Friday, January 19, 2007
Human relations must be founded on passion, if not, the terror.
"A genuine personal life ought to be created as a work, as conscious history, and thus rescued from the impervious mechanisms that at present govern everyday life."
"...the pride of knowing passion itself, from the absolute humility, I should feel before it and before it alone. I shall not appeal to its most mysterious, its harshet decrees. It would be as if I were to try to stop the course of the world, by viture of some illusory power passion has over it. Or to deny that 'each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who IS better merely expresses this same world better than the others.'" -- Andre Breton (Hegel).
This ideal of a passionate life, a life created as a work, has an enormous attraction for me. Its utter lack, in my life, is very disconcerting. I envy or admire those people, who are many, creating their life even to some meager extent based on a passion, even if it is a hard, and sometimes hated path. It is not hard to live life without a passion, but it hard to live without it when you want it, and painfully feel its lack...
"...the pride of knowing passion itself, from the absolute humility, I should feel before it and before it alone. I shall not appeal to its most mysterious, its harshet decrees. It would be as if I were to try to stop the course of the world, by viture of some illusory power passion has over it. Or to deny that 'each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who IS better merely expresses this same world better than the others.'" -- Andre Breton (Hegel).
This ideal of a passionate life, a life created as a work, has an enormous attraction for me. Its utter lack, in my life, is very disconcerting. I envy or admire those people, who are many, creating their life even to some meager extent based on a passion, even if it is a hard, and sometimes hated path. It is not hard to live life without a passion, but it hard to live without it when you want it, and painfully feel its lack...
Value.
To understand value is to understand a social practice and the discourse that is a part of it.
Halfway between the idiot and the stamp collector
Read, write, analyse, discuss, but this time not to pass exams, get a job, acquire social status, cultivate the admiration of others. No, here the effort is exquisitely selfish. Not an accumulation of data, but ideas to stimulate other ideas, questions to contrast faces. Road to action to be explored...paths forged or meandered along, as we learn to recognize monsters under their disguise and experiment the best weapons to confront them with, those that enhance our indefatigable quest for freedom.
-Bonanno
-Bonanno
The negative vanishes along with the positive it negates.
Speculative thinking compares the apparent or given form of things to the potentialities of those same things, and in so doing distinguishes the essence from their accidental state of existence. This result is achieved not through some process of mystical intuition, but by a method of conceptual cognition, which examines the process whereby each from has become what it is. Speculative thinking conceives the intellectual and material world not as a totality of fixed and stable relations, but as a becoming, and its being as a produced and a producing.
Hegel.
Hegel.
Quotes from _The Dispossessed_
"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."
"...his gentle but already formidably hermetic character might form its own ambiance, which only great strength, or great devotion, could withstand."
"...his gentle but already formidably hermetic character might form its own ambiance, which only great strength, or great devotion, could withstand."
