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So where is the real?

This passage is from the bible - it's the betrayal of Judas, with a kiss... Also, saying that hate is alien to the Troll seems strange, given the evidence.

isn't k-punk himself kind of a grey vampire?

There's a lot of good stuff there - but what is he responding to?

I liked the grey vampires too...

k-punk's rhetoric is amazing: From year zero! to the promised land!

What she said.

but lifestyle choices are important, and so is intellectual self-help... and so are all of those things... i cannot really pursue this point for reasons that should be obvious - there are certain shapes that cast shadows. this website is amazing: http://omegle.com/

smiling like a mad person.

The idea that you need to swing into total corruption... what is total corruption? Not the opposite of purity, and not the Marquis de Sade necessarily, but the fact of your *real* conditions in this world, which are: solitude, loneliness, sometimes a kind of savage joy, half-remembered desires...

You should read that book again Dominic.

I really want to read Celine... and Dostoevsky again. I'm quite surprised by Middlemarch. Also Heidegger, what a terrible writer. And you can't select the "Complete Works of Freud" - this is absurd! I think there are two kinds of books: night books, and day books...

I am a cynical nihilist. I am continually asserting these values!

You can do what you want... just don't pretend that there isn't a libidinal investment in it, i.e., that it is itself fun, and not being conducted in the name of Truth and Revolution.

I agree... I think nobody should be banned.

Will there even be a Birkbeck?

Socrates also had an internalized troll - his "daemon" who had no coherent point of view, but who used to attack him whenever he was about to do/say something wrong... All the great figures in history have been trolls in some way... Socrates, Jesus, HMLT... There's a distinction between...

K-punk will tell us.

What I mean is: I don't think that question can be answered. There are no criteria for answering it, other than moral (parish) criteria that we might attempt to rule on, but then what we would have done is to set ourselves up as authorities over values and this would be quite a consequent move...

Korb: Burroughs was really into him, if I'm not mistaken... One thing that I think increasingly strongly is that overly-scientific terminology and jargon (such as Badiou's) is highly anti-philosophical: philosophy has to take place in the spaces in-between languages ("paroles") not through the...