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i feel like i'm getting stuck in a maze thinking about this. there's a layer too where organic self-expression is an oxymoron. where you, yourself is not organic. for example, you cannot escape your interests, brain, your memories, your cognitive patterns, which are all impressed on you by...

do you like the arbitrary or not? is Joyce celebrating it, pointing it out, or is he trying to overload some system into implosion?

we argue because we presuppose that one of us can be right, otherwise it's pointless, boring.

suspended thinks you have an alien probably solipsistic system. but is it a system or is it a project, a collective but self-contained program of working towards the same thing as anyone else is working on in the bigger "culture?" i think it's the latter. i think we know, because this is what...

i lost my thread now

I was talking figuratively, like we have different instincts for the good and the right, different noses

i think i'm making my way towards your thought paerhaps obliquely

i'm fine with not seeing eye to eye with people about what is good and right, that's part of the fun. but it sort of loses its meaning, doesn't it, if we're all just flailing at the air. there has to be something that can be worked towards.

sure we're arbitrary but the question is if there's anything outside ourselves that isn't. we all know we're cobbled togehter by some random constellation of cultural social political situations coinciding with our birth and upbringing and so on that we all have different noses and blind spots...

I'm not into tattoos. I'm with Neo Rauch who say that they're "emblems of an empty soul."

appreciate the gesture woopsie, I will at some point

Jack you heartless bastard

I think Titane would file nicely under this category. Something about the post-human freud thing seemed very fresh and it unfolded in interesting ways but the whole thing was so sprawling and disjunct it was hard to form a stable opinion about it. Interesting thoughts about Last Night in Soho...

It is set it Copenhagen. And no, it doesn't!

it's actually the only bit of Kierkegaard I've read

here!

yes father

I liked the eastern part and de pijp. Not knowing much about the city I booked a room way up noord in one of those new buildings. Very depressing area. It was described by my host as “the hip Part of the city”

I’ve actually not worn them here out of fear of getting run over by a tram. Those things are terrifying. Same in Lisbon.

I walked 24 kilometers yesterday around Amsterdam.