Martin

Notes

Desire is a Demon

A conversation about demonology as the study of what speaks from within me more than me that my friend James turned into a dub techno sermon.

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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.

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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'?"

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The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall

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

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.

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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.

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Part 5: What to Do About too much Aboutness

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

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Part 4: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The product of the Non-Relation is irreducible ambiguity.

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Part 3:What to Do About too much Aboutness

The process of differentiation makes irreducibly ambiguous objects, but the process of identification makes equivalences by forcing difference to converge on an absent ideal form.

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Part 2: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The horror of the drive is its irreducible ambiguity.