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Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

I see there's a buzzing of fakes and masks of fakes around, not bad as an expressionist cabaret.

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

Yes, but it is precisely this continuous connection to critical rationality that prevents inspiration from becoming dogma or delusion, don’t you think??

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

The spirit as inspiration, as direct intuition, the spark accessible to anyone who knows how to quiet their mind, suspending memory, desire, and preconceptions, as Reich suggested. This means that each of us can be a prophet, not just those who are defined as such by various confessions. A prophet or genius is someone who knows how to listen to the word that comes from silence, not from other words deposited in books or the recesses of memory.

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

Regarding Freud, I was talking about where the spark of intuition/inspiration might arise, Freud spoke of it as "original light," which corresponds to the Illumination; inspiration is not attention, a prerogative of the congregation of scientists, just as it is not of the congregation of priests. The original light is available to every man who wishes to break free from the darkness of habits and mental conditioning. You may be too covered in worldly matters to enter this perspective; I understand your difficulties, but let us also try not to take for granted Enlightenment and scientific beliefs to explain the movements of the spirit and the origins of artistic inspiration. Otherwise, it seems we are discussing in a French salon of the 19th century.

The Fall Live At The Witch Trials

22 sep 06

Voto:

Yes, but it is this constant connection to critical rationality that prevents inspiration from becoming dogma or delirium, don't you think??

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

On this I would have something to say, though, Pene. I mean, no matter how much one tries to silence everything that is already known, a human brain can never completely erase its assumptions or the conditions of its historical existence. It follows that every inspiration, even the highest, will always be more or less conditioned by the unconscious assumptions that the subject has not managed to neutralize. For this reason, intuitive or inspired knowledge, or noetic, as the ancients used to say, must always be placed in a dialectical relationship with critical or discursive knowledge, or dianoetic.

The Fall Live At The Witch Trials

22 sep 06

Voto:

The spirit as inspiration, as direct intuition, the spark accessible to anyone who knows how to quiet their mind, suspending memory, desire, and preconceptions, as Reich suggested. This means that each of us can be a prophet, not just those who are defined as such by various confessions. A prophet or genius is someone who knows how to listen to the word that comes from silence, not from other words deposited in books or the recesses of memory.

The Fall Live At The Witch Trials

22 sep 06

Voto:

About Freud, I was talking about where the spark of intuition/inspiration might arise; Freud referred to it as "original light," which corresponds to Illumination, inspiration. It is not attention, a prerogative of the congregation of scientists, just as it is not of the congregation of priests. The original light is available to every person who wants to break free from the darkness of habits and mental conditioning. Perhaps you are too covered by the mundane to enter into this perspective; I understand your difficulties, but let’s also try not to take for granted Enlightenment and scientific beliefs to explain the movements of spirit and the origins of artistic inspiration; otherwise, it seems like we are speaking in a French salon of the 1800s.

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

Tautologies?? Do I seem reassuring to you?? Do you think I'm proceeding with approximations?? Or through assonances in a sort of onomatopoeic orgy that perhaps penetrates the circle of the work far more than the critical and theoretical aculeus?? You see, tautologies are inevitable in a discourse; it’s not about talking to yourself in this case, speaking is to encounter tautologies. There are those who can even equip themselves with autonomous procedures to proliferate theorems endlessly if the one who devises them is creative enough, so to someone who tells me that I speak in tautologies, I can’t respond— in dogmatics, only questions are given, and never answers (you should know this well given your CIBI-inspired influences).

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

22 sep 06

Voto:

the regular structures you have in your brain are those of everyday people, of those who go to church, or of those who go to the disco to avoid going to church, they are the ones who register in political parties.