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@engeignos

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Sperg locked and immediately began cooking hmm

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We do a little IRL translation-ranking: video update from friend "doing the Lord's work" in local bookstore

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I seem to have passed the 2k followers mark. Let me show some appreciation with a Christmas gift for new and old friends, since this great resource is still available: Greek, Roman, and English classics, philosophy, history and more!

File folder on MEGA

mega.nz

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The German Network

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A few years ago I found a used hardcover Lattimore and decided to upgrade from my disintegrating paperback. The cashier insisted on telling me there was a "newer translation, first by a woman" To which I responded: 🗿

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We do a little IRL translation-ranking: video update from friend "doing the Lord's work" in local bookstore

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Thread of physiognomic illustrations for tonight's space. First bunch are from Della Porta (1586), showing zoological comparisons

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Costin Alamariu's new book could renew interest in the great Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), whose masterwork The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, was published in 12 volumes from 1906 to 1915

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Antaios was a German magazine edited by Mircea Eliade and Ernst Jünger from 1960 to 1971. Hunting down scans (no success so far), I found a complete table of contents. See thread below. (I was alerted to the existence of Antaios by @RomanianHaiduc earlier today!)

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Philosophy was written in many ways in the past: poems, dialogues, letters, confessions, essays, discourses, treatises... If there is a future for philosophy, it lies in a revival of an old genre, or in a new genre—it lies in getting unstuck from academic articles and books.

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Critique of Pure Reading

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The importance of studying tradition is not that it teaches you to be a traditionalist, as if such a thing were possible. Rather, it's that it can immunize you against fashionable ideas (which doesn't mean the fashionable ideas of the last 40 years, but rather of the last 400)

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Critique of Pure Reading

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May explain a thing or two

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The day Burroughs visited Céline

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Today at 4 EST: join @SperglerAcolyte , @ProxenusSentMe , @CWingUexkull and I for the next installment in our discussion of @CostinAlamariu ’s recently published book, Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy. We will be discussing Chapter 2, on Pindar's idea of nature

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"Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius..." 21 interpretations of Socrates' last words in Plato's Phaedo:

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Philosophy is a network sport

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I hope everyone knows that the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica is available online for your research needs. For many perennial topics you should skip La Wik or other compromised resources and start here:

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

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¡No me digas!

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@realchrisrufo They definitely have the baritone voiceover set to "seriously concerned" here!

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The Garden should have a Climax

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Join @SperglerAcolyte and I for an homage to Kant on his 300th birthday! This will be an aesthetic appreciation space featuring choice specimens of his prose at its most lyrical—plus many tasty and humorous biographical anecdotes!

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Lilly Frazer, wife of James George, made a selection of the latter's Golden Bough especially for children...

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Pretty solid set of audiobooks of classics: Greek and Roman history and philosophy, some English history etc.

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Imagine having a calling card designed for you by William Blake

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What is a great book, or a classic? How and why do we choose these sorts of books? And, once chosen, how should we read them? In two days: definitions and questions in search of the idea of a philosophical or literary canon.

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Mood (be patient)

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Some sketches by Goethe: self-portrait, sleeping friend, Medici fountain, recollections of the Italian journey

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A little intervention by Pound on the beginnings of poetry (and thus of literature). "They were made for no man's entertainment, but because a man believing in silence found himself unable to withhold himself from speaking."

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Great thread on Doré. I recommend this recent omnibus edition with illustrations of Dante, Don Quixote, Tennyson etc.

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@CosmistRussian This was especially amusing to hear the day I learned about her sister

The Painter Warned Us

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@breathe123 @idontexistTore @rawsalerts He may have some negro genetics, but not much. Her father obviously has northern European (based on his family tree) and east Indian genetics as well. The indian genes really shine through in Kamala's sister - Maya Lakshmi Harris.

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"The only safe rule... not to dispute with the first person you meet, but only with those of your acquaintance of whom you know that they possess sufficient intelligence and self-respect not to advance absurdities." Schopenhauer, The Art of Being Right (Eristic Dialectics)

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Eternal shame on the credentialists. In a virtual agora, virtue's won by being open to speaking with anyone, knowing little or nothing about their background. Their degrees are of little to no use for this challenge.

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THE STUPID THREATS COMING FROM HIS STUPID FACE

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Studying El Cantar de mio Cid, the oldest Castilian epic, Pedro Salinas claimed to have found the first (brutal) metaphor in Spanish poetry, and the first nature imagery

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@FrailSkeleton It always has to be something gross doesn't it

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"Degeneracy" in Johnson's Dictionary

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Let me pre-explain something. There are two ways to be an aesthete. One is to be so sensitive that you can only handle a tiny sliver of the spectrum. The other (c'est moi) is that you become an antenna seeking anything of relevance to the racial project. OK?

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Characteristically witty apophasis from Borges, in this case about French phonology...

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More on ancient fire-signaling: Polybius notes his own innovations:

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Human knowledge "figured" as a system in Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751-1772): The triadic structure divides human understanding into three faculties (memory, reason, and imagination) with their corresponding areas of knowledge (history, philosophy, poetry and the arts)

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The paradox of Enlightenment according to Kant: a "strange and unexpected trend in public affairs," combining the "public use of reason" with the "well-disciplined army" of a good ruler. Reading, context, and discussion incoming:

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Nature, in a lovely meditation by Goethe: "We obey her laws even when we rebel against them"

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Válery: "It's impossible to think *seriously* using words such as Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism... You can't get drunk, nor can you quench your thirst, with the labels on the bottles."

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@0xAlaric Much of the oldest stratum of La Wik was copied directly from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, which you can search directly here. Recommended for a first search on most historical topics!

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I hope everyone knows that the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica is available online for your research needs. For many perennial topics you should skip La Wik or other compromised resources and start here:

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"Cold Anarchy" by @xenocosmography

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Join me, @SperglerAcolyte , @Athens_Stranger , and @hyperpoiesis for an investigation into Dante's vision of history, empire and providence in the Commedia and other works!

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A PLACE CALLED ARGENTINA

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@bronzeagemantis @michaelmalice Powerful

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What literature, especially poetry, does

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From Schopenhauer's Eristic Dialectics

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What if the greatest philosophers only ever have one thing to say, something extremely simple—but they only ever approximate this wordless thought in successive verbal formulations? Two of the most striking passages from Bergson's lecture on philosophical intuition.

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A quick glimpse of Leibniz's voracious curiosity may be had by perusing the "List of Examples, Illustrations and Anecdotes" in the Cambridge ed. of the New Essays

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AND I KNOW ROUGH PEOPLE BAD PEOPLE REALLY BAD PEOPLE

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Friends have been posting on Mallarmé's inner circle, les Mardistes, and I thought to contribute by sharing some of his more "popular" works, those destined for the broadest audiences.

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PLANS for AUGUST. Life has me busy but there's 3 ideas. 1) Return to philosophy spaces with series on Bergson's TWO SOURCES 2) Selective GC for media ecology (diagnosis, strategy, tactics) 3) Telegram channel for curated reading experience

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First four issues of Coleridge's The Watchman: return of Greek learning to Europe after the fall of Constantinople as inspiration for his newspaper; an essay on fasting; a historical sketch of the German character; political news in a letter to the editor

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"What kind of messenger could come in speed like this?" (The chain of fire beacons announcing the fall of Troy in Aeschylus' Agamemnon)

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You can ask Aristotle a question. You do this while reading. There is a machine you can ask. It is called a book.

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steve jobs, 1983

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"Is there measure on Earth? There is none." Hölderlin, "In lieblicher Bläue..." / "In lovely blue..." (Translated by R. Sieburth)

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"Sovereign humanity": Schlegel on Homer

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Dark Forest Theory of Publication: The true test of coherent thought remains what it's long been: essays or books. Substonk is good, threads here are good, but there is another, increasingly critical, locus in the media ecology: privately circulated prose writings.

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@NoHolyScripture This is not a quote from Hypatia (there are probably none). It is from Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, which uses invented dialogue. Mind your desire for "words of wisdom," lest it lead you down fanciful paths.

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Nietzsche, from his early philological writings, on the value of Diogenes Laertius

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@MogTheUrbanite If that anecdote prevents you from appreciating Stoicism, then read Epictetus. Read Seneca. Read the fragments of the first Stoics.

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Interesting: before his major anthropological works, Frazer wrote a dissertation on Plato (published many years later)

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Costin Alamariu's new book could renew interest in the great Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), whose masterwork The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, was published in 12 volumes from 1906 to 1915

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For the space tonight, Wittgenstein's lecture on ethics

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THE SUN AND THE WATER AND THE WHOLE THING

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History is (a branch of) literature. The real divide is between philosophy and literature.

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History is written by the victors The losers get literature

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Table of Demonic Imagery in the Bible

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I’ll focus on Spinoza’s approach to philosophy, how to read the Ethics, and the status of the infamous formula “God or Nature”

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Bacon on the three kinds of impostors: the schoolmen with their technical terms, the vain wits with their holy poetry, and the mystics with their high-sounding phrases. "The first entangles man's sense, the second allures, the third astonishes: all seduce it."

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Francis Bacon on impostors

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Sharing this interview with Allan Bloom in anticipation of @Athens_Stranger space on Closing of the American Mind tomorrow, gives a good sense of *some* of the questions at stake...

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Firing Line with William F....

Episode S0735, Recorded on April 15, 1987Guest: Allan BloomFor more information about this program, see: http://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6911Fo...

www.youtube.com

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Some recently translated Heidegger on Hölderlin—on how the poem (each poem) must "point to the singular as a telling of the holy" "Each and every poem says all, and yet none suffices"

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McLuhan on the "multiconsciousness" that philosophy failed to register in the early 20c "No garbage heap... no unconscious large enough to contain all of the materials" Neither theories of consciousness nor theories of the unconscious have been of much help with this breakdown.

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Curious about the origin of the "Butlerian Jihad"? Join me for a reading and discussion of excerpts on education and technological acceleration from Samuel Butler's Erewhon

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For the space tonight, from Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics

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For those curious about entering into The Golden Bough, there are two abridgments, one made by Frazer himself (also published in an illustrated edition), a more recent one by Robert Frazer

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Yes hello, it’s me, here in my carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes

In Libro Veritas

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Jung about the Introvert

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Frazer was also a classical scholar. Here he connects his two fields of research: the study of religion and mythology had as its task "to trace the growth of human thought and institutions in those dark ages which lie beyond the range of history."

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Lem's Law: "No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn’t understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets." This could be read as a media-ecological calque of an infamous argument attributed to Gorgias.

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Et in Arcadia ego

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"POLIS IS THIS" Charles Olson reads "Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]"

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Della Porta

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It's been too long since I've done a space with @SperglerAcolyte ! The focus will be on Schopenhauer's essay on history, but you can expect sidebars on Aristotle, Hegel, Goethe—and Spengler of course! Not to mention one of my favorite topics: history as literature...

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WE NEED A MAN WHO IS UNBELIEVABLY SHARP

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All right supposing you passed the taste test here is some old school Anglo Excellence (White People Music)

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Hidden simplicity: a curious coincidence between Bergson and Heidegger... Bergson says in "Philosophical Intuition" that the great philosophers's statements are as it were drafts of a single, simple intuition...

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"Where no Gods are, there are the Titans. This is a relationship of a legal order which no man can escape..." Join @SchattigeDer and I tomorrow for a discussion of the Titans in the work of F.G. and Ernst Jünger

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