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Torn because Fable is way nicer and not Amazon but also rating books about philosophical pessimism with an emoji about how they made me feel is repulsive. Foucault talking about language and philology makes me want to read the Zibaldone.. it's just sitting there on my shelf...

Keeps doing the thing where he goes like "well, even people who disagree with me on x would concede that y" and this is actually just an empty signal phrase that you haven't actually interrogated the relationship between x and y despite preparing to deploy it in your argument

Definitely did not anticipate this book to be what it is. So far it feels like one person doing both sides of the Joe Rogan podcast but flattened into a single, totalizing voice

I'm in pain

How dare they translate merdre as anything other than shittr. What have they done.

Value and Economy was strange and has a heterodox Marxist critique of twitch streamers which I wasn't expecting for a text from the early 60s

This is extremely good wow

Enjoying the anti-fatalist fatalism

Finished Luck & Chance. Not digging the humanism overall but some very fun parts nonetheless

I skipped over the wolfman case for now to read Mourning & Melancholia, Introduction of Narcissism, and Hysteria/Bisexuality. Going to shelf this one for now so I can read Civ & Discontents. Will come back later to it but I think I've got what I need for Lacan for Edelman.

Okay the death drive stuff? I can see why Edelman latches onto it so passionately. Anyways I don't like Freud

"The boy enters the Oedipal phase: he begins to manipulate his penis whilst fantasizing about using it in some sexual way on his mother - until he sees that girls have no penis and this, combined with a castration threat, causes him to experience the greatest trauma of his life..."

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LMAO

There's some fun scholarship wrt history and debates within the topic of dream interpretation. Beyond that, so far, some examples (including interpretation of one of his own dreams) and basic contentions.

When Foucault puts Lautréamont in the preface, you know he's cooking

This is... not good

We pause at the beginning of Mirabell book 4, so far we have discussed all kinds of things with numerically-designated spiritual guides, including an alchemy of the subject that bears within it a kind of vile essentialism. It's an adventure to say the least

Got past the Book of Ephraim, now for something entirely different before I return for Mirabell's Book of Numbers

Bro's making puns in the occultist text to lighten the mood

The Tree of Life will no longer have spring as one of its seasons: too much dry wood; out of it will be made coffins for our bones, our dreams, and our griefs. Our flesh inherited the smell of lovely carrion scattered in the millenia. Their glory fascinated us; we exhausted it. In the Mind's graveyard lie the principles and the formulas: the Beautiful is defined and interred there... the True, the Good... all rotting

"I wanted to love heaven and earth, their exploits and their fevers - and I have found nothing which failed to remind me of death: flowers, stars, faces - symbols of withering, potential slabs of all possible tombs!"

Really good so far... His fragmented writing style is always so refreshing

The grief therapist scene is my favorite part of this book so far I was vibing with it so hard

"We are the wounds of nature..."

Gracious me! You want me, Doug Dimmadome of the Dimsdale Dimadome to commit a crime?🥺

'in a nutshell, what we're talking about here is loneliness'

Brian Jones died for your sins.