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Joined June 2022
We regret to inform you that the Tropik Reading Group has been cancelled due to the destabilisation of the petrodollar and the surging popularity of anime online. It is now beastly dead, but good times were had. We shall be pursuing alternate vectors in the new year, stay tuned!
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Florensky's noumenal place(вместилище ноуменального) is very similar to the late Schelling's intellectual space, which they both call heaven. However, in Florensky, intellectual space and empirical space are topologically entangled,
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On August 30th we will meet to discuss The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. We shall pay attention to how his "metaphysics of sensation" connects with the idealist tradition. Once again, there is the fragment motif that we have touched on with Novalis, Schlegel & Leopardi.
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On the 26th of July we shall convene to discuss Spinoza's ETHICS (ordine geometrico demonstrata). 'Free of metaphor and myth, he grinds a stubborn crystal: the infinite map of the One who is all His stars.' —Borges, 'Spinoza' (tr. R. Howard & C. Rennert) editor @
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On June 21st at 8pm BST / 3pm EST / noon PST, we will be discussing Clarice Lispector's Apple in the Dark. We will be using the Rabassa translation in the session itself. Please listen to nothing but Brahms's Symphony No.4 in E minor until the event. editor @ tropik . space
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Upcoming events: - May 31 - Sarduy's Barroco (cosmovision-pilled) - June 21 - Lispector's personal favourite amongst her novels, The Apple in the Dark - July 26 - lens master Spinoza's Ethics 👓 - August 30 - Bernardo Soares's Book of Disquiet - September 27 - Deleuze's The Fold
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On May 31st, we shall meet to discuss Severo Sarduy's monumental Barroco. We will touch upon the baroque & neobaroque, the poetry of Góngora, the history of cosmology from Plato to relativity and Cassirer's theory of symbolic forms... editor @ https://t.co/7PTktwxg4Z
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One thing I think will become apparent with distance in time is how computerization / modernization - considered a good in itself - actually tremendously impaired how organizations function. In many ways the richness and malleability of paper has never been recaptured.
The tragedy of overzealous modernization:
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F. Schlegel Month in February. If you do not read Schlegel, you will be sent to jail!
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For the Almanac, I translate some miscellaneous prose from Jean Paul, pieces about volcanoes, earthquakes, rainbows and more:
paradise-almanac.net
"I do not know what it is," Walt said, "but I find no true poem."
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'And it is all one to me Where I am to begin; for I shall return there again.' (Parmenides, tr. Gallop)
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'...art requires the self-enclosed and limited, whereas the spirit of the world drives towards the unrestricted [...] the individual must step into this conflict, employ absolute freedom, and try to extract enduring forms from this mixture of the age' (Schelling, tr. Stott)
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'The Divine Comedy is so self-enclosed that the theory abstracted from the other genres is totally inadequate for it. It requires its own theory, constitutes its own genre, and is a world unto itself.' (Schelling, 'Construction of the Forms of Art', Philosophy of Art tr. Stott)
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'The science of philosophy no longer has to begin from the remote distance of abstract thoughts, in order to climb down from there to nature. The direction is now the reverse.' (Schelling, The Ages of the World 1811)
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'Can the philosopher not return to the simplicity of history, like the divine Plato, whose works are dialectical throughout, but at the summit and point of transfiguration become the simple telling of a story?' (Schelling, The Ages of the World 1811)
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