#conceptuality

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

No one has any obligations to a concept; that is what is so agreeable about conceptuality--it promises protection from experience.

Carl Jung

[puutterings]

with bones, the pensive Moon-watcher moves

        In the black monolith, Kubrick has created his most startling and significant symbol which, we have seen, he understood in terms of a Jungian archetype, presumably the “God-concept.” As he told an interviewer in 1970, “the God concept is at the heart of the film.” “God-concept” is a Jungian term, like “God image” and “imago Dei,” that indicates — without regard to the existence or nonexistence of “God” – psychic readiness for symbolization:

Although the God-concept is a a spiritual principle par excellence, the collective metaphysical need nevertheless insists that it is at the same time a conception of the First Cause, from which proceed all those instinctual forces that are opposed to the spiritual principle . . . God would thus be not only the essence of spiritual light . . . but also the darkest, nethermost cause of Nature’s blackest deeps.

      We may imagine that some kind of communication is taking place between the hominids and the monolith, but what we see and hear is their confrontation with a symbol. As a symbol, it does not impart information but draws out unconscious material. After his first analytic session with the monolith, Moon-watcher realizes, through playing with the remains of an animal, that a bone is not only a sign, but a symbol of death. Like Hamlet puttering with bones, the pensive Moon-watcher moves from play to insight. As he begins to see the possibility of the femur as a weapon, his grip tightens and conceptuality is attained. In other words, when objects are no longer seen as things in themselves but as constituents of thought, a revolution in cognition has occurred.

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from the last of these 11 chapters : Thinking; Corporeality; Time; War; Light; Eros; Music; Technology; Speech; Poiesis; and Transcendence, in Philip Kuberski, Kubrick’s Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities (2012) : 166 : link initial landing : link

the Jung passage is, evidently, from The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, §103 : link

Kuberski’s book looks good, will read.  

[necromimetics]

can’t stop thinking about my friend’s cishet partner who said last night that he doesn’t think anyone is the same gender. god-tier take.

[brockdavis]

Recently, while staring far too long at a potato chip, it occurred to me that the ridges could possibly be used to create a lenticular effect. So I got out some chip dip (and the smallest paint brush I have) to test it out. I started with a simple 2-frame illustration of a football and a basketball, then I painted a little sour cream and onion dip bird. 🥔🕊️ - via my new @brockdavisart instagram

[requiem-on-water]

Louise Bourgeois, What Is the Shape of This Problem?, New York: Galerie Lelong, 1999

[000bun]

[punkitt-is-here]

discord you scamp

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Monty and TADC Gummigoo are so alike!

[aerequets]

CRITICAL HIT

[kimeoshi]

Corrupted Ratio for Twitter! Reached 2k followers and he won in a prompt game

Timelapse:

[worldwright]

still so incredibly not over how season 1 "I'm sorry I left you alone" Martin became season 5 "why won't you kill the guy I'm romantically jealous of???" Martin and how they are so clearly The Same Martin and we just did not see the deranged depths of his soul until then

[howlsnteeth]

24/05/2020

[gemsbokk]

raphael costeau

[disease]

"WAITING FOR YOU TO COME HOME" NOELIA TOWERS // 2021 [oil on canvas | 30 x 40"]

[d-m-nagu]

Hinter den Dünen beginnt der Wald (2024), a series of collages about the origins of queer desires, ca. 15x22 cm

Paper Works by D.M. Nagu

[requiem-on-water]

“Endless Echo Hat” by Heidi Lee