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. . . la singularité exposée comme telle est quelconque, autrement dit aimable.
Giorgio Agamben, « La communauté qui vient. Théorie de la singularité quelconque », trad. Marilène Raiola, Futur antérieure 1 (mai 1990). En ligne : Multitudes : revue politique, artistique, philosophique.
Mirkka Rekolan (26.6.1931–5.2.2014) runo kokoelmasta Taivas päivystää (1996).
Jää hyvästi.
7.2.2014
Eilen, luettuani Mirkka Rekolan kuolemasta, etsin lohtua nappaamalla satunnaisesti yhden niteen kirjahyllystäni, lehteilin sitä hetken ja tuo runo, “Voi olla ettei kukaan”, tuli minua vastaan. Se sanoo kaiken. Se tekee minkä sanoo ja sanoo minkä tekee.
Voi olla ettei kukaan.
… the sentiment of injustice, while reinforced by experience, is probably natural, at least to Jean-Jacques, quite independently of experience.
Christopher Kelly, ‘On the Naturalness of the Sentiment of Injustice’, L'Esprit Créateur, Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 2012, pp. 68-80, here p. 69 (online). (via rasanenpajari)
I'm not the only one with this thought, either, as it seems.
Life imprisonment is the most horrible of punishments because it preserves existence in its pure facticity but forbids it all legitimation (La claustration à vie est la plus horrible des peines, parce qu'elle conserve l'existence dans sa pure facticité, mais qu'elle lui interdit toute légitimation).
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity. Trans. Bernard Frechtman (New York: Citadel, 1949). Originally in French: Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté (Paris: Gallimard, 1947).
An unorthodox view on ‘trigger happy’. Make #purr not war.
Be among the first to see “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” during @MetMembers Previews, April 13-17. Join today at metmuseum.org/join The exhibition, opening to the public on April 18, focuses on the astonishing wealth, outstanding artistry, and technical achievements of the Hellenistic period—the three centuries between Alexander’s death, in 323 B.C., and the establishment of the Roman Empire, in the first century B.C. Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth, Hellenistic period, 2nd century B.C. Greek. Collection of Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Image: © SMB / Antikensammlung. #TheMet #MetPergamon #MetMembers by metmuseum
Lost his marble(s).
An unorthodox view on ‘trigger happy’. Make #purr not war.
Wir nennen diese belebende Kraft an einem KunstProdukte Geist, den Mangel derselben Geistlosigkeit, […]. Wie erhält ein menschliches Product jene belebende Kraft, und woher hat der geistvolle Künstler das Geheimniß, sie ihm einzuhauchen? Mit angenehmem Befremden entdecke ich bei Betrachtung seines Werkes Anlagen und Talente in mir, die ich selbst nicht kannte. Hat er auf diese Anlagen in mir die Wirkung seiner Kunst berechnet? Ohne Zweifel; denn woher sonst dieser Erfolg? Aber wer hat ihm mein Inneres aufgedeckt, in welchem ich selbst ein Fremdling war?
Johann Gottlieb FICHTE, Über Geist und Buchstabe (1798)
Lähde: http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1429157233896
The Family, 1918, by Egon Schiele
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On So-called 'Islamisation': 'A pretty lousy colonisation process, no?'
I hear you marched in your thousands against my religion. Last week, and last month. You marched against immigrants, foreigners, and anyone a shade darker. I will not draw comparisons to Nazi Germany. I will not call you bigots, I will not insult you... (Rabah Kherbane, 'A Muslim's Response to the 25,000 Anti-Islam Protesters in Germany', Huffington Post UK 18/01/2015)
'Islamisation' across the nations, you think? Rabah Kherbane questions that notion: 'A pretty lousy colonisation process, no?' Please read the article quoted above, 'A Muslim's Response...', from beginning to the end.
And then you can start complaining and exclaiming that Pegida (self-proclaimed 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West') and other counter-jihadist organisations or movements or politicians are not racist, not against all muslims, not far-right, not islamophobic, not xenophobic, not-this-and-not-that, &c &c.
Correct me if I am mistaken, but it seems to me that one paradoxical thing about Pegida is that its leader Lutz Bachmann (whose mask has definitely fallen and revealed a Hitler-moustached racist underneath) drew the initial inspiration to found the movement from a demonstration in Dresden that demanded military support, namely arms, for the Kurds to fight ISIS in Northern Syria. Pegida was 'initially ... mainly directed against arms shipments to the PKK' (Wikipedia), namely to the Kurdish party that defends the multi-cultural population of Kobani and other parts of the Kurdistan area against Jihadist terror!
If Bachmann's kind of 'counter-jihadism' is not hypocritical, I don't know what is. The real resistance to 'Islamisation' (if we can recycle and mis-use that stupid label for the utterly disgusting terror whose aim is to create a theocratic, fascist caliphate) does not take place on the streets of Dresden.
Pegida was founded to counter the leftist, Kurdish PKK, and not to act against islamist extremism and terrorism. It is the Kurds who are involved in armed resistance, putting their lives at stake, against the so-called 'Islamic State'.
So, as preposterous as it may seem, in choosing to react against the fantasy of an 'Islamisation of the West' and thus ignore the nature of the more or less violent antagonisms within 'the Islamic world' (namely the muslims who are exposed to the threat of the jihadist type of fascism and who defend themselves and 'others' against it), Pegida is rather in league with the radical 'islamist' terrorists than with those who really fight against the 'jihadists'. The strategical goal of the jihadist is the same as that of the counter-jihadist: to propagate the fundamental incommensurability of 'the Islamic' and 'the Western'.
Indeed, the 'counter-jihadist' are nothing but useful idiots of the 'jihadist'.
… the sentiment of injustice, while reinforced by experience, is probably natural, at least to Jean-Jacques, quite independently of experience.
Christopher Kelly, 'On the Naturalness of the Sentiment of Injustice', L'Esprit Créateur, Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 2012, pp. 68-80, here p. 69 (online).
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20 ways to slice the European continent from Atlas of Prejudice 2 by Yanko Tsvetkov.
Fortunately, prejudice can be hilarious.
Mirkka Rekolan (26.6.1931–5.2.2014) runo kokoelmasta Taivas päivystää (1996).
Jää hyvästi.
7.2.2014
Eilen, luettuani Mirkka Rekolan kuolemasta, etsin lohtua nappaamalla satunnaisesti yhden niteen kirjahyllystäni, lehteilin sitä hetken ja tuo runo, "Voi olla ettei kukaan", tuli minua vastaan. Se sanoo kaiken. Se tekee minkä sanoo ja sanoo minkä tekee.
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” was released 50 years ago this week. The film is regarded as a cinematic masterpiece today (AFI ranked it No. 39 in its’ 10th anniversary Top 100 in 2007), but in February 1964, Times’ film editor Philip K. Scheuer didn’t find much to like. I’m partial to the deadpan of the subheadline: "Kubrick’s ‘Satire’ Tells All About End of World, Ha Ha." But this is a great line too:
… a publicist at Columbia, which is distributing the picture, assured me it would be my “cup of tea.” After suffering through two screenings of “Dr. Strangelove,” I would sooner drink hemlock.
Scheuer issues no spoiler alerts while giving away the ending and laments that “[a]ll members of our armed forces are pictured as either utterly unscrupulous or just plain stupid.”
And then he makes a point that is rather jarring to a reader in today’s era of the antihero.
Is all this necessary? I submit that, as with “[It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad,] Mad World,” villains are not funny per se — especially when there are no good guys around to offset them.
Scheuer doesn’t spare the actors either.
Peter Sellers plays three parts, all in widely disparate make-up: the President, an RAF exchange officer and Dr. Strangelove, a Nazi fanatic employed as our top nuclear scientist. His bumbling Briton comes through; the others are, with all due respect to his talent for mimicry, simply preposterous. George C. Scott (I have never seen him give a bad performance till now) makes the staff chairman — Gen. Buck Turgidson — a mugging, stomach-scratching, gum-chewing vulgarian.
That’s Peter Sellers above, later in 1964. He’d had a heart attack and was photographed leaving the hospital with his wife.
— Matt Ballinger
Original published caption, May 8, 1964: GOING HOME — British comedian Peter Sellers, 38, stricken with a heart attack April 6 that almost cost him his life, gets a hug from his Swedish actress wife, Britt Eklund, 21, as he leaves Cedars of Lebanon Hospital on an ambulance litter Thursday. Credit: Los Angeles Times
