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insomnia again

Filed under: dream, uncanny Tagged: myth, unconscious

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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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essentially

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...

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blind 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...

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jorge 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...

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orphan 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!...

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still 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...

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reflections 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...

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mort 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...

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wislawa 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...

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“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...

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ravel – 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...

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henk 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...

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simone 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

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italo 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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