I anticipate reading The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche. The introduction is written by Walter Kaufmann, the translator. Kaufmann mentions that Nietzsche was greatly influenced by the writings of New England transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Curious to understand the substrate of Nietzsche’s sense of himself and of his world I downloaded a segment of…
A gray rainy spring day… I do not remember turning off the alarm on the bedside radio, but who else could have managed? Thus, I rose one hour later than is my custom. How much of my life amounts to actions of which I have no memory? I am surprised by effects which seem…
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head….
Through morality the individual is instructed to be a function of the herd and only to attribute value to himself as a function. Freedom assumes, if not the individual, at least life is not necessary as a value. It assumes therefore that one place one’s life at stake (it is not necessary) at the…
A being is a closed pathway. This engages in that direction. Each being is suspended over the infinite possibility that it had of not being. It perceives an ensemble of possibilities not occurring as possibilities for existence other than it. –excerpt On Nietzsche, Notes by Georges Bataille p. 319 This particular combination that I…
What kind of immanence or transcendencedo lovers attainthat lacerates themwhile uniting them? MORAL VALUE IS THE OBJECT OF DESIRE. On this topic I am speaking of “undefined existence”Desire is sometimes for a defined object, sometimes…Opposition God, beloved (transcendent, defined)to nothingness, feminine nakedness… –excerpt On Nietzsche, Notes by Georges Bataille, p. 307 Decided to “sleep…
Intrigued with the exhibit of AI art on display at Waterstreet Studios I returned on Saturday morning to have a measured look at the pieces offered for appreciation. I took my time, pausing before each work to absorb movement offered by the artist. A few photographs were taken. Artificial Intelligence is in it’s infancy. …
Whoever needs something other than a puppet is not part of this community. to play: to put oneself in play, to surpass the given in play, the content: only what is favorable to the game. Perhaps also on the mad philosopher: community? or mystic? -excerpt On Nietzsche Notes by Georges Bataille…
And now? I account for myself clearly. The project that I put in writing, this book was a frightful challenge. Could I have succeeded? Really? It is apparently a failure; this book resembles tanks abandoned in their essence and through combat, half destroyed in a field. It is…
Sometimes I have no idea what to write. In time an idea develops… “This” piece of writing “sets my hair on fire.” There’s no need for anything of my own but to share this with you. An infantryman’s least favorite weather is a temperature of 35 degrees Fahrenheit and pouring rain, when the trench…
