Marty

Notes

Love and Freedom

I sent out a text message to my men's spirituality group that I wanted to revise to make the connection not only between love and freedom, but also to non-attachment as the violence of love. Here it is.

Fiction

4. Deep Calls to Deep

The story of how a traditional mother cast out some demons.

Notes

Why Start a Demonology Club?

James R. said to me, "Did you know that 'True Detective' pulls from two books, Eugene Thacker's 'In the Dust of This Planet' and Thomas Ligotti's 'Conspiracy Against the Human Race'?"

Fiction

3. Deep Calls to Deep

Chapter Three: The story of how the pervert's flag disavows his castration.

Notes

The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall

The outline that I wrote but won't read from when I lead.

Fiction

2. Deep Calls to Deep

Chapter Two: The story about how near what is far really is.

Fiction

1. Deep Calls to Deep

Chapter one: The story of what is deep within us speaking superficially about more than can be said.

Notes

Outline: The Numinous Lacan, or the Real as Marion's Counter-Experience

The outline of the presentation that I gave at the Lack conference.

Essays

Part 8: What to Do About Too Much Aboutness

Iconic representation lacks verisimilitude to present the absence of the Real.

Essays

Part 7: What to Do About too much Aboutness

Symbolic incursion into the Real is eternal because of the Real's absolute withdrawal from the Symbolic.

Essays

Part 6: What to Do About too much Aboutness

Love makes a clearing for the irreducible ambiguity of the Other, both the Other within and without.

Essays

Part 5: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The gap between being and knowing is imperfectly bridged by religious ritual.