[...]ne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strategy of survival at any cost

(="ppl">="ppl">Morton echoing the cliche of artists wanna do magic='lgc'>:) “art is demonic”='lgc'>: it emanates (not designed) from beyond sense that the artist is not in charge of, d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous ="trms">causative flicker
='lgc'>~ ‘art='lgc'> = charisma’ ='lgc'>[= cause ='and'>& effect='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morton='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='thdf'>bad idea of) art ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> charismatic ="trms">causality

force-like ="trms">animal magnetism

magic='lgc'> = ="trms">causality ='lgc'>+ illusion

appearance and essence are two ="trms">different sides of Mobius strip

(pre-neolithic ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*we live in a ="trms">world of tricksters='strcls'>* (raindrops are tricksters,,,)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> incomprehensible charisma of kitsch

(the objects in my room contain a palpable enjoyment that is without me, found objects that spray charismatic ="trms">causality ='lgc'>[without devotion or trust='lgc'>])

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(Zizek's) ="ppl">Lacan four discourses via porn actress facial ="trms">stages='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- ecstatic state ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> overwhelmed
="lstsrd">2- ="trms">serious ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hard work, ="trms">instrumental control
="lstsrd">3- boredom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ignorance, in="trms">difference
="lstsrd">4- mocking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this all you can do, smile


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body...
how to feed it
when to fast
how to soothe
moisturize
let go
heal
you can't grasp your body once and for all ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one can only bear witness and offer testimony (='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>this is why ="trms">writing is so often bound up with illness, “="trms">writer='lgc'> = invalid”)

cultural phantasms of bodily mutation

the body never stays put long enough to form self-identity ='lgc'>--(='thdf'>this is why)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our ="trms">ancestors used to fast-forward and just lose it ='lgc'>[transcending the body='lgc'>]

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in Dostoevsky
body is variously insulted and humiliated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjected to injury (an injury capable of ="trms">language and disclosure)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idiocy offered a delicate conflagration of soma ='lgc'>+ psyche

illness='lgc'>: the stealth master (the teacher whose lesson is unremittingly opaque yet purposeful)

(when you get hurt ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) body='lgc'>: “Honey, I’m home, I am your home.”

your body fighting for you
healing without cure

illness ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>--> essentially related to the experience of injustice ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= your Geworfenheit
="lsts lst1">• illness visits you at will and does what it wants to your body (stinging surfaces you didn’t know you had)
="lsts lst1">•illness gives access to the devotional mode of surrender (abandoning to itself something other than the self)
="lsts lst1">•illness brings with it an alternative ="trms">system of ecstasy and meaning
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*illness='lgc'>: an inescapable condition of being='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-

(Dostoevsky's Myshkin) suffers a sacred illness

='lgc'>[your='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ="trms">heritage ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
backed up by ="trms">literature
backed up by philosophy
claimed by mythology


='strcls'>*epilepsy='strcls'>* (has a place in the ="trms">history of thought) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the Idiot's illness
="lsts lst1">•between psyche ='and'>& soma
="lsts lst1">•between the ='strcls'>*theory of trauma='strcls'>* (which focuses the ="trms">history of the subject) ='and'>& the ='strcls'>*theory of fantasy='strcls'>* (which refers to ="trms">transference and counter="trms">transference)
="lsts lst1">•the only illness to have its own mythological figure ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•madness
="lsts lst1">•visionary ="trms">excess

herald of epilepsy='lgc'>: Hercules, Buddha, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoléon, Lord Byron, Pascal, Van Gogh, Dostoevsky, etc.


foolishness
drunkards
maniacs
the pathologically resentful
the envious
a rapist
a crowd of cheaters
classic ="trms">neurotics
subjects of delusional rantings
subjects of criminal intent


conscious ='lgc'>=/= unconscious ='lgc'>=/= drive

contract to his illness
manipulations of care

the sick often find someone who is even sicker to take care of (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the case with the Prince)


(="trms">according to ="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">literature has always tried to produce the body (which philosophy suppresses)

any discussion of the body risks engaging a double bind (a psychosis)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to produce a discourse on the body
="lsts lst1">•fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure not to produce discourse on the body
='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the sick body='strcls'>* (in a frenzied state of belated, compensatory awakening) ='lgc'>--="trms">demands='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (="trms">interpretive and diagnostic strategies) that often culminate in ='strcls'>*an ="trms">excess of discourse='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> opens up the space of necessary obscurity by which our bodies come to us

="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The body does not know; but it is not ignorant either. Quite simply, it is elsewhere. It is from elsewhere, another place, another regime, another register ='lgc'>[not an “obscure” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, or a “pre-conceptual” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, or a “global,” “immanent,” or “immediate” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•philosophy calls “body” pre="trms">supposes the determination of something like an
="trms">authority of “immediate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge,” a contra="trms">diction in terms, which inevitably becomes “mediated” (as “sensation,” “perception,” synaesthesia, and as immense reconstitutions of a pre="trms">supposed “re="trms">presentation”)

the site of nonknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that the body ="trms">traverses ='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*is related to thought='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the body thinks (in a sense) beyond giving or making sense
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*thought is itself a body='strcls'>*

="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger was the one who unhitched “thought” from philosophical operations and gave it weighs in as body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Nancy

in Dostoevsky ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the body commended by ='strcls'>*illness='strcls'>* bears a ="trms">memory trace of the ='strcls'>*sacred='strcls'>* (='lgc'>+ ="trms">finitude of all bodies)

“God is dead='lgc'> = God no longer has a body” ='lgc'>==="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>==> bodies (bereft of trickle-down ="trms">symbolicity) will have to be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•pumped up
="lsts lst1">•prosthetically amplified
="lsts lst1">•steroid-enhanced
="lsts lst1">•“built”
="lsts lst1">•buffed
="lsts lst1">•bionically ensured
="lsts lst1">•="trms">drugged
="lsts lst1">•“medicated”
="lsts lst1">•cloned
="lsts lst1">•remade
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">technobody or replicant will be made to substitute for the lost body of the divine trait

last night he dreamed of (apocalypse ="trms">technological dominion='lgc'>:) sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of the railroad and the distribution of connectors installed by new ="trms">technologies as instigators of the unsacrificeable...

(in ="trms">literature) apocalypse='lgc'> = vehicle (a ="trms">technological momentum)

the unnamed God has vanished together with this unnameable thing...

Myshkin’s illness still binds him to the sacred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this body retains and persists in making sense, the illness continues to produce sense

...poverty, hunger, deportation, torture, deprivation, ugliness, ="trms">horror ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies sacrificed to nothing


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sacrifice='lgc'>: a body's passage to a limit where it becomes the body of a ="trms">community

(after Christ ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) body is nothing but a wound ='lgc'>=/= illness

(when it persists) pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> I'm not well, I'm in trouble, therefore I am.

jouissance='lgc'>: a pain that succeeds ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a place where being, utterly exposed, is external to itself


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: surplus of objectivity

our body acts as a traumatic place (that causes a series of fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures)

(idiot's seizure) epilepsy
Then suddenly something seemed torn asunder before him; his soul was flooded with intense inner light. The moment lasted perhaps half a second, yet he clearly and consciously re="trms">membered the beginning, the first sound of the fearful scream which broke of itself from his breast and which he could not have checked by any effort. Then his consciousness was instantly extinguished and complete darkness followed.

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> (going to fetal ="trms">position)
seizure='lgc'>: an enactment of a wish to return to the womb
epilepsy ='lgc'>--Sutterman='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sadomasochistic phantasms that feature the self as murdered ="trms">child

breaking a prized vase
delivering rants in place of conversation

Dostoevsky's idiot='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repugnant
="lsts lst1">•uncanny
="lsts lst1">•a kind of ="ppl">Bataillean reversal (at bottom is unmistakably ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian)
="lsts lst1">•provokes ="trms">love

="trms">according to Dostoevsky='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*idiot ='lgc'>==provoke='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">love='strcls'>*

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> Faust had reported that two souls inhabit his body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> switching body types='lgc'>] ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> two sick bodies='lgc'>} (="trms">hallucinated ='lgc'>+ ="trms">internalized)
="lstsrd">1. the ailing body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can get rid off with ="trms">drugs (dealt with Mep="trms">histopheles)
="lstsrd">2. the abandoned body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inglorious corpse

body doubles reflecting one another (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to mirror)

="ppl">Avital ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movements ='lgc'>[such='lgc'>] as ="trms">Positive Action, ="trms">Positive Choices, and the marks of similar tags of empowerment that issue from the hope that we know what we’re doing, that we can take charge and act up and affirm our bodies, our selves, that we can now stop being victims and relinquish passivity.

torturer ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> healer

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