May 2013
9 posts
“The man who wishes to know the “That” which is “thou” may set to work in any one...”
– Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (via ludimagister)
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“Against positivism, which halts at phenomena—“There are only facts”—I would say:...”
– Nietzsche, The Will To Power
“It is not that the potential of self-education has yet to demonstrated, but that...”
– John Taylor Gatto, quoted by Astra Taylor in “The Unschooled Life” (via heteroglossia)
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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“History is irony on the move.”
– Cioran, A Short History of Decay (via ludimagister)
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
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“Vitality in man is proportional to intentionality.”
– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
April 2013
24 posts
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Echoes of echoes. Echoes ad infinitum. Endless movements of myriad echoes. Flowing at different velocities with different intensities. Flowering into shapes unheard of, yet as intimate as death herself. Some much louder in their presence, emphatic, some much quieter and obscure. The exchange of ideas and preservation of secrets, words and songs, television programs and FM modulation,...
Mono no aware →
ludimagister:
Mono no aware (もののあはれ), literally “the pathos of things,” and also translated as “an empathy toward things,” or “a sensitivity to ephemera,” is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō), or transience of things, and a gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing.
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“Short-lived Habits. — I love short-lived habits, and regard them as an...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (via ludimagister)
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“Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (via ludimagister)
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“Eternity is life lived in the intensity of the moment. … Spinoza says ‘sub...”
– Simon Critchley (via ludimagister)
“You become what you give your attention to.”
– The Art of Living by Epictetus (trans. Sharon Lebell)
“The almond trees in bloom: the most we can achieve here is to know
ourselves...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, December 1912-January 1913 (via heteroglossia)
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“What if thought is not born within the human skull, but is a creativity proper...”
– David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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“The real empiricist world is… a world of exteriority, a world in which thought...”
– Deleuze, Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life (via tiredshoes)
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“Spinoza challenged the older philosopher’s segregation of mental substance from...”
– David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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“In Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari create a whole new vocabulary and mode of...”
– Claire Colebrook, Gilles Deleuze (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
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“Thus, much as sedimentary rocks, biological species and social hierarchies are...”
– Manuel DeLanda - The Geology of Morals
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“When you look at these words, you instantly see what they say. As soon as we...”
– David Abram, The Living Language
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“But since our expressive, speaking bodies are for Merleau-Ponty necessary parts...”
– David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium...”
– Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via heteroglossia)
“[L]ife suffocates within limits that are too close: it aspires to manifold ways...”
– Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, Volume I (via tiredshoes)
“Acts are free insofar as they express and resemble the subject, not insofar as...”
– Elizabeth Grosz, Feminism, Materialism and Freedom (via rhizombie)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminster Fuller, an American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist (1895-1983)
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“Popular morality separates strength from the manifestations of strength, as...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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“Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and...”
– Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via heteroglossia)
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“The yes which does not know how to say no (the yes of the ass [the animal which...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
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“Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself....”
– Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (via idiolectern)
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“If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.”
– Gilles Deleuze
March 2013
60 posts
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“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
And when I saw my...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“If desire produces, its product is real. If desire is productive, it can be...”
– Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
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“Let us not, therefore, ask why certain people want to dominate, what they seek,...”
– Michel Foucault, 14 January 1976
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Neurosis is the byproduct of a desiring-machine coded with an infinite loop.
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“Deleuze and Guattari’s plane of nature encompasses both the animate and...”
– John Sellars, “The Point of View of the Cosmos: Deleuze, Romanticism, Stoicism”
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More Notes on Anti-Oedipus: "Individualism" vs...
Individualism as the persistent affirmation of an identity is as far from unique and “free” as any human could possibly be. So-called individualism is merely the systematic, stagnant, and cyclical reproduction of the same limited objects of desire ad nauseam; the construction of a subject defined by tired old categories (man, woman, father, mother, heterosexual, homosexual, etc.). So...
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“Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience.”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (via tabularasae)
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“We believe that narrative consists not in communicating what one has seen but in...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
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“Chaos is defined not so much by its disorder as by the infinite speed with which...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy 1994 (via allthingstumbled)
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Desire and Forgiveness of Debts
To see desire as productive (i.e. as creating instead of lacking) equates to a dismissal of all debt, guilt, fear, and enmity: to see the individual not as trying to acquire something from you, not as trying to destroy you, not as trying to diminish you, but as expressing what they find valuable—to nakedly create themselves before you. And so too, you perceive yourself as such; the...
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“There are moments and, as it were, sparks of the brightest, most ardent fire in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator
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“When anguish and disgust appear in Nietzsche it is always at this point: can...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “The Essence of the Tragic,” Nietzsche and Philosophy (via workandentropy)
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“The beauty of the Universe could be learnt in each soul, could one unravel all...”
– Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Principles of Nature and Grace, 201
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“We are right to speak of repetition when we find ourselves confronted by...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
His Spinoza his showing:
“The knowledge of an effect depends on, and involves, the knowledge of its cause.” (Ethics, On God, Ax. IV.)
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“Indeed our perception and our language distinguish bodies (nouns), qualities...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image
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“[A]round each object that I perceive or each idea that I think there is the...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense
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“Proper to every appearing thing of each perceptual phase is a new empty horizon,...”
– Edmund Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis 