May 2012
The real consciousness is the chaos
-Samuel Beckett Posted via email from Luminous Darkness | Comment »
February 2012
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Melancholy
From Freud: Let us now apply to melancholia what we have learnt about mourning. In one set of cases it is evident that melancholia too may be the reaction to the loss of a loved object. Where the exciting causes are different one can recognize that there is a loss of a more ideal kind. The object has not perhaps actually died, but has been lost as an object of love. In yet other cases one feels...
November 2011
Opening (within) an outside that it not beyond
I was reading Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-enclosure today and ran across this passage. This affirmation that existence is experience: that it does nothing else, cut loose from the goal for the project of the will—does nothing else but expose itself to the unforeseeable, the unheard of of its own event. Experience simply—we should say—“events”...
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what do they want?
there are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you; it is always sudden. sometimes when you come in and lie down on the bed it happens— 2 eyes that have nothing to do with you stare back at you from inside your brain. you sit up until they go away. or say you scream at a child or slap a woman— as you walk into the kitchen the eyes appear in the back of your brain...
August 2011
Eucharistic poetics
(link) Posted via email from Blake Huggins’s posterous | Comment »
July 2011
Transcendence and immanence
-Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 161. Posted via email from Blake Huggins’s posterous | Comment »
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