#pseudposting

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キース Keith

at Taji Whale Museum via @uoza0320

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even though he was dutch i don't think spinoza smoked weed, but i wouldn't be surprised if he reached some pretty deep meditative states during those long hours of lens grinding and polishing, so (if he did) that may start to gesture towards explaining why his philosophy seems (at least to me) to appeal to a lot of stoner/psychonaut-types (who seem to have a higher-than-average overlap with meditation-types — c.f. alan watts fans, etc.)

nvm this one was pretty dumb lol

[biopolitique]

Thinking back on Jünger’s anarch I’ve come to think that it is a form of armed pacifism aimed towards the institutions.

Take Switzerland. The reason it was mostly left alone in the great conflicts that ravaged Europe since its creation is that the country had both a hostile terrain and a hostile population. This second point is critical: a daring Hannibal of modern times could cross any terrain, but even a Napoléon could not do much against determined partisans. With its ideology of the citizen-soldier, the Confederation was able to fend off its powerful neigbours with the sole threat of a merciless guerrilla — think of Wilhelm II’s quote on the matter. In short: it doesn’t matter if you “would rather not to” but have no possibility to.

Which brings me back to esteemed Mr. Ernst: the capacity of the anarch to blend in the social order combined to its power to leave it at any moment, only to better come back, is not a contradiction but an exercise of one’s own sovereignty. In there lies the possibility of change — as long as you don’t go down that jüngerian road of pure individualism. To use the terms of his metaphor, you might survive alone once out of the ship; but to live, a few friends will help down there in the forest.

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False Killer Whale (Pseudorca Crassidens)

Observed on iNaturalist by wilbur_goh

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ティナ Tina

at Aqua Park Shinagawa via @natalipaqpa

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ティナ Tina

at Aqua Park Shinagawa via @okigon_aqupa

[biopolitique]

Foucault didn’t get Saló tbh. The movie is not about historical nazism or fascism, as the term has a particular meaning in the mouth of Pasolini. Some texts in his “Corsair writings” indicate that it simply refers to a totalitarian organisation of society, and Saló is an illustration of his idea of a transgression “from above”, which is “tolerated” — someone else said “everything’s permitted, nothing is possible”. Right-wing or leftist readings that criticise PPP for being a sort of Critical-Theory-Puritan (for different reasons) fail to understand his ideal of freedom.

Foucault is right, however, when he attacks those who critique the posture of the spectator. That’s the weakest aspect of the work of Pasolini . Rancière wrote a good book on the matter.

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I don’t like people who think they can escape society or redefine it.

Jünger got it right. While still largely an escapist, he knew that you could never really get away from society. Your fellow man is always there, in your shadow.

Foucault got it too, I already talked about it. But unlike Jünger, he was more the kind to think about a process of redefining.