Zero Brain Cells Left

 On Learning in a State of Distraction (a poetic manifesto) "we are too afraid of going mad" -georges bataille lightning staves in the atmosphere the notion of the genius and of the hero surely do not apply to Jesus Christ discourse networks loop in concentric and yes your face too is  a kind of circle or strange loop like ducks quacking and trucks revving. "what a tremendous misunderstanding appears in this word 'genius' Archives (for example audiobooks) hook us into networks of discourse. These networks are by nature fragmentary The self-help mantra, "fake it til you make it" alludes to a space of performativity which              as zizek said pascal meets 12 step culture By reiterating itself we are repeating, and these repetitions gradually grow in strength, as if a roller-coaster were built according to the tactics of Kiesler's endless house, whose scruples went so far as to suggest that the best medicine for arc...

  Religious ritual creates a fixed space, a kind of standing in place, whose repetitions only ever involve partial catharsis (assuming we are speaking of orthodox religion). Thought is itself not unlike the experience of being initiated into it, i.e. the process of reading. The movement from beginning to end, the completion of the dialectical circle, requires that we suspend judgement and in a sense, suspend the organs in Deleuze's sense. In this sense, religion is akin to an obsessional neurosis, or, in the language of modern psychiatry, attention deficit disorder. For one does not "read" the bible, i.e. the religious person repeatedly affirms the supposed truths which it contains, and returns always to a limited number of fixed points, as someone who prays the rosary alternately repeats the lord's prayer and the hail mary. The more repetitive, the better, for the religious individual. But for the thinker properly speaking, this total certainty is replaced with wha...