Sunday, 31 July 2016

This works in French

If you wish to contend the following please attend the title.
Consider the hypothesis that knowledge degenerates into religion. What religion does, then, to language, or what happens with language - without, or in failure of, the Archimedean Point - that creates religion which always threatens punishment for non-participants.
This is how we can forget the Oedipal as anything other than the resulting salience in closed systems, isolated communities that reproduce that isolation to the family unit. This has form, since it was Ahknaten's very mark on the Nile Kingdom lineage. It is, that isolation, a probable, it is that, rarity in life, early life. We cannot escape the biblical motifs and question their utility to the design, the aim, of the texts. That, too, I leave to you to explore.
What is borne of the use of the Oedipal motif, or metaphor as Lacan more usefully accedes is the only thorough apparency, is the SuperEgo. Usually that would suffice as explanation of all, at least in proposing that comparative religion - and recall the ur-text to Derrida's journey - finds recognition of what supposedly would not be found by common observation (as opposed to wise deliberation) and give humanity to some common need for religion.
This, in Derrida and Graeber especially, launches from Levi-Strauss a systematic mapping of life guided by fiduciary talk. No less the Chatter that Heidegger, and now Habermas, despises does emerge as this same accountancy. Presently, if not Pokemon Go grouping, the Selfie explosion (consider the Daesh documents for the injection of explosivity).

How is this possible?

I was going to introduce this by riffing on Jeremy Corbyn's Trident renewal remark, that he did not "believe" it was "legitimate". However I haven't the energy at this time in this piece. In sum he cannot have International Law without accepting UK Law, which has no constitution, no comparable match with codification. Further that law, the one on targetting civilians, depends on war having been declared. Not a guaranteed event in the event of a State using weapons. This obvious, there is, so to speak an extra or pre marital bastard, if this law is a wedding, a polygamous marriage of States...

Let's go to the SuperEgo.
First an anecdote. I slightly conversed with a JS Mill worshipping NHS worker (an orderly, or even a nurse and possibly a junkie). Their sadistic way of coping was astonishing, though now I fear quite ubiquitous. The conversation somehow was on penal practices, crime exactly I expect. As ever I was pushed, as the one who can be critical, to provide a better means of destroying the habits of those injurious to that Millian horde, us if not you. Unrelenting, inarticulable because entirely physical, ecstatic pleasure. That was my answer. Knowing the mind finds no state of nature as ones own mind is all one can return to. And so much intense pleasure soon becomes a burden to regain oneself enough to be someone at all. This would attract the pre-criminal. This would not be a challenge. We know so little of so much, we know so much of that little that is pure inarticulable pleasure. Exquisite in the vernacular. Especially that of Vienna.

You are now prepared with all you need to know you need to know for the main argument, or theory, that follows on.

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

A Way

I consider nothing is "all in the mind" which is all in the body.
Plainly we are born(e) into thought of thought. We are our creation in the physical world of an internal world. External occurences are taken as directly a consequence of our thoughts.
There are consequences when we believe the converse, outside in. We can only arrange them as fictions, and will resort to fiction as tool as a result.
This does begin as exercise of being in young adulthood, which must be the epicentre sought in analysis, not early "memory". We are seeking where language is known as destructured. For this is what thought was and all that memory between the epicentre and source movement is. Nothing will be other than a sample from that depth. We seek the surface of the present shaken by that long sustained blast.

This is what I would move psychoanalysis to. If I can. This is to say the analysis cannot proceed until adulthood. The young must be told that is where they are, if need be, and what may need be. I see no problem with the young, as it were, making up their epicentre for future analysis.
The best that can be done is to inform them of the analytical method, the old ways and the new so they may consider it on those problematic to them.

To be certain, I am only working from my own life. I will not be testing anything on another.

Sunday, 27 September 2015

On Land

African wilderness re-aligned to resource hungry monoculture. New Money promotes enterprise country estates as "wildlife management". Those that removed the insect stunning hedgerows. Pest management.
Land Tax isn't needed elsewhere than on empty built environments not given to biodiversity. A Land Wage for maintaining biodiversity, woods, waterways and wilderness, paid also to communities adjacent to common land, is the thing. Given the value dynamics, (un)foreseen consequences, a limit on ownership of land to a value, before Land Wage, would be required.
The insistence that loaded this polemic was an argument presented by a gunman. I do not advocate the destruction of any Red Kite, however if such consequence of wildlife tourism is a threat to wildlife, such that that raptor disrupts the teamwork of owls and pine-martens, the latter predating on grey squirrels though, like the cat, needing other nourishment, in order to hunt effectively. The quarrel with the grey is that it destroys saplings and fledglings. Gargantuan estates with Shooting tourism are not needed, the supposed business diversification of farming exceeds even bullshit of Iberia's subsidized "attractions".

Religions have their history of wilderness destruction. Niall Ferguson (FT piece) has his four horsemen of the apocalypse. One is Islam, the others are equally of a cupidity that results of humanity refined to sociopathic mimesis. Economically, the developed states, most certainly the UK, have the clatter of hooves running through public sector bureaucracy. Human Rights abuses are endorsed by sponsors of extremism in parliamentary acts and absence thereof, with judiciary often performing the commitments supposedly promised by unions.*
The difference is that our secular democracy holds open society. It's better than the alternative, fully theocratic/autocracy. We live with a pitiless worship of jobs and wretched aggressions of wealth defenders.
If we can take on religions, we can take up better ways of life. Else we live in torture, a questionable nature that is certainly less Montaigne and Gramsci and more Bacon and Fanon. James Baldwin's last line of The Fire Next Time is this one, too, as a question of our planetary habitat, the UK as a particular example.

Saturday, 19 September 2015

See No Evil/Static Displays (more&faster)

A cliche redacted, apparently, from public thought by the NHS: the human baby, comparative to many non-domesticated mammals, is too large for the birth canal. Explanations in abundance. A fair guess notes dietary habits, obsessions nurturing styles of pregnancy that exaggerate adaptations to vulnerabilities -  all doubtlessly occassioned of evolutionary progression by mere survival of babies qua birthcanals and variations thereof.
So I'm told that mothers with "low weight"  post-gestation pregnancies are placed under extraordinary stress of punitive action for non-compliance in regime that can decide on premature delivery - on that the premise, quelle surprise, the child's heartrate will be erratic. Probably cohorts of data pronounce even a natural birth after such attentions results in a child unmanageable in the brave new world, unlike the careers of eminent specialists in healthcare.

At this point I point you in the direction of Arrival Of The Fittest by Andreas Wagner. A better understatement regarding BigPharma, GMos, isn't available to the luckily literate.

Talk about the weather. The gaseous composition of the atmosphere, chemical content of waterborne pollutants, fluctuates more erratically, with greater novelty, in our time than even of the recent few decades, never mind the greater past. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - which, though applied to everything, only matches gaseous related actions - and entropy (computational activity for ease of thought) dictates huge libraries of historical record will not assist weather forecasting. Heaven help the MoD with it's Met Office, we may pray. Yet as fracking destroys water resources, inflicts cancers and other disabilities, the MoD can assure the governing that a Rwandan response is unnecessary because we have the NHS (and better yet put it the hands of Corporate conductors, link Volkswagen with Monsanto - You can be sure of Shell...)

Straw Dogs by John N Gray, and his reading of EO Wilson, has aided this agitation.

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Question Science, it produces politics

How do you hold yourself to identity? You are a descendent, for the most part, of migrants, at least distantly. You are the child of a one State, at least imaginatively. Less fertile soil, more collapsed environment, congretates in memories of blown sails, watered horses, days buried in your flesh of your genelines traversals. Closer, memories of economic distortions, wars, home in on you sublime as an animal companion, or worker clusters, in actions and sounds.
The migrant sparks the flame of these unrepresentations, maybe electric ersatz, in the image-native. Inherited pressures find the thought of nation, image. The failed, erased nation, image.
Oil is finished. Unlikely siblings of it's crude work, Algeria and Norway, know this. Nations have gained Holy significance, propellant vapourising the blood pools filled by religions, that peculiarly even the "highly educated" seek heroic status - the need for crisis to be quelled - in defence of this agency considered more valuable than comprehending the practical decisions and happy accidents of human behaviour that remain in language, living.
That monotheism pumps will to ignorance is an unaffordable taxation without representation, a "No" to Liberty. The God of unimagination is killing it's subjects, choking itself for kicks.