love is stronger than death
Filed under: love, revolutionaries, spirit, uncanny, violence Tagged: christ, compassion, death, grace, jesus, kenosis, mystery, myth, sacred heart, sacrifice
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If only a change of heart could magically repair the concrete effects of centuries of evil and dispossession overnight… It can’t, but thank you, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, for holding on to hope; for...
View Articleblind willie johnson – dark was the night, cold was the ground
“Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” is a gospel-blues song written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson, probably recorded in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental, featuring Johnson’s...
View Articlejorge luis borges – the moon
There is such solitude in that gold. The moon of these nights is not the moon The first Adam saw. Long centuries Of human vigil have filled her with An old lament. See. She is your mirror. Translation...
View Articleorphan drift this thursday at bolo’bolo
What do you get if you mix equal parts cutting edge continental philosophy, voodoo, psychedelics, underground dance music, cybernetics and multimedia experimentation? The notorious Orphan Drift!...
View Articlestill so far to go, south africa
Yesterday, on the day those in control would later turn Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s life support system off, allowing him his final, politically expedient release after months held captive in a...
View Articlereflections on mandela’s legacy
Photo: Adrian Steirn, 2011 Some links and excerpts from commentary that I have found to be worth reading today (I’ll add to this whenever I come across anything interesting – if anyone reading this has...
View Articlemort garson – i’ve been over the rainbow
The perfect song for South Africa today. From the album The Wozard Of Iz, released on A&M in 1968. “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theatre!” ― Gilles Deleuze/Felix Guattari...
View Articlewislawa szymborska – consolation
Darwin. They say he read novels to relax, But only certain kinds: nothing that ended unhappily. If anything like that turned up, enraged, he flung the book into the fire. True or not, I’m ready to...
View Article“if i get killed, please don’t bury my soul”
The New York Times recently published an evocative long-form article penned by John Jeremiah Sullivan about the enigmatic Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, woman blues musicians who haunt the archive...
View Articleravel – shéhérazade, part II – la flûte enchantée
(Bożena Bujnicka – soprano, Paweł Sommer – piano) A song cycle by Ravel, first performed in 1904. More information about the composition can be found HERE. The shade is soft and my master sleeps...
View Articlehenk oosterling on science, myth, and deleuze and guattari’s dogon egg
Originally published in: “Oedipus and the Dogon: Myth of Modernity interrogated” in: H. Kimmerle (ed.). I, We and Body. Amsterdam 1989, p.27-45. Dogon egg Let’s return to our initial question: does...
View Articlesimone weil – the ring of gyges
REMEMBER MARIKANA … We set things aside without knowing we are doing so; that is precisely where the danger lies. Or, which is still worse, we set them aside by an act of the will, but by an act of the...
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Filed under: philosophy Tagged: beachball of death, computer love, humour, myth, sisyphus
View Articleitalo calvino – the distance of the moon (1965)
‘Like many a critical humanist before him, from Michel de Montaigne to Jonathan Swift, Calvino seems to wonder if our best intellectual efforts, even the sciences, fall subject to “the foibles and...
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