no more

mardi 20 mars 2018

the stories of codpieces
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/30/wolf-hall-codpieces-too-small-says-literature-researcher

Brett B. Bodemer. "Pantagruel's Seventh Chapter: The Title as Suspect Codpiece" (2006)
This study explores historical and linguistic aspects of Rabelais’ invented catalog for the Library of the Abbey of St. Victor. Contrasting the fictional catalog with an actual catalog of St. Victor’s, it examines why this Abbey was such an apt target, and shows ways in which Rabelais’ catalog explodes concerted efforts by influential scholastics associated with St. Victor’s to corral knowledge into classified schemes. It further offers a linguistic analysis of Rabelais’ mocking of the convention of titling, whose importance had surged with the arrival of mechanized printing. All of these considerations are viewed in the light of the chapter’s structure, and the metaphor of the codpiece, where representations – the Abbey of St. Victor, for example, or any title – may or may not accurately portray what purports to be represented. The linguistic analysis, showing the interdependence of title and titled, and leading back to Rabelais’ affinity for ideas found in Plato’s Cratylus, suggests that Rabelais, holding a view of a slippery linguistic continuity between inner and outer, had found in the convention of titling, not only a ripe target for resounding satire, but a means to convey a profound insight into the nature of language.

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=lib_fac
https://www.cairn.info/revue-litteratures-classiques1-2008-2-page-27.htm
Au chapitre VII du Pantagruel, François Rabelais raconte le séjour de son héros à Paris. Après y avoir « fort bien estudié en tous les sept ars liberaulx », le truculent géant « trouva la librairie de Sainct Victor fort magnificque, mesmement d’aulcuns livres qu’il y trouva, desquelz s’ensuit le repertoyre », à savoir la liste burlesque de cent trente-neuf ouvrages fantaisistes, où les registres gastronomique (Beda, De optimitate triparum) et scatologique (Ars honeste petandi in societate, per M. Ortuinum) se mêlent plaisamment à des charges contre l’Église (La profiterolle des Indulgences), le barreau (La complainte des Advocatz sur la Reformation des Dragées) et surtout la scolastique (Barbouilamenta Scoti), dont l’auteur pastiche avec délectation la langue hautement spécialisée (Antipericatametanaparbeuge-damphicribrationes merdicantium) 
. Par là, ce morceau d’anthologie donne une vision caricaturale mais instructive de ce qu’était en 1532 l’image de la bibliothèque victorine. Même en faisant la part de la bouffonnerie gratuite, est-il indifférent qu’aussitôt après s’être formé dans les arts libéraux, Pantagruel la visite de préférence à celle pourtant fameuse de la Sorbonne ? Proverbiale par sa richesse et ridicule par son contenu, la bibliothèque ici dépeinte offre aux yeux de Rabelais et de ses lecteurs le type achevé, c’est-à-dire foisonnant et démodé, de la bibliothèque médiévale.

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=lib_fac
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=lib_fac

mardi 6 mars 2018

Rescuing postmodernism from the belly of the beast with Albert Camus
(6/3/18 and edited)

Albert Camus ( 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

As he wrote in L'Homme révolté (The Rebel), in the chapter about "The Thought on Midday", Camus was a follower of the ancient Greek 'Solar Tradition' (la pensée solaire). In 1947–48, he founded the Revolutionary Union Movement (Groupes de liaison internationale – GLI) a trade union movement in the context of revolutionary syndicalism (Syndicalisme révolutionnaire). According to Olivier Todd, in his biography Albert Camus, une vie, it was a group opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton. For more, see the book Alfred Rosmer et le mouvement révolutionnaire international by Christian Gras.
His colleagues were Nicolas Lazarévitch, Louis Mercier, Roger Lapeyre, Paul Chauvet, Auguste Largentier, Jean de Boë (see the article: "Nicolas Lazarévitch, Itinéraire d'un syndicaliste révolutionnaire" by Sylvain Boulouque in the review Communisme, n° 61, 2000). His main aim was to express the positive side of surrealism and existentialism, rejecting the negativity and the nihilism of André Breton.
From 1943, Albert Camus had correspondence with Altiero Spinelli who founded the European Federalist Movement in Milan—see Ventotene Manifesto and the book "Unire l'Europa, superare gli stati", Altiero Spinelli nel Partito d'Azione del Nord Italia e in Francia dal 1944 al 1945-annexed a letter by Altiero Spinelli to Albert Camus.
In 1944, Camus founded the "French Committee for the European Federation" (Comité Français pour la Féderation Européenne – CFFE) declaring that Europe "can only evolve along the path of economic progress, democracy and peace if the nation states become a federation."
From 22 to 25 March 1945, the first conference of the European Federalist Movement was organised in Paris with the participation of Albert Camus, George Orwell, Emmanuel Mounier, Lewis Mumford, André Philip, Daniel Mayer, François Bondy and Altiero Spinelli. This specific branch of the European Federalist Movement disintegrated in 1957 after Winston Churchill's ideas about European integration rose to dominance. (<suppose thats for the english sentiments, never heard that)

Camus's first significant contribution to philosophy was his idea of the absurd. He saw it as the result of our desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither, which he expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and incorporated into many of his other works, such as The Stranger and The Plague. Despite his split from his "study partner", Sartre, Camus was still categorized as an Existentialist. He specifically rejected that label in his essay "Enigma" and elsewhere. The current confusion arises, in part, because many recent applications of existentialism have much in common with many of Camus's practical ideas (see: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death). But, his personal understanding of the world (e.g., "a benign indifference", in The Stranger), and every vision he had for its progress (e.g., vanquishing the "adolescent furies" of history and society, in The Rebel) undoubtedly set him apart.

In the 1950s, Camus devoted his efforts to human rights. In 1952, he resigned from his work for UNESCO when the UN accepted Spain as a member under the leadership of General Franco. In 1953, he criticized Soviet methods to crush a workers' strike in East Berlin. In 1956, he protested against similar methods in Poland (protests in Poznań) and the Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolution in October.
Camus maintained his pacifism and resisted capital punishment anywhere in the world. He wrote an essay against capital punishment in collaboration with Arthur Koestler, the writer, intellectual and founder of the League Against Capital Punishment. He was consistent in his call for non-aggression in Algeria.

Existentialism

As one of the forefathers of existentialism, Camus focused most of his philosophy around existential questions. The absurdity of life and its inevitable ending (death) is highlighted in the very famous opening of the novel The Stranger (1942): "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.". This alludes to his claim that life is engrossed by the absurd. He believed that the absurd - life being void of meaning, or man's inability to know that meaning if it were to exist - was something that man should embrace. He argued that this crisis of self could cause a man to commit ("philosophical suicide"); choosing to believe in external sources that give life (what he would describe as false) meaning. He claimed that religion was the main culprit. If a man chose to believe in religion - that the meaning of life was ascend to heaven, or some similar afterlife, that he committed philosophical suicide by trying to escape the absurd. ....etc
there's a lot, but i leave that for looking into first

- an inconnu, who's that p béégéé i heard of ? (jbp)
i don't even know if its the right person,but timewise and existentially nihilstic interesting
Pierre Bergé was a French award-winning industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner (and onetime life partner) of the eponymous designer; also sexscandals, sadism and pedophily.

Nihilistic fashion creating

Yves Saint Laurent fait ses débuts de couturier chez Dior au milieu des années 1950. Il entre comme assistant-modéliste auprès de Christian Dior, puis signe six collections après la mort du couturier. Il connait alors sa première reconnaissance mondiale.
« Dior m'avait appris à aimer quelque chose d'autre que la mode et le stylisme : la noblesse fondamentale du métier de couturier. »
Ses aspirations artistiques brisées par sa mère, Christian Dior reste longtemps à la traîne de ses amis — la plupart également homosexuels — dont Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Max Jacob et Maurice Sachs. Ses débuts sont difficiles. Des centaines de témoignages et journaux intimes révèlent un être généreux et drôle jusqu'à la bouffonnerie, mais profondément secret et qui cacha son homosexualité.

there you go, fashion, rich investors, homosexuals imaging masked mirrors,
there's nothing wrong with that but there's also a lot wrong with that

Jean Cocteau Comptant parmi les artistes qui ont marqué le XX^e siècle, il a côtoyé la plupart de ceux qui ont animé la vie artistique de son époque. Il a été l'imprésario de son temps, le lanceur de modes, le bon génie d'innombrables artistes. En dépit de ses œuvres littéraires et de ses talents artistiques, Jean Cocteau insista toujours sur le fait qu'il était avant tout un poète et que tout travail est poétique.

https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/le-coming-out-de-jean-cocteau_822959.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Enfants_Terribles

and some spirit cooking?
http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/cdc/placenta.php

back to Camus
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-2979-9_19

how Camus can be seen as both a precursor and antithetical to postmodernism?
and oneself, searching and reviewing assumptions- foundations
(benjamin a boyce with chris dangerfield)( jb peterson with russel brand)
not read yet;
http://www.iairs.org/PAPERS_V1-I1/PAGE%2069%20-%2074.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02572865
aren't people repeating eachother and themselves? did they actually read camus' books?

there's a 'jean piaget' found, (YT - 2017 Personality 06: Jean Piaget & Constructivism)
from wiki
The theorist we recognize today only emerged when he moved to Geneva, to work for Édouard Claparède as director of research at the Rousseau Institute, in 1922.

Connection with the International Bureau of Education (IBE)
In 1925, the governing board of the Rousseau Institute voted to establish the International Bureau of Education (IBE), which is now a category 1 institute of UNESCO. The governing board received a $5000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to found the IBE. Rousseau Institute director Pierre Bovet became the first director of the IBE.

Rousseau wrote that he persuaded Thérèse to give each of the newborns up to a foundling hospital,
oh, knowing education to a tee and all, that's very....disturbing....?

mercredi 4 janvier 2017

consumers and infowars

Why do our governments work against their people ?

Since when, or better why is greed an exceptable excuse?

Why doesn't russia have its own internetsystem?

Sock puppetry, astroturfing, and the marketing ‘shill’ game

http://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/22/shill-game/

jeudi 18 août 2016

the ghost of mcCarthy

it's not salem but the ghost of mcCarthy

http://billmoyers.com/2012/04/26/the-ghost-of-joe-mccarthy-slithers-again/

We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy of only what we know today. Sometimes, though, the past comes back to haunt, like a ghost.

http://www.pressawards.org.uk/modules/entries/images/entries-30150511-01026.pdf
and re-animated by all,
when there's nothing to propose, try the old trick again

"Panem et circenses" "Bread and circuses"

Satire X: Wrong Desire is the Source of Suffering

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,

qui spatium uitae extremum inter munera ponat

naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,

nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores

Herculis aerumnas credat saeuosque labores

et uenere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.

monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe

tranquillae per uirtutem patet unica uitae.

It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.

Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,

which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,

which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,

does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes

the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than

the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.

I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;

For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.

366 lines. The theme of this poem encompasses the myriad objects of prayer unwisely sought from the gods: wealth, power, beauty, children, long life, et cetera. The narrator argues that each of these is a false Good; each desired thing is shown to be not good in itself, but only good so long as other factors do not intervene. This satire is the source of the well-known phrase "mens sana in corpore sano" (a healthy mind in a healthy body), which appears in the passage above. It is also the source of the phrase "panem et circenses" (bread and circuses) – the only remaining cares of a Roman populace which has given up its birthright of political freedom (10.81).

more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires_(Juvenal)

------yur boring about pics googl!!

samedi 9 juillet 2016

Lesser Evil Voting as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The ever more nauseating rightward drift of the DDDs that is aided and abetted by LEV in the absence of serious movement building on the left is part of the context that lets Republicans absurdly suck up populist, working class anger. As the Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein (who rightly calls for Hillary’s felony indictment) told me last February, “Lesser Evil strategy requires you to be silent, to turn your voice over to a corporate-sponsored politics, to a corporate-sponsored party. The politics of fear delivers everything we are afraid of by entrusting the fox to guard the chick coup. Silence is not an effective political strategy. And besides the Lesser Evil invariably paves the way for the Greater Evil.” Stein cited the right-wing Congressional election victories of 2010, which reflected mass popular anger and disgust with the corporate-neoliberal Obama’s failure to pursue a remotely progressive agenda when he enjoyed Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress and an angry citizenry ready to punish the plutocracy. Obama responded by acting to protect the bankers and “throw [ordinary middle and working class] people over the cliff.” By 2014, Stein noted, just a third of electorate came out to vote since “Lesser Evilism gives nothing to vote for. Eighty percent of young people stayed home. Labor stayed home. A lot of women stayed away…People don’t come to vote on what they fear,” Stein observes. “They vote on what they’re for.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/08/dont-blame-me-if-trump-wins/

The specific electoral and party system changes required to make U.S. elections worthy of passionate citizen engagement are well known. “We need,” Wilpert writes, “to address issues such as: the influence of money on political campaigns, the lack of any proportionality in representation (first past the post system), gerrymandering, inequality in representation (that small states have about 40 times the weight in the Senate as a large state, and three times in a presidential election), lack of access to mass media in campaigns, etc.” Yes: imagine the introduction of an elections and party system aligned with the notion of popular sovereignty (the U.S. Founders’ ultimate nightmare, by the way). A Democracy Amendment to the U.S. Constitution anyone?
Trump may end up being more viable in November than I originally thought. This will garner lefties living in contested states more lectures on our solemn duty to block “fascism” by voting for a right-wing fanatic (Hillary Clinton) – for a warmongering enemy of workers and the environment, a friend of Wall Street and “free trade” (the corporate Clinton wing of the Democratic Party defeated efforts to insert opposition to the TPP into the party’s platform), and a genuine threat to launch World War III. When I reject that counsel and Trump wins, if he does, I am not going to take the blame for the ascendancy of the Donald. Sorry. The dismal dollar Dems and their left enablers will have a lot more to answer for on that score.

https://www.rt.com/news/350229-anti-nato-summit-poland/
https://www.rt.com/news/350289-eu-data-transfer-us/

https://www.rt.com/news/350281-stoltenberg-nato-buildup-russia/

&& more low fruits

Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/08/monsanto-bayer-and-the-push-for-corporate-cannabis/

lundi 9 mai 2016

mess up

The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Отечественная война 1812 года, Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda) and in France as the Russian Campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army^. Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace.The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretext for his actions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia