2: The Indomitable Gaze of the Other
The cartel travels into the near-far to find new technologies of remapping the body, so that it might manifest the invisible rather than merely make visible.
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The Indomitable Gaze of the Other
The visible is foregrounded by an obscured background, so that revealing relies on what can't be seen for its presentation. But can the darkness appear in its invisibility without reducing it to the merely visible?
10. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
Henri Bergson argued that lived time was continuous but that the spatialized time of Einstein's "Block Universe" was discreet. Therefore, scientific knowing was about being's quantities rather than about being's becoming.
9. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
The quantum field is considered the most basic "reality," so that it isn't "in" anything. Whatever is without an inside is also without an outside, and therefore, without relation, but the quantum field produces both simultaneously when it emits light without a cause or an intention.
8. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
Knowing is foregrounding a temporary unity according to the "take as one" function of Set Theory against a background of what doesn't belong in the set.
7. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
The Individuation of a object can either be a convergence on a transcendent identity, or an imminent differentiation of a temporarily unified multiplicity of ever-new flows of intensities, as Giles Deluze preached.
6. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
Does the intention to know motivate knowing too much for it to be disinterested knowledge?
5. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
CS Pierce connected semiotics to ontology with his notion of "Hypostatic Abstraction." How does a system of symbolic difference relate to being's becoming? Through predicative copulation, of course.
4. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
LLMs may have code, but they can't touch the Lacanian Real, so they don't have the Symbolic either, since human language is a relation between what it discloses in the register of the Symbolic and what it hides in the register of the Real.
3. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
Jorge Luis Borges has a famous short story called "On Exactitude in Science," in which a cartographer makes a map that is as large as the territory that it covers. What can this tells us about the relation between models and the reality that they proport to disclose?
2. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known
Uncomputable problems seem to indicate that not everything can be known, especially because of their relation to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. However, it all comes does to how one interprets "incompleteness."
1. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known.
Evolution by natural selection seems to show gap's of indeterminacy within its "total" determination of niche construction. Could the "natural" selector be less "blind" than was once assumed?
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7: Deep Calls to Deep
The Cartel has breached the abandon aquarium. Something incomprehensible has move in that will change their lives in the Zone forever. But what intention has intended all of this lack of intention?
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6. Deep Calls to Deep
The Cartel decides that the abandoned aquarium might be the right place to perform their mystery cult's rites.
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The Dream Project
I'm working on a theory for a dream project. If we are prediction machines, then dreams are for scenario rehearsal. If we are more than this, then dreams are for something more as well.
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2: Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred
Are dreams for prediction machines to process information and rehearse for possible future scenarios? Or is there evidence that they may be for something more?
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1. Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred
The most direct road to the lost sacred is through the fucked up landscape of dreams. Shifting through this nighttime trash is to enjoy the warped detritus of the Real.
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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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5. Deep Calls to Deep
An exercised demon returns from the dry places with his friends to find his home cleaned and in good order.
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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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4. Deep Calls to Deep
The story of how a traditional mother cast out some demons.
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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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3. Deep Calls to Deep
Chapter Three: The story of how the pervert's flag disavows his castration.
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The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall
The outline that I wrote but won't read from when I lead.