Monday, April 11, 2022

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

If/then

The capacity for rationality is best expressed by the ability to perform networked and causally dependent if/then logic. If/then logic demonstrates an understanding of timing, sequence, chained prognostication. I once had an ex named Anna G who appeared to not be able to plan beyond the moment.

reversal as negation

Monday, December 20, 2021

Nabokov

 "Infinite perfections fill the gap between the little given and the great promised."

Monday, October 18, 2021

Emerson on Abandonment

The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man" said Oliver Cromwell "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Immanence

"We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing more. It is not immanent to life, but the immanence that is in nothing else is itself a life. A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete beatitude." - Gilles Deleuze

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Dialogues

 In each of us there is, as it were, an ascesis, in part turned against ourselves. We are deserts, but populated by tribes, flora and fauna. We pass our time in ordering these tribes, arranging them in other ways, getting rid of some and encouraging others to prosper. And all these clans, all these crowds, do not undermine the desert, which is our very ascesis; on the contrary they inhabit it, they pass through it, over it.