Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound

Find and read Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound

Preface
PART I: DESTROYING THE MANIFEST IMAGE
The Apoptosis of Belief
The Thanatosis of Enlightenment
The Enigma of Realism
PART II: THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION
Unbinding the Void
Being-Nothing
PART III: THE END OF TIME
The Pure and Empty Form of Death
The Truth of Extinction
Bibliography

-- an excellent discussion/response by Logical Regression: http://logicalregression.blogspot.com/

to hell with it

mother has new shoes. She likes her new shoes. She likes walking in her new shoes. Every step is a statement of her self assured way. Her shoes look pretty on her feet. She likes the sound they make. Shoes with heels are not like slippers. Shoes with heels make a sound when you walk. The balance you strike gives your walk a womanly way. It enhances your femaleness. It's very pretty walking this way.

mother went to art school and now sells paintings. Mother would like to share her experience as an artist. she thinks "trace" and "memory" are recurring themes in her visual work. She's "concerned" by these notions. These notions concern her.

Mother handled his funeral skilfully. Mother cried some. At night she broke down. "What shall I do, she says her hand posed on my shoulder, now I don't have my little brother no more?" I think that I don't know what she shall do. but I sure as hell know what she will do.

mother has new shoes. She likes her new shoes. She likes walking in her new shoes. Every step is a statement of her self assured way. Her shoes look pretty on her feet. She likes the sound they make. Shoes with heels are not like slippers. Shoes with heels make a sound when you walk. The balance you strike gives your walk a womanly way. It enhances your femaleness. It's very pretty walking this way.

idiot artists with idiot gallerists take 1

so sieht es aus

Eva. I have here a schematic portrait I've made of what it looks like inside Bruno. To whom all those swell nice people have progressively shut doors and portals, in that fine manner of theirs. Now we're in America. I used to think that in America everything would get better, that we would finally reach our goal. No! Bruno is being slaughtered as if he wasn't there no more! Today you wouldn't recognise him. -- Bruno nobody kicks you here no more -- No. Not in that way. Not in a visible way but in a spiritual way. -- why.. -- Yes! In the homes it looked just like this.. When someone wet the bed, and this was during the Nazi period.. to save space on the drying line to hang clothes, the one who had done it had to stand like this in the courtyard holding the sheet, and behind him was the educator with a stave. And watch out if his arms started to go tired and the sheet would touch the ground... OK now I'll sit down again.. Yes, so -- Did you have to do that too? -- yes.. but that was all visible. But today of course things look different. They no longer do it like this! Or like this! One does it in that fine manner, and this fine way is much much worse... and who knows what else is in store for us.. -- I didn't understand what you said -- we're no longer in Germany, we have to be careful here -- Bruno don't be so upset -- upset? Upset, should I not be upset? When people are despised, when they are grown up, and when they long for love, and they are forbidden to enter the bedroom.. he's no longer allowed to sleep next to you, he has to sleep in a single bedroom like someone in a cage. -- Bruno listen, I also need to be alone -- right. And this is what it looks like when a man suffers pain and fear, and these are the spiritual pains and this is what they look like. And if you think that you can make it on your own here in America, you're damned. -- Bruno you must understand, it's only that I too need to be alone, I need my room for myself. I've never had a room for myself alone, I just need it. And look, if you sleep in the next room we're still in the same house. I doesn't mean that we're separated and we're together all day anyways. -- Well, I don't know to proceed in this any more. In that case I've really reached the end.

stare and wait

obscene post

a reminder of women's cerebral take on pleasure

baptize!

... the cretin variety of the human species that compulsively convulsively defecates when its anus is submerged by open water.

saliva

vito acconci - open book

sometimes a vague notion

invest

hire the insane

Tribulation

in native worth and honour clad -- Son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them: and consider that God made them out of nothing.

the good life

A man's attitude goes some ways - the way his life will be. Is that something you might agree with?

So since you agree, you may be someone who does not care about the good life.

Mulholland Drive - a film by David Lynch

don't miss out

Born to Buy and breed. A happy life is a successful life -- careers, ambitions, friends, husbands, wives and primary schools. Cars, drivers licence, bicycles, recycling, voting, reading, dentists, therapies, shopping lists and washing up. Simple enough.

FUNCTION, adapt, be satisfied, compassionate to the lesser fortunate -- think of your family, drink moderately, be confident, well thought of, an example to your friends. Focus, be reliable, never late, always pleasant, friendly, understanding, invest in everything and everyone worthy of your time.


Act now - apologise later.

where did all these fluids go

-- secretion is the process of segregating, elaborating, and releasing chemicals from a cell, or a secreted chemical substance or amount of substance. In contrast to excretion, the substance may have a certain function, rather than being a waste product --