisciplinary >> (transdisciplinary >>) indisciplinary

Pessimism & heresy as intersecting practices
Reinvigorating theoretical violence, against the hyper-normalization of capitalism
Non-commutative ontology

From letters & numbers to images & sounds…… to…… Abstract art?!

2.3.23

Have you ever noticed how beautiful your own fingers are!?
I did the heroic dose, and thereby became the villain! Although you vomited… Yes, but only through the mouth 😜
autophagy

3.3.23

From conversion to mutation
Guattari as a mad scientist rather than a philosopher – a Laruellian enthusiast!
I want to be(come) a philosopher. I want to be great (or at least good) at, at least one thing in this life. Suddenly, a strong urge to ACT/DO or achieve/accomplish… But then, it is promptly killed off by the other voice:

WHY?!? Why not just be a nobody? Why not just randomly move from one thing to another, with no rhyme or sense? Just be a mutable & shapeless void that is moved, and moves, from the interaction of inner forces & outer factors……
Memory ~ recognition ~ cage
I want to live in such a way that the world would be radically & permanently changed, because I lived in it! Ha ha ha ha ha……….

Is the clock just looking at itself through me?
Pure perception
Sensation sans selection

Why is just living not enough? Why do I hate this empty feeling?
Life Vs. Knowledge ~ Truth Vs. Error ~ Power Vs. Imitation ~ Joy Vs. Desire
Bliss is NOT what you imagine it to be, from here……!

Awakening, without following or deciding
Monkey-man and imatatio dei
Magical thinking

Distinguish skepticism and agnosticism
Truth as (just) a passing thought……! 🤪
The narrative habitual personality Vs. The spontaneous unlimited self

When the illusion becomes real, the real becomes illusion
I’m just trying not to torture myself, at least for the next 15 minutes
If I just forgot about what I can do or ought to be, what I really want would slowly show itself……!?

Self-induced hypnotic trance of dogmatic credulity
Ego-trips & cash-cows galore
Hifalutin malarkey

Tribal customs gradually become psychological needs
Fool’s paradises

4.3.23

From psycho-somatic to somato-psychic
bazball
Dimmu Borgir

Tennis TV subscription
From WHITE (world) to RED (passion) to BLACK (death)

5.3.23

“Don’t panic… It’s all gonna be okay.” – NEVERMORE!
How does someone like UG practise the force-of-thought, cloning, etc.?

6.3.23

apodictic
Self-verifying experience
Innatist position

The (supposedly) ahistorical core
Habitual & familiar facts masquerading as eternal & universal truths
Ordinary language philosophy

Depth grammar
phatic
Limit language

countermand
remiss
unconscionable

asiety
screed
Ascriptions of certainty

immure
wraith
The use/value/meaning of words

Quasi-formal reconstruction
Syntactics & semantics

7.3.23

Polyphonic theoretical practice ~ collective assemblage of enunciations
The Guattari Effect
Ontological mutations & conjunctural situations

ampliative
The resonance of non-concepts
innervate

Autonomist micro-politics
Oceanic anthropology
Institutional analysis

Experiments-in-the-making
Speculative cartography
The production of subjectivity

Hypercomplex multiplicities
The impatient
The modalities of group-being

D&G
The clandestine subversion of semiotic sufficiencies in an incipient era
Tenured radicalism

nugatory
Populism & transgression
The libidinal economy

Deconstruction >> proliferation
Unconscious enjoyment
Loki Vs. Thanos – how & when does transgression become evil?

Child sexuality
Georgetown, Penang
Molecular revolution (in Brazil)

Chaosmosis
Transversality & ambient manifold
Include news, sports, docu-science (history, travel, wildlife, etc.) to your regular watching diet (along with films, serials, music videos, porn, etc.)

Can I play carrom board, table-tennis, etc. alone?
Wandering as a tourist, in my own neighborhood and city
Diagrammatic ramifications

Should I learn how to swim or not!? Fuck…… Why is it so hard to actually get up and do something??
Blockages in the socius
Modifying the equilibrium of forces, to gain access to a new montage

Exiting language via empty signifiers
The polyphony of the singular-common
Guattari Vs. Lacan

Real experiments that implicate, explicate & complicate the concrete situation
Sensible materiality
Problematizing models

Dispraxis & heterogenesis
Guattari as proto-Laruellian practitioner
Relating concepts with circumstances, percepts & affects

Theoretical constructivism as real-life experiment in chaoticizing philosophy
The artifice-Real
Douanier Rousseau

A cheerful researcher lacking a well-qualified domain
Desire-affirming → rupture with discursivity & pictoriality
The becoming-Child

In- & over-human processual operators of intensification
Non-localizable powers
Opening onto new universes of reference

The institutional programmer of collective equipment
Mutualist education

8.3.23

Just because you consume all this weird/crazy shit, DOESN’T mean you’re radical/tough/great, Joe!
line-cook, meterman
corsage

joist
slush
sabot

palette-knife
openwork
tracery

9.3.23

Present ~ alert; Open ~ sensitive; Willing ~ flexible
The nebulous waking zone
Fascinations & illuminations as temptations

Sobriety as hypermadness
Merkabah, herkalot, Ashkenaz
Remembrances of a religio-maniac

The nasty divine
Suffer being misunderstood
Anti-mystical medications

Iconoclastic imagination
Are unemployed & self-employed synonyms?
Are pessimistic and lazy synonyms?

The mad-mystical image assault and the seduction of language
Non-ostentative experience
Just as the mystics’ experience of GOD leads them to faith, my experience of the absence of GOD leads me to unbelief…

I am distinguished – born in August – since my birth was prophesied, and I arrived like a messiah, shouldn’t I use this miracle to test the limits of possibility, and see if I am really supernatural…? But what if I am wrong in this grandiose delusion?? What have I got to lose – this wretched puny existence?! But if I am right, then I have everything to gain!

In order to be correct, one must first become strict!
Silence as transcendence
How to grow psilocybin & mescaline?

echolalia
Everything everywhere all at once
Vaslav Nijinsky

Heaven is only for those who don’t panic & opt out of this endless descent into Hell!
Repressed memories ~ prophetic insights ~ dream plots ~ quantum realities
Are Amalraj & Laruelle friends in Hell?

How does it feel like to continue in this state of corpse-like deadness for so long? How much longer can you stay here? Maybe I can take breaks and keep returning?
Hidden ~ potential ~ unreal
Free associating lines of flight & escape routes, tangentially…

Who is Agent Swarm?
Metaphorica Vs. Multimundiana

10.3.23

Special operations – add ultimation and consummation to cloning and dualysis
unition
order-words

Man as the non-consistent, but identical (not unitarian) Real
The hyperphilosophical crown
Real disalienation & transcendental dis-illusion

The Christ-subject is by essence in-struggle
Hell is never distant!
The non-relation of Man & GOD

miss-ion
The in-version of theological incarnation
STOP needing GOD, or desiring (to become) the Superman

A theorematics of mystic-fiction
An anti-idealist axiomatics
Scientific (experimental/practical) abstraction of the philosophical double

Philosophy → Non-philosophy → Non-standard philosophy
Matrix ~ rhizome ~ chora
The non-deductive chains of a quantum hermeneutic Vs. Sufficient logic

Future perfect
Liberative indeterminacy
Aleatory readings

Conceptual collision in the particle accelerator of Non-philosophy
acception
Religionizing Vs. Quantizing

The reductionist constitution of simple classical universes – beyond scientism, religionism, politicism, aestheticism, etc.
Regional ontologies
Man’s quantum leap out of Hell, via the transformation of its vicious circles, by colliding them together

Was Neils Bohr influenced by Kierkegaard?!
pre-prior genericity
under-foundation

Superposition & undulation > Textual deconstruction
De-mathematicizing Quantum Theory – substantial function → stylistic approach
FROM science-made TO science-in-the-making

Encounter & variation
Breaking out of the enclosure by the continuous transformation of problems
“Not a matter of reaching the point where one no longer says I, but the point where saying I or not, no longer has any importance”

AGAINST THE FANTASM OF DIFFICULTY: THE “PARADOX OF NON-PHILOSOPHY”
Henology
Probabilizing

philo-rigid
Metaphoric extrapolation
Internal relativisation & extension

11.3.23

BBC reporting on the BBC controversy over Gary Linekar – is it even possible to be objective??
The plausibility of irrationalist epistemology
Critique of homo economicus

Affinities & intensities
Smooth democratic unfreedom
Movementist praxis

kraken
Misrecognizing the immediate
Value-relevance

Simplifying & stylizing reality with unique coherencies

13.3.23

Imaginative biographer
bugbear
Copybook maxim

From value judgments to pure description
There is nothing to understand!
alacritous

There is no difference between subject & object. There is no separation between stimulus & response.
Vision > seeing > seer

I have no mouth and I must scream
Dark Enlightenment
Insane enjoyment

Your attempts to escape are sinking you deeper into the hole!
Culpable victims
The state of unknowing ~ I’m not talking about the unknowable

The fear of the known coming to an end
Distinguish: Objective genitive & Subjective genitive
Philosophical rebellion Vs. Non-philosophical heresy

Sufficiency is the limit to be escaped ~ enclosure
There is no right place to be
You would be surprised by how unsurprised I was

The Image of thought
Atheological gnosticism
The One as exception to the All

State philosophy & Royal science
Non-hierarchical relativisation
From scientism to non-standard philosophy

Affecting the visible world, by seeing, with my eyes closed
I, the philosopher, am lying
Instead of theorizing the outside, start theorizing FROM the outside

De-regiment
Performance over signification
Asignifying rupture

How would Laruelle or Deleuze theorize someone like UG?
Self-cancelling philosophical hallucination
From determination-in-the-last-instance to indetermination in the pre-primary instance

Self-imposed constraints & pre-established limits
Unsuturing thought from any one (or two) truth procedure(s)
The liberating & stultifying effects of Marxism

Future anterior
Predicting the past
We must explain the work by extending it

Does GOD not play dice?
Determinist discursivity
From religion to science (to art) to…?

Choratic composition
Harmful abstract phantasm
Latour’s AiME (An enquiry into Modes of Existence)

Quantum Christ
Mixed media
Entangled matters & multiplied concerns

Spurious exoticism
Making a more realistic narrative thinkable
Emancipatory master-narrative

Human & non-human assemblages of different scales
Actor Network Theory (ANT)
Heterogenous associations

Comparative anthropology of Moderns
Connections with other collectives
Felicity & infelicity conditions

Category mistakes
The many obscure sources of reason
Digital scenography – a tailor-made interface for a thought collaborative

Stagecraft ~ theatre design
The future of reading

14.3.23

Entitled opinions
The most fateful person in human history
Google word coach

The genius apostle who championed the gospel of ressentiment
Why do(n’t) I have great ambitions?
The 5th Gospel

Semiotic interventions
Nag Hammadi gnosis
Laughter Vs. Cynicism

Season of mist
Metaphysical traditions
Tragedy as (supreme) wisdom

Tunnel-maker
Extremely demanding concept
Sacramental festival ~ national ritual ~ public sacrifice

No spirituality without liturgy
Jesus the elitist Vs. Paul the universalist
Materialist theology

The young specialist
Lucky genius
A new seriousness

Heroic music Vs. Entertainment principle
Staging the suffering & dismembering of GOD
Shared moment of spec(tac)ular truth

Admiring & criticizing myself as a youth
Non-Olympian God
Song of the high noon

“12 Rules for Life” (Peterson) Vs. “You Must Change Your Life” (Sloterdijk)
Utilitarianism is useless
Critical transformation of deception into good use

Kafkaesque parable
The artistic transfiguration of unlivable truths
The absolute narcissism of GOD

Meditating on (one’s own) godliness
Finding a way to combine suffering & knowledge into creativity
How do I fall in love with (my own) life?

Theory of the future ~ the future of theory
The eternal recurrence of Nietzsche’s mother & sister!
Unleashing the energies of affirmation

The Laruellian Nietzsche Vs. The Nietzschean Laruelle
Smiling to oneself
Semi-mad letters

It is very hard to conceive a sane GOD
Divine inner turbulence
Bearing the burden of my divine predicament

Renouncing the will-to-truth
The religion of the earth
There is nothing (left) to say or do

The double stillness of the European ciesta & Indian meditation
Autobiographical gospel
Reappropriating one’s own work

Self-eulogizing
Classical futurism
The blindspots of the prophet

Vertical tension without a higher realm
Will-to-growth
Rocket spirituality

Immortal ideal
Creating a new market for your brand
The regime of the last man

The drive to distinction in an egalitarian world
Action-teacher
Making a profession out of danger

Praising the unsuccessful tight-rope walker
“Can you breathe?” – “I don’t want to!”
FROM present open & willing TO immediate, unilateral & unconditional

Unconditional, unreserved & irrevocable
Non-philosophy is the Neither/Nor
Non-philosophy is the None of The Above (NOTA) option

15.3.23

From I am to AM
The human animal as the One
The live body ~ the Real

The Real/One ~ autonomic nervous system; Thought/philosophy ~ cerebral cortex
The Realest picture
agitprop

catfishing

16.3.23

Ossianic
Heine as a German Jew
Aristocratic refugees

Wealthy but troubled background
tallit
feuilleton

seder
hagglers
Constantly fluctuating between boredom & irritation

Renowned forever
Eloquent silence
Annoying cynosure

Religious recrudescence
Constitutional uncongeniality
Reactionary political apostasy

mezuzah
Limbic waters
sidle up

Via infinitiva ~ From “I am drinking tea with sugar” to “Drink sugar tea”, and so on & so on……
Adolfo Fernandez-Zoila
Edmond Jabes

Enigmatic writing
From text to context to pre-text
Pages from the exhumed book

FROM – out of the magical spell – TO – into the mystical vision

17.3.23

Intelligent body
Inverted Platonism
Micro-incarnations
Language particles
Metaphorized physiology
From eclecticism to syncresis
The work of the ground-flesh

Alhumdulillah (Homeland)
Culture Vs. Civilization
Tragedy as truth
The wanderer and his shadow
Animal culture
Speaking animality
Collage novel
Brute imagination
Disanthropic visions
Bestial gestures
The biocentric tradition
UGK ~ the final Nietzsche ~ the huma(nima) ~ anim(al-hum)anl!

18.3.23

Circular intertextual relations
Ontological méconnaissance
Signification → rebiologization
No-subject
From ignorance to indifference
Becoming hume-an ~ the sapient animal
Instinctual epistemology
Anti-anthropocentric revolution
The work of art as inimitable expression
Man as creatural as opposed to cultural
Guattari Vs. Lacan
Distinguish predator & master/demagogue/sadist – from domination to cruelty
Antihuman, antidemocratic, supramoral sentiments
(1) criticality and openness (2) unlearning and relearning (3) overcoming and becoming – Nietzsche’s triple dialectic
Pedagogy, mimesis & influence – smashing out of the hall of mirrors
Natural force ~ bio-power
“I want (to make you) you (to) desire what I desire”
Zarathustra has NO disciples
Sur(realistic)-decadence
Vivo, ergo cogito
Effete intellectual traditions Vs. Chthonic religions

tessera
Falangism
anknüpfung
ephemerid
meretricious

Distinguish: Doing nothing & Waiting
Trying to impress people, by looking like you’re indifferent

19.3.23

chinoiserie
menagerie
ferity
synecdochic
ocellus
divestiture – (all of) culture is bourgeois!
Ur-theilung

Animal atavism Vs. Pornology
Natural cruelty Vs. Cultural violence
Anti-representational art
Libidinal economy Vs. Symbolic order
The bestial is autotelic (as opposed to reciprocally determined by the other)
The tropological enslavement of Nature to the Human
Biocentrism ~ vitalism?
Uncovering the common deep structure among these thinkers
The technical paradox of biocentric art
The rational(istic) assumptions of conventional realism
Blunting rhetorical force through allegorical readings
Negative prestige
Primordial scandal
From understanding & imagination (possibility) to perception & intuition (actuality)
Aggressive herbivores
Return to Nature – Noble savage Vs. Wild man
The barbarian of the heights
Biocentrism against its myriad doubles – E.g. Fascism, environmentalism, etc.
All domestication is superficial & reversible
Ideological misalliance

Maybe man is the unique animal, because of (the capacity for) individuality

Vanessa Lemm
Margot Norris
Max Ernst

Buy (& use!) non-lethal self-defence weapons

20. 3.23

Medical Humanities
Participatory research

21.3.23

I must confess, I was disappointed by Margot Norris’s animal conservation ethic after her bold foray into the feral nature of human reality (“Beasts of the Modern Imagination”)…!

Philochosis ~ philosophical psychosis

manse
furze

Any further justification for my non-psychological research seems, to me, unnecessary

22.3.23

Each person is a separate species. There is NO mankind!

23.3.23

From Positionality to posture!

24.3.23

Inorganic life
Neutral eroticism

26.3.23

“I am a stone” (Demon Hunter) + “I am broken too” (Killswitch Engage)

Militant women
Free lovers
I’m broken too – in all the right places – just like you!

27.3.23

Radical individualism + human extinction ≈ Nihilistic egoism!

The solecism of the wise

Your whole life is one long failed suicide attempt

allotrope
congeries
blutsbrüderschaft
Astyanax
philosophicalish
extirpate
hacktivism
créatrice

Ursula & Gudrun ~ sisters-in-love

The new Bing
Erotic quarreling
Underworld knowledge → mutual hellish recognition
Fatal consonance + living strife
Organic memory
Return to Nature Vs. Cultivation of animality
Memory, forgetting & promise
Political friendship
Animal virtues
Justice as gift-giving
The rebeginning of culture
New preface
Life Vs. Truth
Pictorial thinking & intuited metaphors
Affirmative biopolitics
Pluralization
Tristan Garcia’s “Letting Be and Making Powerful”
Catabasis, anabasis & nemesis
Inclusive possiblism
Distinguish: pouissance & pouvoir
Liberality & effectivity
Minimal, equal, distinct, common existence
Non-hegemonic thought
Resistant metaphysics
The permanent formation of all beings
MixedX.com

Atomizing solidarity

I eat chicken heart, but not the gizzard

What if the finger has nothing to do with the moon – it DOESN’T have to, in order to point accurately…

The missing link between the physiological and the spiritual is the inorganic!!!

I don’t even know how I feel about this