Dimanche 21 septembre 2025

L’article discute de la valeur discutable de la lecture et de l’attrait croissant des réseaux sociaux comme TikTok sur la culture moderne.

Atypikal Life
« Essai sur le flottement » étant le sous-titre de l’ouvrage d’un peu plus de cent pages, #Vogl s’amuse à planer lui-même habilement sur les œuvres d’#Aristote, #Galilée, #Kant et l’idée que les Lumières pourraient partir de l’absence de limites ne permettant aucune définition précise, à l’instar de brouillard, #Goethe (« Wolkengestalt » de 1820, essai météorologique), #Calvino et #Borges, mais surtout « L'Homme sans qualités » de #Musil et « Der Proceß » et « Das Schloß » de #Kafka, évidemment, où l’éffet éphémère et nébuleux du récit est le résultat de ce que #Vogl appelle la quatrième personne grammaticale, le « discours indirect libre » de #Deleuze.
📖 #LasTribulacionesDelEstudiante #Törless, muy buena novela de #Musil. Acierta no alargando esta historia de castigo, de verdugos, de iniciación en la sexualidad...
7,5/10.
#Literatura.

This morning’s reading: the last (published) chapter

#TheManWithoutQualities #RobertMusil #Musil #book #translation

Leaving  #Mûsil / #الموصل / #Mosul governate towards  #Hewlêr / #أربيل / #Erbil. This was where the region with high ISIS presence ends with a last military checkpoint before arriving at today's #AzadiRail destination.

Peter Sloterdijk attestiert dem heutigen Europa Schwäche und Realitätsverlust. Ohne ein neues Bewusstsein für seine Eigenschaften drohe ihm Bedeutungslosigkeit. Eine Rezension

Ziehen wir die möglichst konfliktfreie Freizeitgestaltung der Arbeit am Europa von morgen vor? Peter Sloterdijk formuliert diese Diagnose. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften von Peter Sloterdijk)#Europa #Sloterdijk #Musil #Spengler #Abendland #Fanon #Kolonialismus #EuropäischeUnion #EU #Rom #Untergang #Hegel #Geschichtsphilosophie #Kultur #PsychologieHirnforschung
»Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften«: Weltgeschichte – in Zukunft ohne Europa?

»Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften«: Weltgeschichte – in Zukunft ohne Europa?

Ziehen wir die möglichst konfliktfreie Freizeitgestaltung der Arbeit am Europa von morgen vor? Peter Sloterdijk formuliert diese Diagnose. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften von Peter Sloterdijk)

«Se è attuazione di sogni ancestrali il poter volare con gli uccelli e navigare coi pesci, penetrare nel corpo di gigantesche montagne, inviare messaggi con la rapidità degli dei, scorgere e udire ciò che è invisibile e lontano, sentir parlare i morti, affondare in miracolosi sonni risanatori, vedere con occhi vivi l'aspetto che avremo vent'anni dopo la morte, nelle notti sfavillanti esser consapevoli di mille cose al di sopra e al di sotto di questo mondo, che nessuno conosceva prima; se luce, calore, forza, godimento, comodità sono i sogni primordiali dell'uomo, allora la ricerca odierna non è scienza soltanto: allora è anche magia, è un rito di grandissima forza sentimentale e intellettuale, che induce Dio a sollevare l'una dopo l'altra le pieghe del suo manto, una religione la cui dogmatica è retta e penetrata dalla dura, agile, coraggiosa logica matematica, fredda e tagliente come una lama di coltello.»
---[Rober Musil, L'uomo senza qualità, pag.39]
#letteratura #libri #musil
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion

- T.S. Eliot's East Coker

Both poets understood: if there is some power of goodness which shows up in the making of works of art, it is what compels us to go on reaching for the right words in the right order to give that goodness some flimsy hold on life.

Rilke: The Last Inward Man, by Lesley Chamberlain pg 15

Musil then proposed two categories of poem, to help us understand where to place Rilke. There are poems that ‘in a fixed world can heal or complete something in us; ornament our world, boost our feelings, let something new escape or begin… and there are poems that can’t forget the uneasiness, the inconstancy and the fragmentariness hidden in existence as a whole’.

Rilke: The Last Inward Man, by Lesley Chamberlain pg 27

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/28/each-venture-is-a-new-beginning-a-raid-on-the-inarticulate-2/

#discursiveGap #eliot #inarticulacy #Musil #Rilke #TSEliot

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

Trying to use words, and every attemptIs a wholly new start, and a different kind of failureBecause one has only learnt to get the better of wordsFor the thing one no longer has to say, or the way …

Mark Carrigan
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion

- T.S. Eliot's East Coker

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/28/current-mood-in-ai-generated-images-90/

#loss #Musil #poetry #renewal #Rilke