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Disturbing GentlenessThe Ontological Depth of
Nonviolence
Tim Morton
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What Is the Difference
Between a Duck?Withdrawal
Non-totalizable plenum
No bottom object
No top object
No middle object
Nonviolence is existence
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The Rift
chimera monster, illusion
Supposing a painter chose to put a humanhead on a horse's neck, or to spread
feathers of various colours over the limbs
of several different creatures, or to make
what in the upper part is a beautiful woman
tail off into a hideous fish, could you helplaughing when he showed you his efforts?
Horace, The Art of Poetry
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The Rift
Appearance past
Essence future
No present, presence
Nowness
No (empty) space
Spaciousness
Greek, chorismos
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Alien PhenomenologyIan Bogost
Seest thou, beside the wintry torrent's course,
how the trees that yield to it save every twig,
while the stiff-necked perish root and branch?
Sophocles,Antigone
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each
hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selvesgoes itself;myselfit speaks and spells,
Crying, What I do is me: for that I came.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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What constitutes pretense is that, in the end,
you don't know whether it's pretense or not
Jacques Lacan
Dialetheia
This sentence is false
The Liar
tumbled-over-rim-in-roundy-wells
stones
p p
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beauty Kant
object-like unconditional
decorum
essence rift appearance
substance accidence
non-conceptual je ne sais quoi
non-coercive
Ethics
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beauty Kant
object-like unconditional
non-coercive
Adorno
Alphonso Lingis aesthetic intimacylevels, directives
uncanny, undead world of Liars
Ethics
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The vicissitudes of this life are like
drowning in a glass pond.
Enmeshed
Chgyam Trungpa
My place in the sun
is the beginning of all usurpation
Pascal and Levinas
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Beauty Is Death
fragility
core shattering Erschtterung (Adorno)
hamartia Greek, wound
Dzogchen bardo
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Anthropocene
Trinity Test at 0.016 Seconds
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Living with Inconsistency
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Living with Inconsistency
ego record of abandoned object
cathexes (Freud)
objects temporary autonomous zones
My place in the sun
is the beginning of all usurpation
Pascal and Levinas
an uneasy, uncanny face-off between itself
if that is not too strange a way to put it
Troy Davis
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Living with Inconsistency
Ploughshares Daniel Berrigan
Isaiah swords into
ploughshareslion lying with lamb
return to nature or heightened
inconsistency?
The Mask of Anarchy
Peterloo Massacre
Occupy movement
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The Mask of Anarchy
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable numberShake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on youYe are manyThey are few.
Percy Shelley
coexistence with coexistence
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The Trials of Narcissus
There is a danger. Dont fall in lovewith yourselves. We have a nice time
here. But remember: carnivals come
cheap. What matters is the day after.
When we will have to return to normal
life. Will there be any changes then...
Slavoj iek
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The Trials of NarcissusChampa Maitri Loving kindness
There is not narcissism and non-narcissism. There are
narcissisms that are more or less comprehensive, generous,
open, extended. What is called non-narcissism is in general
but the economy of a much more welcoming and hospitable
narcissism. One that is much more open to the experience of
the Other as Other. I believe that without a movement of
narcissistic reappropriation, the relation to the Other
would be absolutely destroyed, it would be destroyed in
advance. The relation to the Other, even if it remainsasymmetrical, open, without possible reappropriation, must
trace a movement of reappropriation in the image of one's
self for love to be possible. Love is narcissistic...
Jacques Derrida, There Is No One Narcissism
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The Trials of NarcissusChampa Maitri Loving kindness
Meditation allowing things to coexist
to be p p
Purify channels nadi, prana, bindu
Non-meditation magom (Mahamudra, Dzogchen)
Acclimatizing gom (Tibetan), mathsis
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Ian Bogost
The Atari boasts a
mere 128 bytes of
ram, and becauseof a cost-saving
measure, its game
programs can
occupy a maximum
of 4 kilobytes on
a cartridge.
As I reflected on the concept ofA Slow Year, I realized
that I wanted to let this slowness become the game.
For me, the Atari is a slow machine. The rush of setting up
scan lines before the electron gun reaches a particular part of
the screen, of racing the beam as we call itthat part isfast. But the experience of programming it is slow. Every cycle
counts. Nothing is wasted.
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Ian Bogost,A Slow Year (screen shots)
Instead of piloting a tank or looking down the sight of a
rifle, the player ofA SlowYear drinks from a mug of coffee
(winter), closes his eyes to nap (summer), watches lightning in
a thunderstorm (spring), and observes a leaf in the changing
wind (autumn).
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Prayer Wheel
animated .gif
water
powered
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