Rustle in the Bush

Blegh. Did not read as much as I intend to. It’s fine, Now I’m going to read at least one chapter of The Accursed Share in 2-3 days so I can refocus my thought around consumption. So here’s what Marx has given me:

New direction! A fire under my ass! Thank Nature for Spinoza! Because, he’s given me the tools to readjust my thinking when it comes to totalities and affects. Deleuze too, for allowing one to keep an open spirit constantly engaged with creating new connections and reconceptualizing ideas. The interconnectedness of all things has always appeared obvious to me. I have a vivid memory from Central California circa 2013, gazing towards the sky of a land where bodies of smog pass for clouds. I remember the sun, and thinking that distance was the only thing that separated me and the sky. That I shared oxygen from the trees, and that they touched me, they touched inside me, filled me up, made me wet and slippery. This seems to be an obvious fact. I believe this is something I need to investigate with Leibniz, perspective being constantly engaged in the complete world even as a particular, Indra’s net again. I picked that idea up somewhere. Geworfenheit!

Mostly, I’ve been trying to avoid Marx for reasons I think are as entirely avoidable as slavery is in the Bible. These are the historical motors and reason oriented tendencies I see in his end phase of the Communist project. I am probably talking out of my ass but I really see this in Kapital only. I truly believe there is a strong and defendable messianic interpretation.

However, like I said, it’s easily avoided if you’re not thinking muddled-headed like. My focus this next year is going to be revolving back towards anthropology and technology as driving concepts. It’s practically unavoidable for Anti-Oedipus. It allows for Pragmatics to sneak its way in as well. It will be to help balance out my interest in metaphysics, in so far as I’m looking to apply MP to broader and more ‘objective’ applications. Steigler is going to be very useful I think, yet probably best avoided until the summer.(Heidegger too). I’m hoping to develop two ideas a little bit, because America’s rich history has been on my mind. Space 1. Skateboarding, sport of deterritotialziztion. Pools-culture-corporatize-streets 2. The failure of gender troubles in USA as a failure of language, including pronouns genderless language. We have little formal terms to address others generally. (D+G refereed to each other using ‘vous’, noted in The AO Papers) (Need to read HL Mencken’s American Language Study)

What I’m reading now looks like this, here is the looming Choasophy:

The Gay Science/Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft– Work of Energy “One must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star” manifesting itself. I read it during free time at work. Ungracious comments about women. Good thing he’s able to preface his bad history with women! Alway great psychological insights

Repitition, Kierkegaard – For part of the slow grind to really comprehending D+R. The writing is lucid, funny and quick. It makes me hungry. Set up as contrasted/opposed to recollection a la Plato. Is repetition then, a study of more pragmatic psychology? And the newness of the same instead of the despair of a fruitless gasping at the gas leaving your tank. Alliteration is the strong point of English. It is subtitled ‘A Venture in Experimenting Psychology’. Does this refer to his psychological experiments on the young man or the psychology of experimenting i.e. the practical sense-making of the event? Either way, it also raises central concerns about movement, speed, and being. Thus, the latter seems more correct. Which leads me to…

Plato’s Parmenides – Being! What about it? Plurality? Forms? Let’s figure it out. Haha Zeno’s gay for Parm. I’m working my way through the argument flows with the SEP. I’m making a section of my whiteboard, perhaps I’ll upload it later.nFascinating stuff. Whitehead quote starting to make more sense.

The Accursed Share, Bataille – A new critique of political-economy. A real stress on the important of the phrase and a working towards it. It focuses on anthropological directions and vital forces. Consumption and waste. I find it all coming together here. ‘The Meaning of General Economy’ has some stuff that’s strikingly similar to Heid’s ‘Essay Concerning Technology’. I think it’s gonna be fun. As fun as Wall-E can get , I guess.

Book of Job – Gonna check it out, I’ve read some today and the writing is phenomenal. I see why he was so interested in it his whole life haha. I’m using The New American Bible so I may cross check with the King James soon.

Remember only so much grass can grow; until the next Ice Age!

Trying to familiarize with art! Cain Fleeing Before Jehovah’s Curse-Cormon