Though Matt said, “I began to think ‘essence’ was a dirty word last semester,”
Liszt feels like fitting music for Part Four. Beautiful even if you don’t believe in a transcendental plane. (Don’t be quick to discount it altogether…)

“What does deep midnight have to say?
‘From Sleep, from sleep–
from deepest dream I made my way
The world is deep,
And deeper than the grasp of day.
Deep is pain-
Joy- deeper still than misery:
Yet all joy wants eternity,
wants deep, deep eternity.’ ” (Z, 264)

Last class tomorrow. Sad day.
I’ll be in the SLC early to help set up amplifiers, projectors, drum kits etc.

There will be pizza.

Enjoy it! And sleep.

Hyperchaos and the dice throw

Hey All,

If you’re interested in Speculative Realism and/or hyperchaos, Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude is the book to begin with:

https://anonfiles.com/file/971051f81e3eed071888ac33442683b1

He speaks on contemporary ontology, the imagination and music (!) in this interview:

https://anonfiles.com/file/9e7c537bd55d180d7c03f5f0b28e00a7

“There are no miracles for Leibniz, because every miracle is just a law more complicated than the one we already know. And in the same way…(with hyperchaos) there is never disorder, because disorder is just an order other than the one you expect.” (Meillassoux, 2)

“Oh sky above me, you pure and lofty sky! This is your purity is to me, that there is no eternal spider and spider web of reason: that you are my dance floor for divine dice throws and dice players.” (Z, 132)

Chaos and the dicethrow is the presence of the “divine” in Zarathustra. The overman embraces chaos; it’s what produces difference in eternal return. It’s the release of the destructive -> creative force necessary for affirmative becoming.

I’ll be on campus before and after class today to help with projects.

Looking forward 🙂

Misogynist? Genius? Surrealist?

I hope you’re all enjoying part 3, where the prose gets psychedelic.

“Everything is still sleeping, he said; even the sea sleeps…but it breathes warmly, that I feel. And I also feel that it is dreaming.”

“I climbed, I climbed, I dreamed, I thought…and all the whispering? Was I dreaming? Was I waking?”

Sea dreams, vampiric spiders, the dwarf… does Zarathustra belong in the canon of Surrealist literature?

Very important that you read “The Second Aspect of Eternal Return” (p 68-70) in Deleuze before next class!

Eternal Return

 

“Moment, a long eternal lane stretches backward: behind us lies an eternity. Must not whatever can already happen have passed this way before? Must not whatever can happen, already have happend, been done, passed by before? And if everything has already been here before, what do you think of this moment? Must this gateway not too already have been here? Are not all things firmly knotted together in such a way that this moment draws it all things to come? Therefore itself as well?…must we not return eternally?” (Z part 3, 125)

“Time is the density of infinity.” (Natalie)

So many great minds in this class…

Assignments for Next Class

-Read up to “The Shadow” in part four.

-Bring in a rough draft of your project.

– ** read “The Second Aspect of Eternal Return…” (p 68-70) in Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Hybrid of plant and ghost”

Film still from Jean Epstein’s “La glace à trois faces”
1927

Pure Immanence

https://anonfiles.com/file/ed41e5926dc2fe00cb1c7152e4ff7e22

“Pure Immanence” by Deleuze. Very short, very beautiful.

Luminous poetry on his theory of immanence. Relevant to our talk on the earth/body/soul.
There’s even a little biography of Nietzsche at the end…

Sonic Eternal Return

Listen to this in its entirety.
With headphones, lights out, eyes closed.

“This is why the eternal return must be thought of as a synthesis; a synthesis of time and its dimensions…a synthesis of becoming and the being.” Deleuze, 48

Assignments for Thursday: Read part two, listen to “Sitting in a Room”, remember that we’re meeting in the Spiritual Life Center and not the Lizard Lounge.

Enjoy!

Naturalism, speculation of “God”

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”

From “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

I’m imagining Zarathustra listening to “Naturals Not in it” while leaving Motley Cow. (even though good Nietzschiens believe there’s nothing outside of nature…)

“Who wants to rule anymore? Who wants to obey anymore? Both are too burdensome.”

On the New Idol

“Often mud sits on the throne..smash the windows instead and leap into the open!”
“There, where the state ends, only there begins the human being who is not superfluous.”

On the Flies of the Market Place

“Away from the market place and fame all greatness takes place.”
“They are sycophants and snivelers…they punish you for all your virtues.”
“Flee, my friend, into your solitude and where raw, strong air blows!”

Rebel power. Dig it.