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Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)
According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the
Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)
According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations From Dr. Lawgiverz-2
When the phone rang restlessly, whatever this means, Dr. Lawgiverz was sipping his dry red wine and smoking his hand rolled Havana cigar as if everything in the world was absolutely normal and nothing extraordinary was in progress concerning the
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations From Dr. Lawgiverz-2
When the phone rang restlessly, whatever this means, Dr. Lawgiverz was sipping his dry red wine and smoking his hand rolled Havana cigar as if everything in the world was absolutely normal and nothing extraordinary was in progress concerning the
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis -3
For Lacan there is this solipsistic period of life at the beginning. The subject becomes capable of making a distinction between himself and others after the Narcissistic period of the mirror stage. The subject’s ability to interpret and adapt shows
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis -3
For Lacan there is this solipsistic period of life at the beginning. The subject becomes capable of making a distinction between himself and others after the Narcissistic period of the mirror stage. The subject’s ability to interpret and adapt shows
Jacques Rancière – The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing (via V£R$O)
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which
Jacques Rancière – The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing (via V£R$O)
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (3) – From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis
From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis With Deleuze the Cartesian mind-body dualism has been replaced by body-language dualism. Without being too insistent about it at this stage I would like to hint at where the relationship between these dualisms is heading.
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (3) – From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis
From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis With Deleuze the Cartesian mind-body dualism has been replaced by body-language dualism. Without being too insistent about it at this stage I would like to hint at where the relationship between these dualisms is heading.
Artaud, Deleuze and The Will to Nothingness
I close the eyes of my intelligence, and giving voice to the unformulated within me, I offer myself the sense of having wrested from the unknown something real. I believe in spontaneous conjurations. On the paths along which my blood
Artaud, Deleuze and The Will to Nothingness
I close the eyes of my intelligence, and giving voice to the unformulated within me, I offer myself the sense of having wrested from the unknown something real. I believe in spontaneous conjurations. On the paths along which my blood
Alain Badiou – The Subject of Art
My Father was accustomed to say, “we must begin by the beginning.” So, I must begin this lecture about the subject of art by its beginning. But, what is this beginning? I think we have to begin with the oldest
Alain Badiou – The Subject of Art
My Father was accustomed to say, “we must begin by the beginning.” So, I must begin this lecture about the subject of art by its beginning. But, what is this beginning? I think we have to begin with the oldest
Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.
Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives
If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.
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