White Wales

19, sometime english scholar, sometime programmer, searching for the "break-through in the yellow room"

[theorderovdeath]

“…just wish I could crawl in here and disappear forever.”

[autohebung]

The Gnostic's passionate adoration of Sophia was known as philosophia – the love of Sophia – a mystical communication with a divine female intelligence having little to do with the strictly intellectual pursuit currently labeled "philosophy."

Zeena Schreck and Nikolas Schreck, “Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left-Hand Path Sex Magic“

[autohebung]

so tumblr gives a shit about copyright now. shouldn’t have bothered coming back.

[autohebung]

ok lets do the tumblr thing again.

ring a ring a rosie

[missladylane]

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[autohebung]

I do not work for pleasure, earthly peace I'll see no more The only reason I work at all, is drive the world from my door When my earthly trials are over, carry my body out in the sea Save all the undertaker bills, let the mermaids flirt with me

[scaevities-deactivated20151108]

Everything that thrives on human mysticism clings to it and possesses power.

Wilhelm Reich, Prevention and Problem of Culture   (via alterities)

[boohooray]

[grupaok]

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Signs, 1975: “INSTITUTIONS ENJOY CRITICISM AS LONG AS IT DOESN’T THREATEN THEIR BASIC STRUCTURE”

[bustakay]

I sleep very late. I commit suicide at 65%. My life is very cheap, it’s only 30% of life for me. My life has 30% of life. It lacks arms, strings and a few buttons. 5% is devoted to a state of semi-lucid stupor accompanied by anaemic crackling. This 5% is called DADA. So life is cheap. Death is a bit more expensive. But life is charming and death is equally charming.

Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love. (via bustakay)

[adornography]

The pat phrase about the ‘mechanization’ of man is deceptive because it thinks of him as something static which, through an ‘influence’ from the outside, an adaptation to conditions of production external to him, suffers certain deformations. But there is no substratum beneath such ‘deformations’, no ontic interior on which social mechanisms merely act externally: the deformation is not a sickness in men but in the society which begets its children with the ‘hereditary taint’ that biologism projects on to nature.

Adorno, Minima Moralia III.147: “Novissimum organum.” Translated by E.F.N. Jephcott. (via adornography)

[post-makhno]

Marriage sanctifies some couples at the expense of others. It is selective legitimacy. This is a necessary implication of the institution, and not just the result of bad motives.… To a couple that gets married, marriage just looks ennobling… Stand outside for a second and you see the implication: if you don’t have it, you and your relations are less worthy. Without this corollary effect, marriage would not be able to endow anyone’s life with significance. The ennobling and demeaning go together. Marriage does one only by virtue of the other. Marriage, in short, discriminates.

Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life p. 82 (via post-makhno)

[allmystrings-deactivated2015050]

But Bataille also recognizes forms of language that are noninstrumental, not efficacious factors in project and work, not themselves forms of work and not instruments for the transmission of information and that realize communication. There is, there has been from the beginning, poetry.

Alphonso Lingis, “Contact and Communication,” in The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication (via allmystrings)

[oneverylargeindexcard]

Philip Auslander, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (1999)

Pithy one-sentence summary:

There is no live performance uncontaminated by mediatization/mediatic systems, and the very conditional qualifier of the descriptor “live” proves it.

Pithy critique:

This book it a hoot. Take that as you want.

[journalforjungspundhegelianism]

Die Dialektik ist unendlich, weil die konstituierende Subjektivität synthetisch eins ist mit der Zeit, weil also die Existenz eine ‘für sich seiende’ Endlichkeit ist.

Jacques Derrida: Le problème de la génèse dans la Philosophie de Husserl, Paris 1990, S. 172. (via diesebastionbehrisch)

[weil-weil-lautre]

As [Christ] dwells in the famished wretch whom a just man feeds, so He dwells in the condemned wretch whom a just man punishes. He did not say so, but He showed it clearly enough by dying like a common criminal. He is the divine model of prisoners and old offenders. As the young workingmen of the J.O.C. thrill at the thought that Christ is one of them, so condemned criminals have just reason to taste a like rapture. They only need to be told, as the workingmen were told. In a sense Christ is nearer to them than to the martyrs.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God; “The Love of Our Neighbor,” pp. 96-97 (via weil-weil)

[johnashberypoetry-blog]

Anticipated Stranger,

the bruise will stop by later. For now, the pain pauses in its round, notes the time of day, the patient’s temperature, leaves a memo for the surrogate: What the hell did you think you were doing? I mean … Oh well, less said the better, they all say. I’ll post this at the desk.

God will find the pattern and break it.

[autohebung]

In so far as intelligence thinks, its object and content remains something universal, while its own behavior consists of a universal activity. In the will, 'the universal' also means in essence 'mine', 'individuality'; and in the immediate will - the will which is will in form only - it means abstract individuality, individuality not yet filled with its free universality. Hence it is in the will that the intrinsic finitude of intelligence has its beginning; and it is only by raising itself to become thought again, and endowing its aims with immanent universality, that the will cancels the the difference of form and content and makes itself the infinite, objective, will. Thus they understand little of the nature of thinking and willing who suppose that while, in willing as such, man is infinite, in thinking, he, or even reason itself, is restricted. In so far as thinking and wiling are still distinguished, the opposite is rather the truth, and will is thinking reason resolving itself to finitude.

- Hegel, Introduction to Philosophy of Right (trans. T.M Knox)