Author: Immanuel Joseph

28.3.20

– Non-nude porn

30.3.20

– QRT
Chaitra Sukhladi/Ugadi/Gudi Padwa

– Donate to support the poor, during COVID-19 pandemic & lockdown:
1. *PM-CARES* (Indian government)
80G IT exemption
https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/appeal-to-generously-donate-to-pms-citizen-assistance-and-relief-in-emergency-situations-fund-pm-cares-fund/
2. *World Vision (NGO)*
80G IT exemption
https://www.worldvision.in/WaysToGive/emergency-relief.aspx#scrolltop
3. *United Nations (International)*
No IT exemption in India (?)
https://covid19responsefund.org/
To be paid in USD (use any internationally valid credit card)

2.4.20

– Reschedule:
Today is Wednesday (chores)
Tomorrow is Saturday (rhythm)
Day after tomorrow is Friday (chores)

– Alternate weekly routine:
Sunday – freak
Monday – work/chores
Tuesday – rhythm
Wednesday – freak
Thursday – work/chores
Friday – rhythm
Saturday – freak

Maybe I can alternate this with the usual/current routine…!?

8.4.20

– Life is nothing but the power to die!

– UGK – he has returned to the Garden of Eden, instead of moving forward into the New Jerusalem!
So, according to Christian theology, is he a failure or a success?? Or something else altogether?!

10.4.20

– brio

13.4.20

– tulpa
Sergio Marquina

– mockumentary
deleverage
Prestige TV
screen-time
Barabbas
Passionist

17.4.20

– Bella ciao

13.3.20

– The Independent and Public Spirited Media Foundation (IPSMF)
Pragati

14.3.20

– tessellated
Visual meaning

– Decreation & boredom
The structure of destruction
Art Vs. Aesthetics; Being Vs. Ontology; Passion Vs. Ethics
Demonic creation & divine madness
hyperborean

16.3.20

– Dry forests

17.3.20

– Who is Maynard James Keenan?

– Can sobriety be creative?

– bellwether
belletristic

– “Shout! Shout!
Let it all out,
These are the things I can do without.
Come on, I’m talking to you…

In violent times,
You shouldn’t have to sell your soul.
In black & white, you really really ought to know.
Those wandering minds,
Who took you for a working whore,
Kiss them goodbye!
You shouldn’t have to jump for joy… ”

– The Disturbed Gospel

18.3.20

– There’s a trapdoor at the bottom of the deepest hell that opens straight into the highest heaven!

– TV series:
Our Boys
The Boys

– Movies:
Drug War
Spring Breakers

– Stoned dream
Traumatic pleasures & ecstatic agonies

– I could hear that bird’s cry from within, without any psychosurgery!

21.3.20

– Distinguish:
What I like,
What I want
&
What I need

– Distinguish:
Temperament
&
Mood

– impassive
Passionate pessimist
flailing
Zero-sum game
The experience of dusk

23.3.20

– You have rode the tsunami. Now, meditate (while sitting) on the rumbling volcano!

– Ambient metal
Chō-rän

24.3.20

– No(-no)n-sense

29.1.20

– Mr. Negativiti – becoming a purveyor of evil (the gloomy, the dangerous and the useless)!
Aesthetic violence

– bathetic
totemic

– Movies:
“யுத்தம் செய்”
I don’t agree with Bharadwaj Rangan that this is one of Mysskin’s top 3 films – it’s nowhere near “ஓநாயும் ஆட்டுக்குட்டியும்” & “பிசாசு”.
Extreme conditions >> brutalization of the human, and the humanization of the brutal…!
Was my decision to read a lot of reviews/spoilers before deciding to watch his latest film “Psycho” a good one?
How do I distinguish between me rightly judging a film that I dislike as a mediocre one, and a film that is actually very good (or even great) which I am not sophisticated enough to appreciate? E.g. “துப்பறிவாளன்”
Are surrealism and magical realism the same?
Great filmmakers can & do make bad movies too! 😉

– Mr. Robot (completed series) – recaps from USA Network, YouTube reviews, articles from entertainment/culture websites, interviews with the creator & cast, thematic analysis & philosophical interpretations…

– My life is somewhat like Nick Kyrgios’s temperament nowadays! 🤪

30.1.20

– Is my current lifestyle, or my previous one, more in line with my own (human) nature?
How do I know??
And is there any real/essential “nature” at all in the first place?!

– Chores, spirituality and entertainment
Is it better to have 3 kinds of days, or all 3 kinds of activities on everyday?

1.2.20

– Integrating empirical analysis & radical critique
Reification & alienation
Ideological mystification
Realism & romanticism
borough; burgess
Reading against the grain

3.2.20

– The pastor as confessor
acolyte; lector
The pious poor
ellipsis
collect (n.)

4.2.20

– Addiction as achievement!

5.2.20

– Perverse logic
meretricious
complexification

18.2.20

– Misery porn

20.2.20

– diaphoretic
Naturalized weeds
estival

21.2.20

– CAA, NPR, NRC
Septuagesima, sexagesima, quinquagesima

22.2.20

– Tragic laughter
Spiritual consequences
Anti-humanist anthropology
Unproductive expenditures

– Crucial fascinations:
1. Bonhoeffer (a pacifist) attempts to assassinate Hitler
2. Nietzsche (a nihilist) faints while trying to protect a horse being beaten

24.2.20

– retrenchment

25.2.20

– Critical (introduction & intellectual) biography
malcontents
Stoned spermatozoa
The proximity of opposites
Non-academic thinkers
tabes
lurch
Lecture as public conversation
Screen memory

– Believe-IN the IM-possible

– Was Dostoevsky a Christian?

– familycide

26.2.20

– hendiadys
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswathi
Shivaji Jayanti
International Mother Tongue Day ~ Maha Shivaratri
Meatfare Sunday

– Intensities ~passions ~ sufferings ~ extremities

28.2.20

– Nataraja – dancing on my own grave!

3.3.20

– Flexible skeleton
armature
Negative shape
Foreshortened view
Gestural line
Atmospheric perspective
Linear perspective
Interior space

– Learning how to see

4.3.20

– The mistake I made in the previous retreat (Body-focus) was to allow language back into the game!
The sharing sessions should have been limited to only non-verbal forms of expression & communication ☝🏽

6.3.20

– “I will be right here”

7.3.20

– The celebration of boredom

10.3.20

– Double entendre

– “Ok what’s the ultimate goal
By doing or being in the pursuit of something if it’s makes u happy I totally agree
But if u get lost in the process n find urself unhappy what’s the purpose of it” – XYZ

“To experience life in all its fullness (with no distinction between “positive” & “negative”) and grow in understanding (in-depth and impartial)
Ah! I’m against “happiness” as the goal ❌
What if the lostness is just a realization of one’s current state??” – ABC