Of Cruelty and Vulnerability: A Response to Dan Whistler’s “The
Hermetic Critique of Deleuze” from An und für sich by joshua ramey
My book begins with Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, and with Derrida’s
eulogy for Deleuze, a eulogy that proposes there is something secret, something
left unsaid, in Deleuze’s concept of immanence as it related to Artuad’s
theatre of cruelty…. I did not approach the hermetic Deleuze from this
perspective, but from a longer, less obvious path through a more archaic
alliance between philosophy and spiritual ordeal, one that animates the
stranger and more obscure moments in the history of post-Platonic speculation
in figures such as Iamblichus, Eriugena, Cusa, Bruno, and Pico. It was the
period of the Renaissance, in particular, that seemed to resonate in strange
and uncanny ways with what Deleuze was trying to do as he affirmed the work of
art, the process or activity of the art work, as some kind of necessary aspect
of thought itself.
The importance of an irreducibly enigmatic dimension of images, signs,
and symbols that one sees in someone like Bruno points to Deleuze’s own view of
signs and concepts as both objectively indeterminate yet necessarily
provocative for thought itself. Above all I was inspired by what I saw as the
connection between a series of pre-modern philosophers who explicitly connected
the possibility of knowledge, as such, to patterns and habits of
transformation. Hence my emphasis on the meta-pragmatic.
Anarchism, the argument runs, works well in small tribal communities
where everyone speaks to everyone else and knows everyone
else, but when collectives reach a particular size this sort of communist form
of relation can no longer function because there’s too much separation among
the elements (people) that compose the collective. We require a party or
a state to manage social relations because of limitations communicative
possibilities.
It’s never fun to be insulted, but it has always seemed to me that
grownups are supposed to keep their negative – and positive – feelings to
themselves. (On a more elevated level, the Bhagavad Gita says
that the self-possessed man or woman is untouched by the dualities of praise
and blame, etc.)
15h - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty
Mind, Cosmos, and the Invisible brewer http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/02/mind-cosmos-and-invisible-brewer.html … Sri Aurobindo regarding his
Karmayogin writings http://auromere.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/sri-aurobindo-on-nationalism/#comment-19499 …#FiveDreams View
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5 Feb - kittu reddy @kitturd “Allow the Hindus to
organize themselves and the Hindu-Muslim unity would take care of itself…sri
aurobindo
17h - inpondy @PondyTweets @kitturd A disservice to Sri
Aurobindo to quote him w/o giving time and context. Don't make him look like an
RSS functionary!
16h - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty
- @PondyTweets @kitturd Looking at the timing and
the context, it's a shame to see a prominent inmate of Ashram airing Sri Aurobindo's qoutes. Hide
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23h - RVAIDYA @rvaidya2000 - @BhaskarChat group of 80
students of diff colleges I interacted recently only 6 have heard about Aurobindo Ghosh- that is the
level Dada! Hide
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5 Feb - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty
The Mother gave a concrete form to the work of Sri Aurobindo http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/02/to-work-sri-aurobindo-initiated-mother.html … Prapatti
ploughed Babaji sowed seeds http://plasim.blogspot.in/2013/02/prapatti-did-ploughing-and-babaji-sowed.html …
5 Feb - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty
- @alok_bhatt [No institution
that carries the name of Sri Aurobindo
should be automatically assumed to represent him. –Govind Rajesh] http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBecoming/message/4257 …
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Though Artaud did not worship Krishna
in any clear sense, he would fall in the first category if he did. And he would
surely be fascinated by the fact that the word for “utterly distressed” in
Sanskrit “artah”, after the sandhi, is pronounced as “ARTO”!! One needs to
suffer, needs to be an arta, in order to write, sing, paint or sculpt in a
manner that makes many hearts resonate and many eyes moist. -Arindam
Chakrabarti (excerpt from a brochure on Artaud, 1997)
From SELF-Shelf
Entropy & evolution, resistance & purification 10
Jan 2013
The Vaishya, Mitra, and Mahalakshmi 10 Oct 2007
The phrase “Savitri Era” needs to be popularised for easy
identity “for all Sri Aurobindo and
Divine Mother followers” and Jitendra, through his blog, has extended a helping
hand. As for the socio-political matters, I am ploughing a lonely
furrow with much trepidation. [TNM55] 8:21 am At Savitri Era, however, we keep moving,
steadily, like the winning hare. [TNM55] 10:23 pm Reading the works of The
Mother & Sri Aurobindo is a life long task and to discover their effect
upon oneself is a unique endeavour. Sharing of ideas, of course, do help in
identifying commonalities and inculcating a sense of solidarity and mutuality.
How to translate our life's journey into an adventure in yoga, however, is the
primary concern. [TNM55] 11:18 pm
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