Goethe, Nature, Philosophy

I really like this piece (thanks to dmf):

Goethe and Environmental Philosophy

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"The Snow Man"

The not so simple issue of time . . .   It seems quite obvious that objects withdraw partly because our experience of them (and our experience of ourselves) is temporal.  How can anyone assume they have the full picture of any thing, when they experience day by day that their understanding of things changes as they learn and unlearn about them.

I’m also interested in the idea (implied above) that objects withdraw through our projections . . . that is, we not only don’t see what is there but we also see what’s not there.

"The Snow Man"

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Isolina Limonta--Printing with Objects

“The bodies of the figures in her work are filled with the intimate elements of their lives — plants, coins, feathers, architecture, lace, or buttons (to name a few) are imprinted on their bodies.”

See more prints here.

  

(Quote from http://lagaleriacubana.com/limonta.aspx)

Film . . . Half Nelson

"near perfect" . . . . including tracks from Broken Social Scene

Great trailer here.

Objects Indian and Otherwise

by Randall Honold

See here from  Environmental Critique

OOO 101.1

Explaining Object Oriented Ontology to your non-OOO friends

by Rick Elmore

See here from Environmental Critique. 

OOOCD

I’m reworking my rhetoric of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and OCD arguments.  If a patient learns to modulate dysphoria or anxiety through CBT . . . they come to accept that the cause of depression (say, sibling rivalry) is not actually cause for depression, or the cause for alarm (doorknob) is not really cause for alarm. 

They have to assimilate paradoxes:

sr = depression (feeling) and sr =/= depression (knowledge)

dk = alarm (feeling) and dk =/= alarm (knowledge)

Thus they come to realize that objects are withdrawn from them (the wholesomeness of the doorknob, the value of germs, etc.), and that they are withdrawn from themselves (they are not the sum of their depressive or OCD symptoms).  They have leverage in access to knowledge about themselves, other objects, and how they relate to other objects . . . all of which are withdrawn. 

This is true of mindfulness in general.

Earth, Jupiter, and Venus

. . . from Mars.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger



"Well, he may not be a tall dark stranger.  But he's becoming my stranger."

One of the smartest of the recent Woody Allens I think . . . very engaging and well played.  Trailer

Othello Snap!

Intro to Othello: The Remix

Othello: The Remix

 . . . thanks for the inspiration Q Brothers

Rhetoric--open style?

-- "Ah! que n'ai je mis bas tout un noeud de vipères,
Plutôt que de nourrir cette dérision!
Maudite soit la nuit aux plaisirs éphémères
Où mon ventre a conçu mon expiation!

                   Baudelaire, "Benedicition"

 

 

We should mark well the difference (assuming it makes a difference) between rhetoric that seeks mastery, invested in transcendent presence, confident of its own transparency to itself and rhetoric willing to cede power, recognizing the ubiquity of immanent withdrawal, and with a humility commensurate with an appreciation of the contingency of its own logic and self-persuasion.

Without overstating the case, is the second style more open in that it intends a condition of greater openness and is more mindful of its embattlement?

(inspired by Levi Bryant's The Democracy of Objects)

Everything you wanted to know about rhetoric . . .

"Structural coupling is a relation in which two systems signal back and forth to one another and co-evolve or develop as a resut, with the stimuli playing very different functional roles in the inner world of the two respective entitites."

Great Levi Bryant post here.  See comments on rhetoric.  (Also see Bryant's The Democracy of Objects, Chapter 4 here.) 

"Babooon Metaphysics"

See my Environmental Critique piece here

The Democracy of Objects

 . . . by Levi R. Bryant.  What a great book!  Rhetors, see Chapter 4 post haste.  I'm now completely immersed in Chapter 6 . . .

Find it here.

And some reviews here.