Nin on writing
From The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
I think we should always write about what we know, or what we wish to know.
Hell yeah!
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The way bananas tasted when I was a kid
From Warren Ellis’s blog:
I’m eating blueberries and listening to the radio. Yesterday, I ate a banana that tasted exactly the way bananas tasted when I was a kid.
This is one of those descriptions of a quotidian moments that tend to capture my attention when I encounter
Another interesting production from Claude AI on jouissance & the void
As I continued chatting with Claude AI about the concept of the void in Lacan's teaching, the AI started to make connections between jouissance and the void. I found this production interesting.
Jouissance is intimately connected to the void. It represents an attempt to fill the fundamental lack
More on the void
I found the passage below in this paper by Éric Laurent.
In the seminar on The Object of Psychoanalysis, he took up the first sentences from his first Seminar on the action of the Zen master: “Everyone knows, though one does not know what it means, that a Zen exercise
Void
I've been trying to develop a better understanding of the concept of the void in Lacan's teaching. As I've been trying to do this I've been supplementing my readings (of Lacan and prominent Lacanians) with exchanges with different LLM AIs.
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Dark Matter
From this thread on Reddit:
Basically all we know about dark matter is that it is responsible for binding galaxies together despite their high rate of rotation. If it were just the gravity from visible matter holding galaxies together, they would fly apart at their current rate of rotation. There’
A new “Hello world!”
From The Journal 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau.
Oct. 22 [1837] "What are you doing now?" he asked. "Do you keep a journal?" So I make my first entry to-day.
I propose this become the standard first blog post instead of “Hello world!”
Dark matter as information
From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter:
I’d tripped over an article somewhere that suggests that dark matter is the fifth form of matter, and the fifth form of matter is information. It’s everywhere but invisible because it’s cold, inert information storage stuck to the fabric
Between Generations.
From the post Best Days on Jack Cheng’s blog, where he is writing g about becoming a parent.
[I realized] that I am now in between generations. My sense of time is eroding beneath my feet. The scope of my life feels, suddenly, both broader and narrower than before.
Perfect Days | Two Quotes
Watching Perfect Days, (directed by Wim Wenders) these line strikes me:
The world is made of many worlds. Some are connected, and some are not.
Next time is next time. Now is now.