January 2011
5 posts
A Grub Street Hack: Nietzsche's Problem with... →
This is why Nietzsche presents the dialectic as the speculation of the pleb, as the way of thinking of the slave: the abstract thought of contradiction then prevails over the concrete feeling of positive difference, reaction over action, revenge and ressentiment take the place of aggression….
A Grub Street Hack: The French Reaction to the... →
agrubstreethack:
This article presents an interesting overview of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The following is an abstract from the article recording some of the reaction Anti-Oedipus received following publication. Particularly interesting is the second paragraph, where Lacan and Badiou both disavow…
“There is a tendency to invoke pain as an argument against existence; this way of...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche & Philosophy p. 130
(This other perspective on pain, pain as stimulant to life, is the essence of sorcery)
“Bad conscience is the conscience that multiplies its pain, which has found a...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche & Philosophy p. 129 (via digitalpidgin)
mattermedia: What expert judgment, in art, could... →
mattermedia:
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment. What expert judgment, in art, could ever…