why we should

no enough words means we will always have too many Now…then— “to self the world” and “to world the self” are not the same, not the same as in an identical tautology, nor a tautological identity. They are not a reversible reaction, even if they recursively feed themselves with outcomes. Their trajectories are bothered confoundedly, but in that they differ…

Haeckel, Ernst. The Riddle of the Universe. London: Watts & Co., 1900. Translated from the original 1899 German, Die Welträthsel, by Joseph McCabe. With glossary. I heard Ernst Haeckel invented the word ecology (among many biological terms). I’ve never checked that out, but remember this for later. He was a promoter of Darwinism in Germany but many in anglophone may…

I’ve said that values are an effort, which if recognised are raised as virtues — it is important to realise that many efforts are not perceived, not even taken for granted, and even if perceived, may not be seen as an effort, where efforts are not (allowed to be) recognised (among us). As we self the world among others doing…

Recently I subscribed to Structure of Desire after reading The Body Keeps the Fascism: on Jung, White Innocence, and the War for the Unconscious. I enjoyed it even where I disagreed. On subscribing one usually gets a welcome email. It is an email subscription after all. It was a very good email. I’ll have to go and look at mine…

Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.” I think Slavoj Žižek describes it correctly, but is wrong about the dates. Displaced belief is the basic compromise of 'modernity' which goes back into the late paleolithic. Well before Žižek’s example of Luther, well before Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Greek…

My main concern is not that a structure* is judged to be good/bad/X, or is good/bad/X because it is a structure, but that certain agents live and move through the world to suit themselves without negotiating their way, thus producing structures that suit the common moves narcissists make, even performing or doing 'structures' that can be in a confounded conflict…