GUY DANCE
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The basic human tragedy is becoming a character in a book you should have written. The basic comedy is that someone else has already written it.
Pantheism of God’s body after that of God’s mind. Logicality of affect. Ordo Salutis. Mood is a station and a way? Publication. Exposed (self) education. Indifferentiation, dis-association. Enlightenment, nihilation.
They wash me in fire stone; the man woman go down to eat the grass but look up, saying “all with you.” In all colors and leaves of colors I go with new family on every side. Where I go blood goes, where I lead they follow. One cold one heat go by and here I am again at the stone.
The most significant difference between the astronomical system (the system of the sun) and the life-system (the system of the earth) is that, in the former case, doing nothing keeps everything going, whereas in the latter case doing nothing causes catastrophe.
Deleuzianism is a sad story. Deleuze’s enlightenment style utopianism was that you can philosophize without having to attack culture, without having to credit religiousity. That’s his real gripe with Hegel, even Plato. But the result is the compulsive attack on attack of culture.
The ‘secret’ of immanence is: there is an abyssal, anti-ontical ground of culture the tendrils of culture cannot touch. Luhmann said individuality is not ‘in’ social system because individuals under- & over-exist it. Deleuze revitalized stoicism for the age of network gnosticism.
In post-Protestant society, there is only the mysticism of the camera itself. Freemasonry was already suspected as crypto-catholic in the 18th century. Public exposure is itself mystery: what happens after revelation? The only secret is the open secret, as for Hegel’s Egyptians.
Twizzy’s Last Words (Vocabulary Quiz) retweeted
it's almost as if reckoning is not quite all we mean by thinking
They don’t wanna hear it but Groyper elitism is a revival of—French enlightenment nihilism. Diderot invented the dialectic of the chud and the frog. The latter is called “Rameau’s Nephew” and the former is called “moi.” Read it all as counter-Protestant cultural stoicization.
“Culture” will always be a more bankrupt concept compared to religion & religiousity. Cultural action rests essentially on a dialectic of crowd & icon, sociability & sociality. But the desire of the Other that moves everything culturally thinkable is by definition ABSOLUTE.