Tuesday, 26 August 2008

The Notbook

Brown
1889- 1951 (W) Wittgenstein birth and death dates
Aethletics (Aesthetic athletics)
eudaimania / the study of happiness eudomonia, 'mania' denoting fascination
introducing
Writing as and writing of.

THE EXCLUSION OF EVERYTHING ELSE AND THE PRIDE OF PLACE.
Bonfire in a coffee shop
"The point is to be european, not in jest but in actuality. Do not pretend. It is very important.Facts in English are of little importance until they are converted into the original "Legua Madre"

Terry Eagleton quotes

Knowledge is creative intuition
Nature is itself the supreme artefact
The root of the idea of the aesthetic is theogical
The aesthetic is securly secular
The truly austere, severe and regular restraintive character corresponds (not fights or thwarts) with the free, the easy the secure the bold
Shaftesbury/aristocratic/neo-platonist/antagonistic

The self pleasing end in itself

What if it were the case that not only morality, but cognition itself were 'aesthetic'? That sensation and intuition, far from figuring as its opposites were in fact its very basis

Reducing morality to mere sentiment threatens also to reduce knowledge to fictional hypothesis belief to an intense feeling - the continuing of the self to a fictional hypothesis, causality to an imaginative construct and history for a kind of text.

d'ete - date - summer exhibition

To die the death of art

Taste is beyond choice is beyond be.

"BEAT THE DRUM TILL IT CRIES SLEEP TO DEAD"
"I AM OBLIDGED TO BE AND AS MUCH I AM" (kinglear)

Seneca-it-is-not-that-life-is-short-but-we-who-make-it-appear-so-by-burning-up-time

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