Now I’m onto A Meditation on Transgression. A new article but my reading so far has turned my thoughts on the death of god upside down. I’ll keep reading.
This article could be worth a read at some point. If writing is a contemplation of death then it is also the killing of god and the removal of limits. In the absence of the writing self to the audience, which, in turn has not been born at the moment of writing, the subject is [...]
I’m working on a concept proposed by Battaile that transgression, limits, and the death of god are connected. A friend sent me a link to a post on Larval Subjects, some of which I quote here. “As such, the death of God signifies first and most fundamentally the end of the primacy of the One [...]
I crossed a threshold yesterday. I’m now over the 10 000 word hurdle. It’s kind of funny because I’m now getting concerned that I’m not going to fit everything in. I read an article last week that had me a bit excited about the intersection of transgression and subjectivity. In particular this idea of the [...]
So I’m reading about subject creation today putting together some words for my thesis and it struck me the efforts fundamentalist religions go to ensure adherence from their followers. Mark Poster says that a post-structuralist understanding of the subject is that the subject is never fixed or fully sutured. Of course the working of power [...]
THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU: “I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself. I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made [...]
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | Blogger fined for ‘menacing’ rant: “A blogger who ‘let off steam’ about the way he was treated by police has been convicted of posting a grossly offensive and menacing message. Gavin Brent, 24, from Holywell, Flintshire, was fined £150 with £364 costs by magistrates [...]