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
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