Mein Kampf = My Struggle
Just finished reading my life among the Deathworks by Philip Reif - the first of a supposed triology. I hoped he already wrote them as I discovered he passed away on 7/11/2006 at the age of 83. Mere days after I finished reading it. Its a sociological theory as an extension of Frued's psychoanalysis and Nietzsche's the Gay Science(wherein he declares "God is Dead").
It's rather thick reading, but the distillations are:
First world/Culture: paganism - rooted in fate
Second World/Culture: monotheism - rooted in faith
Third World/Culture: theraputic man - rooted in fiction
the concept of Deathworks: Art and literature that are the realization of man's chaotic and repressed nature - works that transgress the current culture in order to obtain freedom from the Vertical in Authority (the power structure) of the previous culture. It is the deconstruction of the sacred in a creative and self-fictive revelation of the Primacy of Possibilities (his terms) - the stability of the social order.
Or something like that. Like I said, "It's thick."
It's rather thick reading, but the distillations are:
First world/Culture: paganism - rooted in fate
Second World/Culture: monotheism - rooted in faith
Third World/Culture: theraputic man - rooted in fiction
the concept of Deathworks: Art and literature that are the realization of man's chaotic and repressed nature - works that transgress the current culture in order to obtain freedom from the Vertical in Authority (the power structure) of the previous culture. It is the deconstruction of the sacred in a creative and self-fictive revelation of the Primacy of Possibilities (his terms) - the stability of the social order.
Or something like that. Like I said, "It's thick."
Also ripped through a first time novel: the Best people in the World - a coming of age story in the 1970's. Terry and Adam have recommended another: Somebody Moore (not Alan or Terry) which I will digest once I conclude the history of Dust. the small and invisible. Also listening to two books on tape. The first: The Great Raid (rescuing the lost souls from Corrigidor and Bataan - phillipines POW camp in WWII) and now the Theory of Consciousness a series of lectures by a John Searle.
Television: PBS - last of three part series on the elegant universe. From string theory to Membranes and 11 dimensions. How to study the invisible. when does theory become science. how to reconcile anomolies that refute the basic unifying principles. blackholes, dark matter, stellar quarks; sparkles, neuons, gravitons: quantum dust.
Saw a Scanner Darkly over the weekend. PKD short story about addiction and surveillence in the future. who is feeding whom. who stands to profit from the addiction. how to curtail advancing numbers of addicts. how to control, reprogram or passify the "sick" Truth Is stranger then Fiction
Television: PBS - last of three part series on the elegant universe. From string theory to Membranes and 11 dimensions. How to study the invisible. when does theory become science. how to reconcile anomolies that refute the basic unifying principles. blackholes, dark matter, stellar quarks; sparkles, neuons, gravitons: quantum dust.
Saw a Scanner Darkly over the weekend. PKD short story about addiction and surveillence in the future. who is feeding whom. who stands to profit from the addiction. how to curtail advancing numbers of addicts. how to control, reprogram or passify the "sick" Truth Is stranger then Fiction
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