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Dear Diary, today the mood was a little lighter, though it may have been more from exhaustion than just higher seratonin levels. For some reason, I couldn’t fall asleep until 4 AM. Then I woke up for work at 8 AM, and took for-damn-ever to get up and moving around. I walked into work with moments to spare and an unhealthy glare. The day from there was uneventful, restraining orders, mayhem on the high seas, took an ugly girl to prom.
My class, “The Genealogy of Modern Violence” is studying Nietzsche and I contributed in a small way to today’s discussion. How would the ubermensch reproduce you may be asking yourself? Well, it is quite simple; the perfect body will live for a damned long time and not need sex. For you see, the superman is not born, he is molded by the right conditions in the society he is raised. (On a side note, I do me “he” since Nietzsche saw very little respectable in women. He was fairly typical of 19th century misogynistic thinkers. “When you go to your women, take a whip” is as kind as he gets. Let’s also not forget that he may have been gay and that he may have had syphilis. But he still bears study as a pillar of thought from that era. Let’s look at all the good thoughts too, hatred for the state, hatred of religion, hatred of the herd of humanity – er, uh, maybe that’s not good. I recommend him anyway. Philosophy! Lots and lots of philosophy. Dr. O’Hara said he was a “creative thinker.”)
My gift to the enlightened reader is to recommend a book “Fashionable Nonsense, Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science” by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. For those of you unaware, there has been a sort of war between scientists and cultural studies philosophers who have been alternately claiming science is a social construct and thus not really revealing mysteries (only revelaing personal viewpoints disguised as science) but alternately using scientific terms to explain their crackpot theories. Lacan said that his phallus was equal to the square root of negative one. He also relied heavily on the toros (the surface formed by a hollow tire) to describe madness – but not using the toros as an allegory OR a metaphor. He said madness WAS a toros. If anyone needs some ammunition to fight the bullshit artists, this book will be your armory. I’ve felt that there was a lack of meaning in the works of Lacan, Irigary, Deleuze and Guattari and with lack of meaning comes a manipulation of the uninformed reader. Here is an example from Paul Virilio’s “Trans-Appearance” to prove a point:
“Traditional chronology – future, present, past – has been succeeded by CHRONOSCOPY – underexposed, exposed, overexposed. The interval of the TIME genre (the positive sign) and the interval of the SPACE genre (the negative sign, with the same name as the inscription surface of film,) are inscribed only by LIGHT, that interval of the third genre in which the zero sign means absolute speed.”
Give me a ring if you make sense of this. The lesson that I took away from this is that just because someone is talking and not making sense, it does NOT indicate that they are smarter than you. Challenge the unintelligible to make sense.
I LIKE RECESS, PICNICS AND EATING PORK AND BEANS.
My class, “The Genealogy of Modern Violence” is studying Nietzsche and I contributed in a small way to today’s discussion. How would the ubermensch reproduce you may be asking yourself? Well, it is quite simple; the perfect body will live for a damned long time and not need sex. For you see, the superman is not born, he is molded by the right conditions in the society he is raised. (On a side note, I do me “he” since Nietzsche saw very little respectable in women. He was fairly typical of 19th century misogynistic thinkers. “When you go to your women, take a whip” is as kind as he gets. Let’s also not forget that he may have been gay and that he may have had syphilis. But he still bears study as a pillar of thought from that era. Let’s look at all the good thoughts too, hatred for the state, hatred of religion, hatred of the herd of humanity – er, uh, maybe that’s not good. I recommend him anyway. Philosophy! Lots and lots of philosophy. Dr. O’Hara said he was a “creative thinker.”)
My gift to the enlightened reader is to recommend a book “Fashionable Nonsense, Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science” by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. For those of you unaware, there has been a sort of war between scientists and cultural studies philosophers who have been alternately claiming science is a social construct and thus not really revealing mysteries (only revelaing personal viewpoints disguised as science) but alternately using scientific terms to explain their crackpot theories. Lacan said that his phallus was equal to the square root of negative one. He also relied heavily on the toros (the surface formed by a hollow tire) to describe madness – but not using the toros as an allegory OR a metaphor. He said madness WAS a toros. If anyone needs some ammunition to fight the bullshit artists, this book will be your armory. I’ve felt that there was a lack of meaning in the works of Lacan, Irigary, Deleuze and Guattari and with lack of meaning comes a manipulation of the uninformed reader. Here is an example from Paul Virilio’s “Trans-Appearance” to prove a point:
“Traditional chronology – future, present, past – has been succeeded by CHRONOSCOPY – underexposed, exposed, overexposed. The interval of the TIME genre (the positive sign) and the interval of the SPACE genre (the negative sign, with the same name as the inscription surface of film,) are inscribed only by LIGHT, that interval of the third genre in which the zero sign means absolute speed.”
Give me a ring if you make sense of this. The lesson that I took away from this is that just because someone is talking and not making sense, it does NOT indicate that they are smarter than you. Challenge the unintelligible to make sense.
I LIKE RECESS, PICNICS AND EATING PORK AND BEANS.
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