Utopian Rapport

  

[philosophybits]

“From the point of view of differences, if we regard a thing as big because there is a certain bigness to it, then among all the ten thousand things there are none that are not big. If we regard a thing as small because there is a certain smallness to it, then among the ten thousand things there are none that are not small. If we know that heaven and earth are tiny grains and the tip of a hair is a range of mountains, then we have perceived the law of difference.”

— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 17)

[tonreihe]

“Easter. I am cold to the core of my soul, and I am also as close as possible to despair. Such is, on me, the effect of this great feast. Easter Sunday is ordinarily painful for me, sometimes terrible. Impossible to hide my distress, which is expressed nearly like this: I do not arrive at feeling the joy of the Resurrection because the Resurrection, for me, never arrives. I always see Jesus in agony, Jesus on the cross, and I cannot see him in any other way.

“Then, this morning, I was too much reminded of the past, already so distant (1879-1882) and, all the same, so very much alive still when I saw the veritable Véronique, in tears and shredded by the tigers of compassion, in front of the image of Jesus being handed over to his tormentors… How to climb out of that chasm again?… That perpetual recommencement of the ecclesiastical Year, ever the same, without the Lord ever breaking out, from behind the clouds, and shining!…

“Non venit regnum Dei cum observatione. Well do I know it. But because this Reign must not be accompanied by any sign, does that mean that I must wait forever?”

—Léon Bloy, The Ungrateful Beggar (entry for April 14, 1895)

[improvisedliturgy]

[S]elf-reference is the mechanism toward totality, since it is in the reflection that the self and its other are grasped as a whole, while the truth no longer lies in the self or the other, but in the whole. As Pires has noted, one of the central themes of the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit is precisely the relation between truth and the system of science. Truth is not to be discovered through a system of science, as a proposition whose validity has to be proved against a logical system, but rather truth ‘can only be the scientific system itself.’ This wholeness is the organic totality… Recursivity allows the grasp of the organic whole through the recognition of the other—this other is always plural and situated in different reflections. […] The organic whole is considered as a self-sufficient movement that constantly produces and abolishes differences, and for this reason is no longer an abstract concept.

Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency

[theconcealedweapon]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[toiich]

Age Is… (2012), dir. Stephen Dwoskin

[toiich]

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), dir. Luis Buñuel

[toiich]

I Married a Witch (1942), dir. René Clair

[havingapoemwithyou]

Hunger by Ruth Awad

[improvisedliturgy]

If philosophy wants to become a system, it will have to develop a mechanism allowing it to resolve the threat posed by contingency. If the a priori laws become contingent, then the system will collapse immediately. The system would therefore better respond to contingency by not having predefined rules, and instead allow rules to emerge during its confrontation with contingency and irregularity. We pass here from a transcendental characterized by rules to a transcendental characterized by teleology, analogous to the movement from Kant’s first to his third Critique. At the center of this systemic thinking is the concept of the organic, which comes from discoveries in the natural sciences, especially biology. Being organic is not merely maintaining part-whole relations, but also designates self-organization and autopoiesis, which we want to call recursivity.

Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency

[dyingenigma]

https://vkvideo.ru/@club240402299

I put up African films here

[calvinandhobbes]

“Anything too perfect has to have a mistake or the gods will take it away.”

—Cy Twombly, quoted in Cy Twombly: The Ceiling; Un plafond pour le Louvre

[majestativa]

“Odysseus returned, full with space and time.”

— Osip Mandelstam, Tristia

[gravalicious]

Maida Springer-Kemp

[gravalicious]

Musician and writer Francis Bebey.

[ssegundosombra]

"'Someone has fired, on the corner, an ice bullet over the body of a murdered woman, the sound of which will barely begin to be heard ten generations from now, when the empty apple falls onto the asphalt surface and rolls without end, immodest to the point of innocence, from one echo to another. Now, the nocturnal militia places a beautiful horse at each extremity of her body to draw it to the morgue in four opposite directions, between frozen fish and orthopedic bellies, to rest in peace.  

"'An umbrella in a state of siege declares, and her window voice flutters throughout the street, driven mad, chased by two trees disguised as witnesses: she had climbed the stairs with a letter; then she got naked to facilitate the autopsy and immediately afterwards she discharged upon her temple all the suicidal shadows that might burst from the walls of a room merely by flipping the light switch. That which is seen inside the window display of the funeral parlor isn’t a sound either, nor the footsteps that receded farther with each farewell, but rather the fervent notary who sews the cadaver with a black needle, until she begins to groan and from her opened breasts our memories come running out, our dates, the hands that plot lies, and then she, carefully sleepwalking, covers my skin with lips.'"

José Revueltas, Nocturne: Everything is Heard

[davidhudson]

Philip Seymour Hoffman, July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014.

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 17, 2024 - Palestine Action members cut through 3 security fences to get inside Elbit Systems 'highly secure' compound and break into the Israeli company's weapons factory in Kent, UK. Once inside, they began dismantling machinery, technology and parts used to arm the Gaza genocide, causing more than a million pounds worth of damage. [video]