Tradition & the Individual Talent
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The arrival of Corpsey in London?
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I would never mix with a benzo and I would never take more than 150mg, so I don't have any worries.
The usual recreational patterns (300mg+ to get a nod going) are rather dangerous in general, with seizures and such, plus the quick buildup of tolerance. The subtle effects are much better and you can learn to pay attention to them, and in noticing, come to psychically amplify them.
I recommend trying 100mg + a strong cup of coffee in the morning before breakfast. Don't eat anything afterward unless you need to (e.g. nausea) and only then have a few tortilla chips or some such. That's the good stuff.
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I do I just haven't announced it yet
What I am interested in most is the idea of the artist's self-obliteration and replacement with the World.
That he goes beyond existing systems, straddles many systems and tries to acess blooming buzzing confusions to synthesize new systems that fit the present better
"The poet's mind in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
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"Existence creates itself by an endless chain of suggestions ricocheting off each other"
McLuhan links Eliot's depersonalization imperative (the great artist obliterates his own personality and replaces it with the world-network's) to Zen Buddhist ideas about breaking down the barriers between self and other
McLuhan links Eliot's depersonalization imperative (the great artist obliterates his own personality and replaces it with the world-network's) to Zen Buddhist ideas about breaking down the barriers between self and other
I just re-read Penman's piece on Baudelaire for the LRB and he suggests seeing Baudelaire as "a staging post or bridge or border crossing" rather than truly modern. A figure on the cusp of modernity due to lacking the doubt necessary to chip away at literature's "I".
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I've been thinking about this because it comes up in this:
> McLuhan’s saw that humanity now existed in a post-historical all-at-onceness of changing and rebounding proportions and cycles of retrievals and obsolescences of old and new
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The past collapses from linear time to a spatial metaphor of archives and documents to be parsed through, any of which could be reinvigorated and brought alive.
And this atemporal or transtemporal perspective lets you also see the present with a new lens, one which is not merely enacting the terms of its paradigm but is positioning the paradigm as an object in itself. It is a self-consciousness
And this atemporal or transtemporal perspective lets you also see the present with a new lens, one which is not merely enacting the terms of its paradigm but is positioning the paradigm as an object in itself. It is a self-consciousness
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The actor, in the sense of "one who acts," is deeply time-situated. He does without reflection or self-consciousness because of the personal history that has led him there. The writer tries to understand the action and its history and how the history connects to the action. This is why Bourdieu and his habitus are one of the great writerly contributions of the 20th century. They are a paradigm for understanding paradigms.
You're not bothered by the antisemitism then?
