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Death and the State

Monday, September 24, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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capital / creativity / death / dirt / freedom / hope / machine / production / spectacle / state / static / terror

Everything about the modern State is false: it is cold, mechanical and monstrous. And there is no hope for disruption: machinic production annihilates life. Capital is the calculated sacrifice of whatever is left of spiritual health: profit in exchange for humanity, slavery in exchange for inner value. The enslavement of free creativity is the only positive operation of capital. Without the knowledge of what it is to think adventurously, to journey abroad, to breathe freely, […]

Translation: Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ontology: Pierre Boudot

Sunday, September 23, 2007
by Taylor Adkins
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diacritics / French Translation / Georges Bataille / hope / L'ontologie de Nietzsche / Nietzsche / ontology / Pierre Boudot / Zarathustra

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 each one of his books. Its creative requirement moves in a counter-current, but I consider it able to release to our time the individual sources of genius in the environment of humanity. If our society does not understand this, electronic machines will dictate the laws […]

The Future of Culture: or, Beyond Eschatology

Friday, September 14, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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decadence / hope / institution / Nietzsche / nihilism / Politics / religion / socialism

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 symptoms of decline, one understands morality, too—one understands what is hiding under its most sacred names and value formulas: impoverished life, the will to the end, the great weariness. Morality negates life… (The Case of Wagner, 51) The social relation requires re-evaluation in light of […]