In contrast to the discourse of reality and rationality, which bets on the fact that there is something (some meaning) rather than nothing, and which, in the last analysis, wants to be built on the preservative notion of an objective and decipherable world, radical thought bets on the illusion of the world. This thought…
Why wouldn’t there be as many real worlds as there are imaginary ones?Why would there be only one real world?Why such a mode of exception? In reality, the notion of a real world existing among all other possible worlds is unimaginable.It is unthinkable, except perhaps as a dangerous superstition. We must stay away from…
I’ve almost finished watching Endgame by Samuel Beckett. The play is my sole exposure to Beckett. I knew of his reputation as a playwright. I was asked why I chose this play. I wanted to take a “deep dive” into waters which required that I swim or else fail. “Drown” is the term, isn’t…
Say: I am real, this is real, the world is real, and nobody laughs. But say: this is a simulacrum*, you are only a simulacrum, this war is a simulacrum, and everybody bursts out laughing. With a condescending and yellow laughter, or perhaps a convulsive one, as if it was a childish joke or…
It is early. There is no sunrise yet. Wondering what to write. Yesterday I began reading an essay by Jean Baurdrillard. The essay is entitled Radical Thought. Here is a short paragraph: The belief in truth is part of the elementary forms of religious life. It is a weakness of understanding, of common-sense. At…
‘ I receive a weekly email newsletter from Professor Scott Galloway. Galloway is a professor in the New York University Stern School of Business. He is a podcast host, and entrepreneur. The professor is philosophically astute, able to see the “big picture.” For today I will excerpt some of Galloway’s words from his No…
THE SOIL…is the great connector of lives,the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by whichdisease passes into health, age into youth,death into life. Without proper care for it we can have nocommunity, because without proper carefor it we can have no life. — Wendell Berry
I have little to say this morning. That is as it should be. Life is replete with conflict, language games, reportage contending for the apex of one’s attention. Often, better that less or nothing be said, — silence is the condition for reflection, a quieting of awareness so that the dispersed energies of life…
Anything written by Nietzsche is approached with apprehension. By reputation Friedrich Nietzsche is a “bomb thrower,” a nihilist who is responsible for the death of God. On a ‘reputation scale’ from high to low, that would be on the low side. Unaccountably in my late 20s I read Nietzsche’s writing with an open mind, overcoming…
But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child? Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea. Aye, for the game of creating, my…
