#Nietzsche's theory of Art

[anglerflsh]

can you believe he's a history major

[my-fancy-hat]

Do you have any favourite books? When did you get into drawing art? And lastly, would you rather eat sushi or gyoza?

hi! aw sadly i'm not very culturized in books as i'd like to admit, i have a readlist but i've always been more into movies, so i just read a bit of everything but nothing concrete. what i read the most are essays and informative books, but i used to like a lot spinoza and schopenhauer's, and jane eyre!

about art, it has always been a close thing to me. my whole family are artists in some kind of way, either painters, musicians, writers, tailors/designers for ex, so it came naturally to me to start drawing at a very young age, encouraged by my mom. i started with graphite and oil painting self-taught, i even won some local awards for it, but i ended up putting it aside for years because i didn't have inspiration to do anything related, it became boring to me. i started drawing again to try digital and i'm vibing with it so far, i've (re)learned a lot lol

and sushi or gyoza... raw fish creeps me out tbh tho i'm willing to try it someday! but i choose gyoza bc it looks like empanadas de queso

[penhive]

Assorted

Quotes

When men condemn God transforms you into his privilege.

Disappointment is a disease.

While being contended with little celebrate for abundance.

Passion is the colors of feeling.

I am mastering thought by surrendering to it.

Financial famine is a difficult experience in life.

Trusting God is to live by faith.

To achieve you need to fail.

I am not crying over lost opportunities.

A master plan of the heart is a finesse to execute.

I wish that life would be a rainbow.

The search for aesthetic experiences is a longing of the heart.

Satan is a deceptive beast who intrudes into our weakness and makes it liable to sin.

If my plan matches God’s it will be the most beautiful reality.

Philosophy asks questions and art answers them.

Violence and the Word

The word violence in postmodern literature is present and writing begins with the invocation of the pen in violence. However I am taking a Christian apologetic point of view and stating that the word’s meaning in a Christian Philosophical point of view is grace, compassion, mercy, kindness, tolerance, and forgiveness and the word from the Christian apologetic point of view is harmless and nonviolent.

Nietzsche’s Will to Power

Nietzsche’s will to power is self-progress and propagation of the self towards the victorious attainment of meaning. He uses language motifs and metaphors for the philosophy of Will to power. I am re-quoting his philosophy from a Christian apologetic point of view and I make his philosophy into Will to grace and it means not by my means or power but only by the grace of God. The Will to Power is transformed into Will to Grace.

[vixen-academia]

Free MIT online courses that sound interesting

Arts & Literature

Introduction to World Music

Reading Fiction

Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare

Introduction to Photography

Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity

Studies in Poetry - Briths Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind

Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini

Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film

Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty"

Queer Cinema and Visual Culture

Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600 - 1800

Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography

Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñel

Major Authors: Rewriting Genesis: "Paradise Lost" and Twentieth-Century Fantasy

Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization

Contemporary Literature: Britsh Novel Now

Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats

Writing About Literature: Writing About Love

Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction: Great Books On The Page and On The Screen

Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale

Victorian Literature and Culture

Reading Poetry

English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare

Introduction to Fiction

International Woman's Voice

Major Authors: Oscar Wilde and the "90's"

Prizewinners: Nobelistas

American Authors: American Women Authors

Shakespeare, Film and Media

Japanese Literature and Cinema

Woman's Novels: A Weekly Book Club

Classics of Chinese Literature

Major English Novels

Topics in South Asia Literature and Culture

Introduction to Literary Theory

History & Social Studies

American Classics

The Middle East in the 20th Century

Africa and the Politics of Knowledge

The Rise of Modern Science

European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Century

Philosophy of Love

Human Rights: At Home and Abroad

The Nature of Creativity

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions

Introduction to the History of Technology

Ancient Philosophy

Youth Political Participation

[dearorpheus]

hello, your blog's vibes are absolutely impeccable! I was wondering if you could recommend me some nonfiction reading on eroticism, religion or fear? I'd love to read about any of these topics, but I never really know where to start looking for good theory books or essays, so I usually end up reading fiction instead. any nonfiction recs would be deeply appreciated (and on other topics too if you have particular favorites). have a nice day!

hello! thank you for the kind words♡

hm! some reading might be: - Erotism: Death and Sensuality + Visions of Excess, Bataille - Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs, Deleuze - The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography, Angela Carter - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose, Leigh Cowart - Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson - A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes - Uses of the Erotic, Audre Lorde - A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953 - Foucault's Histor[ies] of Sexuality - Being and Nothingness, Sartre - The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson - Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism, Romana Byrne - Pleasure Principles: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado - "The Aesthetics of Fear", Joyce Carol Oates - Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, Isabel Cristina Pinedo - "On Fear", Mary Ruefle - "In Search of Fear", Philippe Petit - Female Masochism in Film: Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics, Ruth Mcphee - Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva - Hélène Cixous' Stigmata (i am thinking esp of "Love of the Wolf") - Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis - anything from Caroline Walker Bynum.... Wonderful Blood, Fragmentation and Redemption, Holy Feast and Holy Fast - excerpts of Letter From a Region in my Mind, James Baldwin - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (re: Christian morality, death of God) - Waiting for God, Simone Weil - The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus - Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung - "The Genesis of Blame", Anne Enright

do know as well that Lapham's Quarterly has issues dedicated entirely to these subjects you've mentioned: eros, religion, fear ! there's also this wonderful ask from @rotgospels on biblical horror theory

other non-fic i will always rec: - "On Self-Respect", Joan Didion - Illness as Metaphor + Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag - The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Maggie Nelson - "The Laugh of the Medusa", Hélène Cixous - Ways of Seeing, John Berger - The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit - The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry some non-fic things i've read lately: - "Mary Shelley's Obsession with the Cemetery", Bess Lovejoy - "Horror Lives in the Body", Megan Pillow - "The Cruel Myth of the Suffering Artist", Patrick Nathan - "The Rub of Rough Sex", Chelsea G. Summers - "The Lost Art of Memorizing Poetry", Nina Kang - "The problem with English", Mario Saraceni

[ghelgheli]

Stuff I Read In July 2024

bold indicates favourites

Books

Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolaño

Antwerp, Roberto Bolaño

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler

In an Abusive State, Kristin Bumiller

Short Fiction

Founding Father, Isaac Asimov

Exile to Hell, Isaac Asimov

Key Item, Isaac Asimov

Queer &c.

Science Fiction Double Feature: Trans Liberation on Twin Earth, B.R. George & R.A. Briggs [link]

King’s Member, Queen’s Body: Transsexual Surgery, Self-Demand Amputation and the Somatechnics of Sovereign Power, Susan Stryker & Nikki Sullivan

Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity", E.M. Hernandez & Rowan Bell [link]

We Are All Nonbinary, Kadji Amin [link]

An Orientalist History of Transmisogyny, Julianna Neuhouser [link]

Where Is My Place in the World? Early Shoujo Manga Portrayals of Lesbianism, Fujimoto Yukari [link]

Alice in Monsterland, Gilles Dauvé [link]

Manchester Medieval Society: Guest Post: ‘Weaponed’ men, impotent men, and ‘not-men’: sex and manhood in Anglo-Saxon England, Chris Monk [link]

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, Kimberlé Crenshaw [link]

Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response, Audre Lorde [link]

Palestine

‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza, Oren Ziv [link]

We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. Mark Perlmutter & Feroze Sidhwa [link]

Elements of Anti-Semitism, Jake Romm [link]

Paradoxical Modernity: Pasolini and Israele, Nicola Perugini [link]

Pol/History

Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory, Ya’iishjááshch’ilí [link]

The Street, the Sponge, and the Ultra, Paul Amar [link]

Camatte: A propos capital, Jacques Camatte [link]

Enslaved Children in Portuguese India, 1550-1760, Patricia Souza de Faria [link]

Kamala Harris’s “American Journey”: Caste, Global Mobility & State Power, Tanvi Kohli [link]

"What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July", Frederick Douglass [link]

Dev Bio

The attention span myth, Maria Panagiotidi [link]

Innateness and Canalization, André Ariew [link]

An evaluation of the concept of innateness, Matteo Mameli & Patrick Bateson [link]

The Vernacular Concept of Innateness, Paul Griffiths & Edouard Machery [link]

Other

Nihei Tsutomu and the Poetics of Space: Notes Toward a Cyberpunk Ecology, Keith Leslie Johnson [link]

Speculative Architectures in Comics, Francesco-Alessio Ursini [link]

In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things, Charlie Squire [link]

Nietzsche is Dead, Meredith Hindley [link]

Hegel on the Kant-Laplace Hypothesis and the Moral Postulates, Colin Bodayle [link]

Let's Ride: Art history after Black studies, Huey Copeland, Sampada Aranke, & Faye R. Gleisser [link]

[vigilantkatholixx]

christianity

orthodoxy (chesterton) HC

everlasting man (chesterton) PB

europe and the faith (belloc) HC (this one’s nice)

the restitution of man (aeschliman/lewis) PB

the germanization of early medieval christianity (russell) PB

middle ages & art

life on the english manor 1150-1400 (bennett) HC

life on the english manor 1150-1400 (bennett) (cooler copy) HC

the autumn of the middle ages (huizinga) (best translation) HC

social theories of the middle ages (some catholic clergyman) HC

medieval art (stokstad) PB

a book of hours HC (tiny, lots of full colour reprints)

image on the edge (some pomo bitch) HC

guilds in the middle ages (renard) HC

the book of beasts (some little cheesy glossary of medieval beasts according to the latin bestiaries) PB

race & politic’s

the works of joseph de maistre this ones a keeper

couple antebellum pro-slavery books HC

the rising tide of color (stoddard) HC, ‘20s edition i think, with original dustcover

race or mongrel (schultz) HC, another early 20th cent book about white people being better than brown people

the dispossessed majority (allen) HC, this one’s boring as fuck

nation and race PB (i don’t even know what this one is, bunch of essays about the scary rise of the scary new right wing in europe or something, who cares

black hundred (some russian commie) HC, book about history of russian right wing and anti-communism

nations and nationalism since 1780 (hobsbawm, dead jewish commie) PB

the meaning of conservatism (scruton) HC

what the social classes owe each other (sumner) PB this one sucks

readings on fascism and national socialsm PB

varieties of fascism (krieger) PB

ride the tiger (evola) HC

the k's

j5ws and modern capitalism (sombert) PB

j5w'sh eugenics (john glad) HC

culture of critique (macdonald) PB

other

basic writings of nietzsche HC

zarathustra’s discourses (some tiny penguin PB with excerpts from TSZ)

solitude (storr) PB here’s one for the introverts

the book of five rings (miyamoto musashi) tiny PB

letters to a young contrarian (hitchens) (yes, christopher) (don’t ask) HC

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

I hate it when men say “oh women are so boring they have no personality” exsqueeze me u Reddit podcast coomer 4Chan manosphere gymcel bitch?? It’s like they never met an autistic female bc women hate them lol? Meanwhile asperged women can literally deep dive into any conspiracy theory known to man, define incel vocabulary better than incels themselves, analyze the history of political theory from Marx to Friedman, study the complex ideas of everyone from Nietzsche to Evola to Schopenhauer to Guenon, name every 70s B porno ever made, study medieval art and Catholic visual motifs from the renaissance, PLUS we look cute in a miniskirt and winged eyeliner and platform shoes and bonus is we don’t smell like old sweaty socks and have dried coom on our undergarments

[calledbyflowers]

i see how u could like fink that kirby is a pokemon like i can notice hte objective similarities btwn their designs and like how u could oribky assemble kirby out of pokemon parts eyes from sudowoodo and body from jilggpypuff or smthn but like its interesring cuz i can def see how u would think that kirby is a pokemon looking at them side by side but also like it feels wrong to me now as i fink abt it further. liike idk kirby seems too alive to be a pokemon. he has a soul. he stares back at you. he challenges ur gaze in a way a pokemon just doesnt. pokemon r so clearly passive things made to be owned. kirby has an interiority. he is playful curious brave angry hungry sleepy dumb glad to be alive. he wants things. hungry! and ik that objectively pokemon do all these things too but they dont do it in the same spirit. kirby is hungry. the pokemone can only perform hunger for you. a pokemon is just essentially a slave and nothing that it is or does is for itself as an autonomous subjectivity but rather for you. a pokemon is a whimpering disgusting persistent thing that is nothing without you which begs w you pleads w u performs 4 u so fucking obedient theyll die for u without a seocnd through since withotu you there is no them ot begin w. the pokemon stop existing when oyu turn off the game when you deletre the save file. kirby is slepeing and eating and flying and cooking and having misadventures no matter what. kirby is more alive than a pokemon. to make a pokemon like kirby would be to unmake pokemon. what is a pokemon but a "pcoket monster" a monster that is defined entirely in relation to how you can store them and breed them and make them fight each other for your amusement. im not saying pokemon trainers cant b nice im not saying theyre evil for doing this to the pokemon (ik pokemon dont rlly die). aa trianer can be v kiund and considerate and lovely to their pokemon and give them lots of treats and so on. and yet in all this it wil lremain true that as hermann cohen said abt the poor and impoverished of the world in trying to solve the problem of evil without becoming a based gnostic like me the pokemon whines and complains and needs attention and lvove from you so that you may play the role of the savior. a pokemon suffers so that you may save it. everything that a pokem,on is it is for you. kirby meanwhile exists purely and entirely in and with hhimself a self-contained unity of being gradually sucking the outside in as a kind of light-hearted play without malice or forethought. the beings that eat worlds r generally dumb and stupid and happy. the devourers of worlds r bimbos and himbos and thembos one and all and may God strike me down if we will not be saved by them as we once scourged by them in a great revaluation of values what one might call a third way revaluation btwn the one proposed by nietzsche and what he supposed to be the initial revaluations of nietzsche and by third way i mean everybody fink abt urself try tio look hot and pretty and dumb capitalism is the only possible economic system baka no thoguths. head empty. just vibes. nudge theory. tax rebates. cultural pluralism. computers r the future. id cards. id cards. id cards. id cards. id cards. id cards. modern art is a concept btwn space and time

[grandhotelabyss]

Opinions on Martyr Made?

I only ever listened to one episode a few years back, the five-hour one on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. I thought it was somewhat entertaining but tendentious and ultimately wrong-headed. I agree in the abstract with his conclusion that Dostoevsky is greater than Nietzsche—and that all the strange affinities and synchronicities between them make them uniquely worthy of a comparative study—but he moralized it essentially via Girard into an argument that Dostoevsky was a better person on Christian grounds, hanging Nietzsche's analysis of ressentiment around his own outcast neck, the un-returned prodigal. That is debatable—much about Dostoevsky surely wasn't so nice, even in the end, and Nietzsche for his part had his own charms and graces—but it is for my purposes irrelevant. No one's life is perfect; judge not, lest ye be judged. I simply think Dostoevsky practiced the higher art form. Dostoevsky did not show more humanity than Nietzsche; rather, the novel includes more humanity than philosophical discourse.

MM's breathy, earnest, thoughtful, and deep-voiced delivery of the Christian moral, however, in keeping with my theory of the podcast as affective environment, suggests an "alternative modernity": what NPR sounds like under fascism. ("Fascist" is the man's semi-self-description.) I'm not a history buff, so I haven't listened to his other material. As for the recent controversy, I didn't pay attention and try to stay away from strenuous arguments about historical events that are really charged allegories for present-day ideological conflicts (this describes all arguments about historical events).

[nickslays05]

The End of Evangelion

Hello again everyone! I have now watched the end of The End of Evangelion and I can definitely say it was an intense and complex anime film that delves deeply into psychological and philosophical themes. It addresses both Japanese societal issues as well as universal ones. The movie serves as an alternate ending to the series Neon Genesis Evangelion, offering a more explicit exploration of the character's internal struggles and the broader implications of their actions. Here is my deeper analysis of this film: One of the prominent issues that was addressed in The End of Evangelion is the sense of isolation and identity crisis, which resonates strongly in Japanese society, particularly among the younger generation. Japan has faced a significant rise in cases of social withdrawal, known as hikikomori, where individuals shut themselves off from society. The protagonist, Shinji Ikari, embodies this sense of isolation and the struggle to find self-worth and connection. His journey through the film mirrors the psychological battles many young people face, both in Japan and globally, as they navigate the pressures of societal expectations and personal identity. On a global scale, the film's exploration of existential dread and the search for meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe speaks to a universal human experience. The apocalyptic imagery and themes of destruction and rebirth reflect broader concerns about environmental degradation, nuclear threats, and the fragility of human civilization. The film challenges viewers to confront their fears and anxieties about the future and the human condition. About assigned readings, the themes of The End of Evangelion align with existentialist philosophy, particularly the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche. The film's portrayal of characters grappling with freedom, choice, and the construction of their meaning echoes existentialist ideas about the human condition. Additionally, the psychological depth of the characters aligns with the concepts explored in Carl Jung's theories of individuation and the collective unconscious.  In conclusion, The End of Evangelion is a powerful film that addresses both specific societal issues in Japan and broader, universal concerns. Its exploration of isolation, identity, and existential dread offers a profound commentary on the human condition, resonating with viewers on a deeply personal level. The film's themes and imagery challenge us to reflect on our own lives and the world around us, making it a timeless and impactful piece of art.

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary278

6/21-22/24

friday - saturday

another day up too late playing video games.

i am not like this mostly, these days at least, it's fun though, it makes me kind of happy i can go here, again, like being younger i guess or something. today fsr there's a free weekend thing going on w/ sony so i have access to the online for a little bit, it's really pleasant seeing all the messages and bloodstains around honestly, it reminds me of when i played dark souls for the first time and got to see all that. idk. really magical stuff, this is really getting at that nostalgia a bit, now that i reflect on it, though it's very different, and definitely not out to recapture anything dark souls had, cuz w/ dark souls it's this journey through levels, this is floatier because of the open world and stuff, the look is also way different, i do miss dark souls' sharpness w/ textures and how metal looked, i still think that and demon's souls could be their best looking engine? idk. bloodborne and elden ring both have really perfect art direction generally so it's not like i dislike how they look, it's just idk, those engines had something weird and special in them, these new games are also weird and special though.

beyond that, the more time i spend w/ the game and the dlc, the more i feel, though i am not totally convinced/able to make it declarative, that the game has some kind of literary theory lodged in it, or all the souls games have philosophy lodged in them, i can't tell how deliberate it ever is, the general nietzschean qualities across all of them, and then the ways they move from that, what else they employ/look at, absorb (digest?) and make use/waste of, make waste the better turn of phrase here (this only means i love what they do more), in terms of history/culture, past(s (plural because multiple + alternate reads on that past within the same context/moment/history staring back on itself)), anyhow with this sense that there's a heavier kind of thought lodged in the games, and the sense of a movement of thought in all of them, from demon's souls being an almost desperately pessimistic thing, to dark souls being more ambivalent and curious about why these things have come to or what enabled them, the manufacturing of morality, the development of the incorrect, what the human "is" in a cluster of ways, humanity against itself, from there most of what comes after is in debt, and squarely this feels like or recalls to me everything i hear/make of the french leftist reads of nietzsche. this isn't to say secretly the games are communist, they are though rather intensely pointed at using thought + strange notions against empire and morality, making explicit in the world colonial/exploitative facts of existence and then making you go through the overturning/transvaluation of things, contending with eternal recurrence in the klossowski sense w/ the gameplay, you go through malady to mania, that kind of thing. anyway that's the way it feels/comes off to me, in a strange way elden ring is the one so far that seems to come closest to pointing at literature, this is hard to think of all examples of, i suppose there are 'none', but what i mean is, the way ritual is employed, the shaky nature of religiosity in the game, what's become of death and whatever, the impossibility of death, this feels it sets one into a bataillean frame almost, where there's excess energies that cannot be wasted, life is eternal + useful, or that is the ideal, that is the disaster you are contending with through much of the game. beyond that however, generally in the game, it seems aware of the need to develop a subhuman for the human, to create the human, and it illustrates that drive in the general cruelty of the broad powers of the land. blah blah blah, anyway in the dlc, it gets really explicit, i feel like, you go to a whole castle level and a huge part of it is this specimen archive zone, where the misshapen/graceless things are hung and displayed, the example is kept and studied! messmer is so oddly and explicitly fascistic a villain, for the series, it's genuinely going out of its way it feels, to make that faction feel intensely evil.

however, i would like to say, i guess for the sake of honesty, that out of all the lanky pale evil villain characters people think are hot, messmer is one of the ones to do it for me. maybe it's the snakes, they make him like, cuter, idk. the cutscene where you see him is really something though, it just made me go, wow, i really really like him. the other characters to do this for me were from dark souls 3, the incest yaoi brothers, where there's weak one hanging on his brother's back and the stronger brother with broken legs drags him around on his back and fights you, and if you kill the stronger brother, the weak one heals him. frustrating fight totally saved by the fact that you know they were made to make you think about them fucking. ds3 is freakishly sexual, i think, maybe. or maybe not. idk. maybe i am telling on myself, elden ring is only slightly less bizarre, on that scale, i think.

any wayyyyyyyyyy, uhmmmm,

thinking about devi mccallion uploading a video about homestuck today and saying her favorite character is andrew hussy because she is also "an ugly blogger who fumbled the bag also." which is a powerful statement. i don't think either of them are ugly, though. hussy just looks like his lips got stung by a bee but it works out for him. some people get away with that look.

here's a song i'm listening to right now:

anyway i really have to sleep, so

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dreams-of-mutiny]

MORTIMER ADLER’S READING LIST (PART 2)

Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler (1972 edition).

Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws

Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets

David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography

James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers

Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History

William Wordsworth: Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma

Carl von Clausewitz: On War

Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love

Lord Byron: Don Juan

Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism

Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity

Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology

Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy

Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography

Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times

Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden

Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto

George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories

Henrik Ibsen: Plays

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger

William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism

Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power

Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces

Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography

Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry

Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas

George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places

Lenin: The State and Revolution

Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers

Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics

James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses

Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism

Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle

Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial

Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

Source: mortimer-adlers-reading-list

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Comp Reading Lists

In an attempt to self-study several areas and expand my own knowledge, improve my ability to do research, and keep current with fields of interest, I'm building my own "comps list" here of relevant books. There are so many academic articles that I'm not sure if I'll include them here, but I'd like to at least track my reading of books. Comps lists are typically for Ph.D. students studying for exams, but I thought it might be a useful tool for me too. If you have suggestions, I welcome them.

BTS Studies

BTS, Art Revolution, Jiyoung Lee.

BTS and ARMY Culture, Jeeheng Lee.

BTS: The Review, Youngdae Kim.

Philosophizing about BTS, Cha Minju.

Bumping into BTS, Ji Kim, Mick Shin, and Jane Do.

Map of the Soul - Persona: Our Many Faces, Murray Stein.

Fan Studies

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Henry Jenkins.

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.

Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Mark Duffett.

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.

Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans, Mel Stanfill.

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Jonathan Gray, Cornell Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington.

Fan Cultures, Matt Hills.

Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline, Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael.

The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, Lisa Lewis.

The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse.

Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms, Brit Kelley.

Fandom as Classroom Practice: A Teaching Guide, Katherine Anderson Howell.

Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies, Jungmin Kwon.

Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, Judith Fathallah.

Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande.

Game Studies

Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture, Megan Condis.

Learning in Video Game Affinity Spaces, Sean Duncan.

Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity, Shira Chess.

Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming, T.L. Taylor.

Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Video Games, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux.

The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture is the Worst, Christopher Paul.

My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, Bonnie Nardi.

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds, Celia Pearce.

Ethics, Psychology, & Philosophy

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, Joan Tronto.

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, Murray Stein.

The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held.

Research Ethics in the Real World, Helen Kara.

The Portable Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Kaufmann.

General Reading & Methods

Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You, Thomas Mullaney and Christopher Rea.

The Practice of Qualitative Research: Engaging Students in the Research Process, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber.

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation, Sonja Foss and William Waters.

Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Series Books, William Germano.

Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces, Etienne Wenger-Trayner and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie Nardi, et. al.

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, James Paul Gee.

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The Magic Circle (1886) by J. W. Waterhouse

"Why not woo woo?  The rational stuff hasn't taken us very far.  We are in an incredible time of suffering.  So I think it's time to get a little more woo woo. [...] And I think astrology also is radical in that it turns the power back to the people.  It's not mediated through the priest.  In every single ancient church in Europe, there are zodiac symbols everywhere.  It wasn't until men said, 'You must go through me, not direct knowing of the cosmos' that astrology was banned and made for witches and insane people."

— Jennifer Freed in What’s Your Sign? Astrology's Modern Renaissance (2023)

"Above all, science cannot dispel religion by showing it to be an illusion.  The rationalist philosophy according to which religion is an intellectual error is fundamentally at odds with scientific inquiry into religion as a natural human activity.  Religion may involve the creation of illusions.  But there is nothing in science that says illusion may not be useful, even indispensable, in life."

— John N. Gray, Seven Types of Atheism (2018)

"Twice as many women as men follow astrology, and it seems, to me at least, that there's a large percentage of men who just look down their noses at it."

— Dylan Winton, The Astrology Book for Men: A Guide to Understanding Zodiac Signs, Birth Charts, Horoscopes, and Everything Else Women are Talking About (2022)

"In The Confessions, modelled on Augustine’s, Rousseau says a childhood incident formed his adult sexual tastes.  He is eight, beaten and inadvertently aroused by a woman of thirty.  Since then, his desires have been masochistic: “To fall on my knees before a masterful mistress, to obey her commands, to have to beg for her forgiveness, have been to me the most delicate of pleasures.”  In love, he is passive; women must make the first move.  Rousseau ends the sexual scheme of the great chain of being, where male was sovereign over female. [...] Rousseau’s nature-theory is grounded in sex.  Worshipping nature means worshipping woman.  She is a mysterious superior force."

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

"When Nietzsche said “supposing truth is a woman, what then?” he may have intuited the mother from whom males cannot really separate, the woman whose loss hurls one into a narcissistic wound that derives from the loss of fusion and omnipotence. [...] The emergence of weakness as a permitted masculine attribute depends upon a man’s integrated awareness that he stands as one among a world of interdependent individuals.  His shame is not to be feared, for it simply includes him in humanity’s lot, which even God had to join if he were to reconcile himself to his failings towards humankind.  Woman can be seen in a new light: rather than seeing the evil succubus, a woman becomes the mother who bears the mystery and misery of life through his seed, as well as providing for his pleasure."

— Mary Ayers, Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine (2011)

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Was ist eine Krise?

Krise ist, was kreist oder kreischt.

1.

Husserl, ein Zeitgenosse Warburgs, trägt ab 1935 zu Krisen vor und macht daraus eine Altersschrift, eine Art De senectute, nur anders. Die beiden Staatstafeln sind Warburgs Summen und auch Altersschriften, zumindest was seine über dreißigjährige Beschäftigung mit dem Recht betrifft.

Warburg ist immer noch damit beschäftigt, Krisen zu bewältigen, sowohl diejenigen, die ihm eigen als auch diejenigen, die ihm fremd sind. Und so sind beide Tafeln auch als Krisengraphiken lesbar. Krisen zu zeichnen heißt dort zuerst, das Schreiben kreisen oder kreischen zu lassen, im Schreiben zum Beispiel nicht alles auf Schrift oder Sprache oder Bild zu verpflichten, sondern als Choreographie auch ins Begehren, Verkehren und Verzehren, in Krach oder Noise oder ins Rauschen zu lassen - und Warburg verliert darin seine Präzision nicht, wie auch Husserl seine Mitteilungen von Krisen nicht zur Abbruch der Mitteilbarkeit werden lässt.

2.

Krise ist Pathologie, die bringt Warburg in Form und lässt durch die Form Bewegung gehen, u.a. mit seinen Pathosformeln, mit Tabellen und anderen Polobjekten. Warburg zieht zwar nicht auf Tafel 78 Kreise, nicht im geometrischen Sinne, aber auf Tafel 79 (und nutzt schon die ins Bild geratene Architektur der Stanzen im Vatikan, um Bilder elliptisch kreisen zu lassen, also sprung- und schubhaft sowie gehemmt zu bewegen). Damit kreischen die Bilder so, wie die Säuglinge kreischen, also zwar vague und fagierend (zum Verzehren) und doch bestimmt und präzise. Das macht die Graphik wie die Choreographie anfänglich, macht sie kindisch, macht sie in jenem Sinne nietzscheanisch halbgeschrieben, sogar halbgraphisch, der nicht auf das Fragmentarische und nicht auf die Totale zielt, sondern auf Wechselbarkeit. Das Halbgeschriebene und Halbgraphische ist in sein Anderes oder das Übrige übergehbar. Warburg ist nicht Nietzsche, ich will nur auf Affinitäten und Übersetzungen hinweisen.

3.

Wie komm ich gerade darauf? Gabriel de Brito, einer unsere Gäste, hat ein Projekt zu Krisen in den Zwanziger Jahren, in dem Fall zu den Leuten, die am Anfang der kritischen Theorie sich dem Recht widmeten. Weil ich an der Kritischen Theorie Frankfurter Schule Abteilung Benjamin hänge, nicht an der Abteilung Nichtbenjamin, und weil mit die Vermittler der Kritischen Theorie nicht die Frankfurter Institutionen, sondern weil das Alexander Kluge, Bazon Brock und Cornelia Vismann waren, will ich Gabriel de Brito ein bisschen Warburg oder überhaupt ästhetische Praxis unterjubeln.

Darum prepariere ich gerade, was ich unter Krise verstehe. Kurz gesagt: Säuglinge zum Beispiel, die saugen wollen. Oder aber: Warburgs Staatstafeln, zumindest zeigen sie Krise krisenhaft und doch gar nicht so katastrophal oder apokalyptisch, eher alltäglich und als etwas, was nicht nur mitten im Alltag, sondern mitten in der Welt ist und zu ihr gehört, seitdem sie aus den Fugen und auch flüchtig und fügend ist.