Nietzsche 3/13: Blanchot

Annelies Schulte Nordholt, Etienne Balibar, and Patricia Dailey on the Blanchot's Nietzsche.

[clumsydad]

The points by Annelies were very helpful. I see this as connecting to a pre-language part of the brain, the old primitive nature, direct thoughts, flow ... all of this we are barely yet understand as our perceptions of ourselves and reality is very much influenced by the categorizations and flaws in our language. It aids in large, complex projects but it creates confusion in us because it's another layer in us with strange representation and social meaning, yet covering over deeper and more natural, intuitive reflective states, etc.

[fogpimp]

i've only read the basic writings of nietzsche and that was years ago i need to go back and reread and see how he infulenced blanchot

[frederickanderson]

Blanchot like doestevesky experience similar experience of a firing squad that had a tremendous effect on his mind, doestevesky reacted opposite to Blanchot.

[fogpimp]

Just started aminadab and the intro by jeff fort talks about bataille and blanchot becoming friends during the beginning of ww2

[holgerhn]

Some mixup here between serial music, John Cage and minimal music. Infelicitous.

[fogpimp]

Noticed denis hollier also holds his neck often/

[frederickanderson]

We forget how the the generations that experienced 2 world wars and the Spanish flu after, we can't relate too these experiences, language can't express the horror these generations had. Also you can't use definitions to describe the horrorrs of the holocaust or the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These philosophical people struggle to use definitions without the use of the written word or spoken.

[fogpimp]

what is with these french intellectuals choking themselves while listening to their colleagues?

[mythnow]

man I wish I was smarter, I am getting nothing from this... anyone want to hook be up with an abstract/synopsis?:D

[frederickanderson]

I think the Hebrew bible that the creator God put eternity in his heart.