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Hymettos, Attica
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (Cube of Zoroaster)
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (Cube of Zoroaster)
Here, 'ascesis' is described by means of 'living' in order to unbind it from the (religious, spiritual, moral, athletic, etc.) teloi which often restrict it, thereby making possible the conception of novel forms of ascesis.
January 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Here, 'ascesis' is described by means of 'living' in order to unbind it from the (religious, spiritual, moral, athletic, etc.) teloi which often restrict it, thereby making possible the conception of novel forms of ascesis.
The second book of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe ends with Daphnis and Chloe swearing oaths of love to one another. Initially, Daphnis professes his commitment to Chloe with Pan as his witness, whereas Chloe professes her commitment with the Nymphs as her witness. Chloe asks Daphnis to ...
January 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The second book of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe ends with Daphnis and Chloe swearing oaths of love to one another. Initially, Daphnis professes his commitment to Chloe with Pan as his witness, whereas Chloe professes her commitment with the Nymphs as her witness. Chloe asks Daphnis to ...
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“Foolishness, anxiety (“heartbreak”), fear, and fright which I constantly experience in my body, in my flesh…”
A man describes his symptoms to the sun god Shamash in ancient Assyria.
He then exports his experience onto a figurine he has made as part of the treatment. “It is removed from my body!”
A man describes his symptoms to the sun god Shamash in ancient Assyria.
He then exports his experience onto a figurine he has made as part of the treatment. “It is removed from my body!”
January 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“Foolishness, anxiety (“heartbreak”), fear, and fright which I constantly experience in my body, in my flesh…”
A man describes his symptoms to the sun god Shamash in ancient Assyria.
He then exports his experience onto a figurine he has made as part of the treatment. “It is removed from my body!”
A man describes his symptoms to the sun god Shamash in ancient Assyria.
He then exports his experience onto a figurine he has made as part of the treatment. “It is removed from my body!”
This conversation from "The Eight Mountains" (a beautiful film btw) calls to mind this statement from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §116).
January 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This conversation from "The Eight Mountains" (a beautiful film btw) calls to mind this statement from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §116).
I recently learned that there were stylite ascetics who inhabited a Byzantine-era? fortification atop the Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens (according to local testimonies as well as accounts from Edward Dodwell and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell)
December 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I recently learned that there were stylite ascetics who inhabited a Byzantine-era? fortification atop the Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens (according to local testimonies as well as accounts from Edward Dodwell and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell)
πάντως γὰρ οὐδεὶς Ἔρωτα ἔφυγεν ἤ φεύξεται, μέχρι ἄν κάλλος ᾖ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ βλέπωσιν. - Longus
December 9, 2024 at 4:59 PM
πάντως γὰρ οὐδεὶς Ἔρωτα ἔφυγεν ἤ φεύξεται, μέχρι ἄν κάλλος ᾖ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ βλέπωσιν. - Longus
I am sad that it took me so long to discover Wittgenstein, as I continuously find in his work lucid and concise formulations of concepts that are rendered with obscurity by other thinkers. For instance, from Culture and Value, "Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. But only...
December 8, 2024 at 9:28 PM
I am sad that it took me so long to discover Wittgenstein, as I continuously find in his work lucid and concise formulations of concepts that are rendered with obscurity by other thinkers. For instance, from Culture and Value, "Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. But only...
"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. ...
December 1, 2024 at 6:42 PM
"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. ...
"To think from the under commons is to affirm the primacy of mobile life, of a common force that “comes under” the World, threatening its mapping, its structures of power, its civil and political society, its individuations and situation of bodies in grids of the proper." - Alex Dubilet
November 26, 2024 at 7:42 PM
"To think from the under commons is to affirm the primacy of mobile life, of a common force that “comes under” the World, threatening its mapping, its structures of power, its civil and political society, its individuations and situation of bodies in grids of the proper." - Alex Dubilet
Kant's marginalia in his copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysics
November 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Kant's marginalia in his copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysics
“So it's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves...
November 22, 2024 at 11:41 AM
“So it's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves...
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present” (Wittgenstein, Tractatus, §6.4311)
November 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present” (Wittgenstein, Tractatus, §6.4311)
In Diogenes' account of ascesis which is recorded in Diogenes Laertius 6.70-71, he describes the manner according to which 'bodily ascesis' corresponds to the formation of 'representations' [φαντασίαι] which permit one to 'turn with ease towards works of virtue.' Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé provides...
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
In Diogenes' account of ascesis which is recorded in Diogenes Laertius 6.70-71, he describes the manner according to which 'bodily ascesis' corresponds to the formation of 'representations' [φαντασίαι] which permit one to 'turn with ease towards works of virtue.' Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé provides...
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Gustav Landauer
“Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism.”
“Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism.”
November 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Gustav Landauer
“Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism.”
“Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism.”
“Heresy does not begin empirically with the refusal of the World or of History as we vaguely say, but really with indifference towards the World […] heretical Identity is such by immanence and not by opposition or relation to something else.” - François Laruelle, Future Christ, p. 44
November 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
“Heresy does not begin empirically with the refusal of the World or of History as we vaguely say, but really with indifference towards the World […] heretical Identity is such by immanence and not by opposition or relation to something else.” - François Laruelle, Future Christ, p. 44
San Giuseppe - Anonymous, c. 1700–1799
November 18, 2024 at 12:32 PM
San Giuseppe - Anonymous, c. 1700–1799
Of the 95 lines Diogenes Laertius' doxography of Anacharsis, 7-8 are dedicated to his fear of the sea. The first reads: "Learning that the thickness of a ship was equivalent to four fingers, he said that those sailing were [only] this far away from death."
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Of the 95 lines Diogenes Laertius' doxography of Anacharsis, 7-8 are dedicated to his fear of the sea. The first reads: "Learning that the thickness of a ship was equivalent to four fingers, he said that those sailing were [only] this far away from death."
Some moments from this summer
November 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Some moments from this summer
Hold your voice quiet in your mouths (Hymn to Helios, 1)
And the earth and the forest roar (Works and Days, 508)
What can be shown cannot be said (Tractatus, 4.1212)
An echo, latent in the rock, resound[s] (Delphic Paean, 17)
And the earth below smile[s] back in all its radiance (To Demeter, 14)
November 17, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Hold your voice quiet in your mouths (Hymn to Helios, 1)
And the earth and the forest roar (Works and Days, 508)
What can be shown cannot be said (Tractatus, 4.1212)
An echo, latent in the rock, resound[s] (Delphic Paean, 17)
And the earth below smile[s] back in all its radiance (To Demeter, 14)
The concept of 'leisure' or 'idleness' (σχολή) is at the center of the ascetic practices of the Cynics. Diogenes is claimed to have stated that 'good men' are 'images of gods, and love the business [ἀσχολία] of the idle [σχολάζω].' Antisthenes’ speech in Xenophon’s Symposium (4.34-44) ...
November 16, 2024 at 7:28 AM
The concept of 'leisure' or 'idleness' (σχολή) is at the center of the ascetic practices of the Cynics. Diogenes is claimed to have stated that 'good men' are 'images of gods, and love the business [ἀσχολία] of the idle [σχολάζω].' Antisthenes’ speech in Xenophon’s Symposium (4.34-44) ...
'world' names a form-of-living-in-common, a shared form-of-living
November 15, 2024 at 2:40 PM
'world' names a form-of-living-in-common, a shared form-of-living
