Some years ago I read one or two books by philosopher Alexandre Kojève; now in the biography about Lacan I read Kojève had an epiphany as a young man about the synthesis of the Orient and the Occident; man, in the Metaphysical Note about Extreme Metal I wanted to show how “Western” and “Eastern” metaphysics can be trangressed into a holistic practice and teach you the (metapyhsics of the) overman. Good I still have not written it, due to a permanent mixture of intellectual overarousal and (apparent) practical laziness, maybe I again postpone it for good. Apart from that it appeared to me today in the morning I have to read Pirsig´s Lila and Norbert Wiener´s autobiography since both contain information about WJ Sidis as alongside I made the plan to write a note about the Transbodhidharma. That will feel good.
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Living on the Edge #2
„… die bedauerliche Tatsache, daß jeder der anerkannten Künstler nur etwa ein Dutzend verstehender Anhänger besitzt, … aus jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung hat Cézanne resigniert geäußert, jede Kunst sei nur für wenige da. Erst als Bildungsvorrat erweitert sie die Peripherie ihres Kreises und schafft die Täuschung, als wären der Erkennenden viele. Alles dies gehört in in das Gebiet der Auswirkung der Kunst, nicht in den inneren Bezirk des Geschehens…“ (Will Grohmann, 1926)
Living on the Edge
Ahhhh … the exurbia regions of human thought, where the dances of signifiers and the signified become most dislocated and most elementary, hyper-authentic, hyper-innocent, ready to return to base again … after that the seam of infinity, which we love.
Update about Notes
“I am with anything I need to develop before I die in delay and I am bad at moving forward” – Jacques Lacan, 1966
Lol I am rereading Roudinesco´s bio about Lacan since, as I mentioned some days ago, I want to write several notes about him and others and psychoanalysis in general. Yesterday I borrowed Spengler´s “Decline of the West” from my Dad to reread it as well and to write a note about Oswald Spengler and Ibn Chaldun and, sometime later, maybe also about Toynbee and Braudel and reflections about the course of history in general. After I have finished Homer I wanted to write a note about Homer and Lautreamont but it occured to me today in the morning that this would require rereading Nietzsche´s “The Birth of Tragey” since it´s about juxtaposing the Apollonian and the Dionysian writer (at least at current state of reflection). Some minutes later it occured to me that I want to write a “Note about Emanuel Lasker, Chess, and Shit” (respectively about what the ancient Greek called metis). There are now 15 or so notes written in my head at the moment and number obviously keeps growing; ahhhh that´s the hyperbola that lies within the mind, that IS the mind. This should lead to great glory fuck yeah.
Das Ding an sich
Watching stupid shit is best practice. Unless the stupid shit flame burns in you and consumes you, you never enjoy the world aright. Schopenhauer says it is the Will, Nietzsche says it is the Will to Power, I say it is Stupid Shit what makes Kant´s Ding an sich, and so if you establish a perfect gaze at stupid shit you will be in perfect alignment with the world; it will destroy the limitations of your intellect, spawn omniscience, cleanse the soul, demolish the subject-object dichotomy and evaporate flawed internal systems of reference like yin-yang shit and stuff. Veni, vidi stultum stercore, vici.
Philip HautmannNi Zan, in his not very well known poetry, establishes a perfect gaze at stupid shit, you should get close to it; they say if, on your path to ascension, you meet the Buddha you should kill the Buddha, maybe, but that is not the correct approach relating to Ni Zan, thou should make his eyes thine; some shades of the Buddha are inherently, and necessarily, relative, but Ni Zan is absolute. (See also blog entry about Ni Zan below.)
Die letzten Enden aller Dinge
“Die letzten Enden aller Dinge will
Sein Geist zusammenfassen. Das gelingt
Kaum EINEM unter Millionen Menschen.
Und er ist nicht der Mann: er fällt zuletzt,
Um nichts gebessert, in sich selbst zurück.”
Goethe, Torquato Tasso
Lol kann mir nicht passieren.
Meaning of IQ Test Scores
IQ 172 to 188
“Freakish. While still of primary school age, only around one in 1000 professors can look them in the eye intellectually. They tend to read competently before they are three years old. Keynes – who used to intimidate Russell – was probably in this category. Zietsman believes that FW Nietzsche, the German philosopher and poet, and Hugo de Groote, a jurist, were others. Michael Kerney, who holds the world record as the youngest university graduate ever at 10 years old, probably also has an adult IQ around 186 on this scale. Only one in a million people are this intelligent. They are seldom understood or appreciated. Most feel profoundly isolated from society – even when they are appreciated. A large proportion of this group opt out of society and never make revolutionary contributions in the standard academic fields or professions. It seems to be very difficult to motivate them to play the academic/scholarly/professional game because they regard even the most venerable of traditions and institutions as absurd or silly. Consider that even the mind of the average professor appears to them like the mind of the average bricklayer would appear to the professor.”
Spiritual Update
Some, including Goethe and Schopenhauer, say that the work of the high genius is “practically” useless; I just finished a biography about A.N.; lol a considerable number of those highly gifted people and artists portrayed in there do not seem particularly likeable, who the fuck do they think they are?; given the scope of their intellects their personalities are stupid as hell; I guess if humanity could clearly see through how they really are (fortunately they are protected by the veil of the Maya) they would sink into self-loathing and maybe cease to reproduce; and so that is why (apart from the veil of the Maya) you need the example and the imago of the Buddha, the Christ, that is to say it is actually the omega genius ( = fully realized human potential), who mirrors life for everyone, who has the most important function of all and is the keeper of life. Mediate about that.
Update about Notes
On weekend it occured to me that I want to write a note about Freud and Lacan. Although that should be easy I found that I want to (re)read one or the other stuff by/about both of them before. In doing so it occured to me I would have to write a particular note about what Lacan has said about Joyce in the Seminar 23 (about the sinthome), since I hate Joyce; yet apart from that I saw Lacan´s concept of lalangue is appealing to understand the literary genius, which may require another particular note (about lalangue). The next day I saw there would need to be written a note about Otto Rank and Anais Nin (maybe before writing about Freud and Lacan), which further requires that I first read extensively into both. Today I wanted to look for the book Epitoma rei militaris by Vegetius, a Roman military theorist of the late 4rd century, to write about it, yet it is not available at the library at the moment but will be available in June, so I can cross this out for the very moment hell yeah. Maybe I will manage to eventually write the very important Metaphysical Note about Extreme Metal these days which will further illuminate the concept of the overman, but it occured to me today that it should be accompanied by a Metaphysical Note about Heavy Metal and I may not be specifically interested in writing that one right now. I also figured out the last weeks I am going to write notes about Stanislaw Lem, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Pessoa, Friedrich Hölderlin, Henrik Ibsen and “Peer Gynt”, Büchner vs Goethe, Bayezid Bastami, Afsed el-Chigani, K.O. Apel and Lawrence Kohlberg and the issue of post-conventionalist moral systems, Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel Levinas as well as about political economy and economics as a dismal science, as for now.
Prelude to Note about Freud and Lacan
In the interpretation of Zizek the birds in Hitchcock´s “The Birds” symbolize the Lacanian Real, the register of human reality which resists symbolisation, which is traumatic and with which no rational exchange is possible. – When I was young I was quite fond of radical and abstract theory, the more detached from reality and my immediate surroundings in terms of concept and language the better. But now I´m old and tired. The day before yesterday I took an old book by Zizek out of the shelf (the one about Kieslowski) and wanted to read it but only made it up to p.11 or so.
