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ASIAN EMOTICON
“The narrators and authors examined here often “study” both literature and philosophy in order to remove them from their perilous metaphysical foundations. In this way, Hillyer argues, the “study-novel” emerges as a basic paradigm of the disappearance of literature, a new category of literary creation marked by Agamben’s dispute with Blanchot.”

“The narrators and authors examined here often “study” both literature and philosophy in order to remove them from their perilous metaphysical foundations. In this way, Hillyer argues, the “study-novel” emerges as a basic paradigm of the disappearance of literature, a new category of literary creation marked by Agamben’s dispute with Blanchot.”

"You go around sniffing out all the symptomatic actions in your vicinity thus reducing everyone to the level of sons and daughters who blushingly admit the existence of their faults. Meantime you remain on top as the father, sitting pretty."

Jung to Freud, letter, 1912 (via jujutsu-with-zizek)

"A favourite but mystifying example is that of Hoess, weeping over music played for him by a Jewish orchestra that he was about to have murdered."

Jefferson, Mark. “What is Wrong with Sentimentality?” Mind, New Series, Vol. 92, No. 368 (Oct., 1983), pp. 519-529.

 

"every text conceals a secret, hidden understains left behind by the author in his necessarily bad faith."

Adam Phillips (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
I don’t have anything to say about this screenshot, apart from the chain of delivery. Maybe about the flattening of bodies.  I listened to the interview with Bersani and, only having read a few quotes from him here and there across the internet, wanted to read some of his work. So I found a .pdf of this book, The Freudian Body, and made it into an .epub for my tablet. I had no idea that the digits of the person who scanned the whole book were visible. Nor can we know that the scanner was the person who uploaded it to the site that I found it on. Nor can we say for how long this .pdf has been floating around the internet. But it was first a physical book in a library. And that hand is, presumably, still active as a hand. It’s sort of ghostly looking at it, as if the screen had translated the experience of once touching a real page. 

I don’t have anything to say about this screenshot, apart from the chain of delivery. Maybe about the flattening of bodies. 

I listened to the interview with Bersani and, only having read a few quotes from him here and there across the internet, wanted to read some of his work. So I found a .pdf of this book, The Freudian Body, and made it into an .epub for my tablet. I had no idea that the digits of the person who scanned the whole book were visible. Nor can we know that the scanner was the person who uploaded it to the site that I found it on. Nor can we say for how long this .pdf has been floating around the internet.

But it was first a physical book in a library. And that hand is, presumably, still active as a hand. It’s sort of ghostly looking at it, as if the screen had translated the experience of once touching a real page.