CRYPTIC ABORTIONS: MEDITATIONS ON BLACK GNOSTICISM
On Yaldabaoth, Monadic Evil, Jesus Christ the Victor, Subjectivity, despair, filmic reality, and DEATH.
For the new followers:
All my excerpt posts contain the titles of the respective books for easy searching. I provide brief (but quite substantial) commentary, NO THREADS. I've posted about almost all Baudrillard books. I particularly recommend Fatal Strategies.
For the new followers:
I have read and posted excerpts from almost all of Baudrillard's books. All excerpt posts contain the titles of the respective books for easy searching. Minimal commentary. NO threads. I have also posted about Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian.
If D*rwinians were intellectually honest they would confess that the digestive system is the master, not the reproductive, and that the whole body is a byproduct of indefinite excremental accumulation, not genetic iteration.
On impossible exchange. The non-contradiction between the worst of Parmenides and the worst of Heraclitus: motion with no object, more permanent than permanence itself—the ouroboric body of Yaldabaoth.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997) is the first Baudrillardean film. One only has to consider the reading that Mamiya is Bluebeard to compromise the usual signifier-signified "relation".
On impossible exchange. Again, Différence alone is guilty of indefinite venality, putrefaction, "jouissance", etc. One only has to consider the Baudrillardean sign as identical with the "Christian" word for the—truly Christian—Gnostic revelation of absolute odium.
M: I know where the reality is.
B: If you knew you would have it with you.
M: I can find it from the senses. I know where it is.
B: I know something better.
M: What's that?
B: I know where it's going to be.
M: Where is that?
B: It will be brought to me and placed at my feet.
The horror of Wake in Fright is Baudrillardean: everything from the gambling scenes (chance is everywhere but there), to the bar commemoration (the secret), to the "body horror" (the horror of bodies as such), to the desert (indefinite dispossession); all dripping with Evil.
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign added to the chart. Much better than I assumed based on the date, definitely recommend it. Also, I recall reading that Deleuze addressed it somewhere. Can someone link me the text in question? Thank you.
As you can see, it's not as radical as the schizo triad, or as sprawling as Symbolic Exchange and Death, but it is in the schizo-theory quarter, perhaps the only other big book in there.
On Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Its Baudrillardean anti-fiction, its condemnation of the crime of reality, its acknowledgement of the principle of Evil, and, moreover, its Christocentric Gnosticism.
Looking for Blackness: Blood Meridian Is a Gnostic Treatise.
A VERY brief thesis on the Gnosticism (and Calvinism), how it relates to Baudrillard, specifically his distinction from Continentalism. Fast and loose. Will write a longer one in due time.
The Mirror of Production. Note that Baudrillard is the only one who takes Continentalism THIS seriously, hence his excommunication: Philosophical perversity can survive everything but being taken for its word, not unlike Ontological perversity and the Christological advent.
I suppose that it is a major text, nonetheless, so I will add it to the chart. Will also add the first four books whenever I get around to reading them.
For the new followers:
I have read and posted excerpts from almost all of Baudrillard's books. All excerpt posts contain the titles of the respective books for easy searching. Minimal commentary. NO threads. I have also posted about Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian.
Simulacra and Simulation. On Nihilism. Elaboration on going beyond Nihilism, not toward a better hypothesis, but toward a worse one. Also, a confession!