Category Archive: Nietzsche

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22 Jul

Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions

Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake “We have to learn to think differently —…
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 3:17 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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15 Jul

Transvaluation

Zero is nihilism defeated by itself. The first affirmation is destructive of the negative, the second, creative of the affirmative. Zero shows that “sovereign affirmation,” from which a new vitalism…
Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 7:18 pm By Brian and Asher 1 Reply
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20 Mar

Earth

In the duplicity of beauty there is the strange trope of a presence which is the shadow of itself, of a being which, anachronously, lurks in its own trace. (Levinas,…
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:07 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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15 Jul

Statement

Hypermediation. What is a statement? But the problem is already determining the singular projection of the statement onto life: both to identify the variously formed matters contained within it, with…
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:55 am By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
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17 May

Woman

I mean to say that the world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless poor, very poor when it comes to beautiful moments and unveilings of these things. But perhaps…
Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 11:41 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
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01 May

Break

Nietzsche. That joy and vision should be brought to bear even in the darkest corner of the human soul — and especially upon that within it which surges upwards and…
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:47 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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13 Mar

Supplements

    Is mathematics discovered or invented? But what if we have misplaced the scent from the start; in other words what if this clear distinction elides the process itself,…
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:43 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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28 Jun

Line of Flight

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. (Nietzsche)
Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 4:28 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
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27 Apr

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Towards an Ethics of Expression

Introduction: Rationality and Affect The lofty prize Of science lies Concealed today as ever! He has no thought To him it’s brought To own without endeavor! Goethe, Faust (1st part,…
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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15 Apr

Wandering Shadows: Reflections on Morality and Madness

In the disparity between the awareness of unreason and the awareness of madness, we have, at the end of the eighteenth century, the point of departure for a decisive movement:…
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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24 Mar

Production, Division, Excess: Spinoza, Nietzsche and the Event

The essential is never perceived in sheer multiplicity or in first impressions. Henri de Lubac In Nature there is nothing contingent; all things have been caused by the necessity of…
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 4:03 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
19 Feb

The Meaning of Science

What is the Meaning of Science? Nietzsche and the History of the Human Spirit What is problematic about science? What does the “progress” of science mean about human beings? I…
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 7:20 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
18 Feb

On Asceticism

We know what the three great catchphrases of the ascetic idea are: poverty, humility, and chastity. If we now look closely at the lives of all great, prolific, inventive spirits…
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 1:02 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
10 Dec

Beyond Desire: Remarks on Nietzsche and Becoming

    Topos (biocosm)     In the beginning all things were mixed together; then came understanding and created order. Anaxagoras [1] What had to be accomplished in that chaotic…
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 11:23 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
08 Dec

Nietzsche, Corruption, Exhaustion

In book I, section 23 of Gay Science, Nietzsche deploys a theory concerning the rise of the individual in relation to the signs of corruption in a society. This corruption…
Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 5:43 am By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
05 Dec

The Will to Virtue and the Morality of Capture

    “Neither Manu, nor Plato nor Confucius nor the Jewish and Christian teachers have ever doubted their right to lie. They have not doubted that they had very different…
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:35 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
29 Nov

Nietzsche, Pity and Virtue: From the Superfluous to the Exceptional

The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle of our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance (The Antichrist, 570). In the opening sections…
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9:51 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
17 Nov

Cyborg Nietzsche: Conscience, Affect, Transvaluation

Part One: Criticism and Untruth-Machines A. Neurosis and Transcendence: the Algebra of Bad Conscience We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.  Marcel Proust For Nietzsche,…
Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 3:10 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
14 Nov

Nietzsche and the Capture and Domestication of Peoples

  “You shall obey—someone and for a long time: else you will perish and lose the last respect for yourself”—this appears to me to be the moral imperative of nature…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 3:56 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
02 Nov

Blogosphere Kinships: Activity at Massthink

I’ve been visiting the massthink blog (populated by Ryan and Aless) for a couple of months now, but, as a bad reader, I failed to leave comments. I was thrilled…
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 11:08 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
31 Oct

Zarathustra and Genealogy: Where the State Ceases…

In Book 1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there is a speech on the state (“Of the New Idol”) that is surrounded by a speech on war and the warrior prior…
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 7:55 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
28 Oct

Rhythm, Expression, Transformation: Music and Nietzsche

(Image by Hectik, http://www.hectik.com/) In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche In early 1872, the same year The Birth of Tragedy was published, Nietzsche delivered a series of lectures…

Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8:36 pm By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
25 Oct

Nietzsche’s Social Ontology: (Un)harnessing the Chaos

The individual is a chaos necessary to every political and social order, a chaos enveloped in a structural social machine. This chaos should be distinguished from a random distribution of…
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 11:52 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
18 Oct

The Genealogy of the Unconscious: Evolution, Awareness, Creativity

“What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most…
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 11:20 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
14 Oct

Time and the Cultural Unconscious: Nietzsche and the Future

Woman at the Window Salvador Dalí, oil on board (1925) What do we understand to be the boundaries of our neighbor: I mean that which he as it were engraves…
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:00 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
10 Oct

Translation: Michel Serres and the Eternal Return

The following is Michel Serres’s essay “Eternal Return” in Hermes IV: Distribution. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1977. pp. 115-124. Original translation by Taylor Adkins on 10/10/07 Philosophers glorify Nietzsche…
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 12:29 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
09 Oct

The Power to Will: Nietzsche and Becoming Free

Reaching Out The will to power is not essentially political; it aims beyond politics towards a more subtle possession. The will to power is articulated as a higher expression of…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:47 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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30 Sep

Nietzsche and the Unconscious: Ethics, Desire, Politics

Cy Twombly, Untitled [1970. Oil-based house paint and crayon on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: © 2004 Matthew Septimus] Granted that nothing is ‘given’ as real…
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 5:27 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
29 Sep

Nietzsche and Sexual Politics: Energy and Difference in Power Relations

Dionysos and Ariadne We do not generally recognize how temporary our concepts and customs are. Foucault has argued our modern concept of sexuality is rooted inextricably in the specific marriage…
Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 11:30 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
28 Sep

Translation: Appendix to Boudot’s Reading in Nietzsche aujourd’hui: Round Table Discussion

Boudot, Pierre. “Discussion de la méthode dia-critique: une méthode de lecture de Zarathoustra.” Nietzsche aujourd’hui (2 vols.). Pierre Boudot et. alia. Publications du centre culturel de Cérisy-a-Salle (Paris: UGE, 1973),vol.…
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 4:02 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
26 Sep

Translation: The Dia-critical Method: Pierre Boudot’s Method of Reading Zarathustra

Boudot, Pierre. “La méthode dia-critique: une méthode de lecture de Zarathoustra.” Nietzsche aujourd’hui (2 vols.). Pierre Boudot et. alia. Publications du centre culturel de Cérisy-a-Salle (Paris: UGE, 1973),vol. 1, pp.…
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 3:07 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
23 Sep

Translation: Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ontology: Pierre Boudot

Boudot, Pierre. L’ontologie de Nietzsche. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971. The following is my translation of the introduction, pg. 5-9. I like the total renewal of Nieztsche’s thought in…
Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 5:26 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
19 Sep

Nietzsche and Basho: Freedom, Morality and Awareness

How very noble! One who finds awakening in the lightning-flash (Basho) It struck me lately that Nietzsche’s style is not entirely dissimilar to the strategy employed by the Zen koan.…
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 10:49 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
14 Sep

The Future of Culture: or, Beyond Eschatology

Nothing has preoccupied me more profoundly than the problem of decadence… “Good and evil” is merely a variation of that problem. Once one has developed a keen eve for the…
Friday, September 14, 2007 at 2:16 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
13 Sep

The Sense for Custom and the Feeling of Power: Nietzsche’s Joyous Denial of the Old Ways

We should take Nietzsche seriously when he asserts that Daybreak is the work of the subterranean man, one who constantly undermines the foundations of our belief by illuminating the mixed…
Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 4:05 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
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