tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86303155812037299152024-03-12T19:23:25.971-07:00cosmopolisfilm2To defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death. Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it is in this trap that the only chance of a catastrophe for capital remains. ...For it is summoned to answer, if it is not to lose face, to what can only be death. The system must itself commit suicide in response to the multiplied challenge of death and suicide. (Jean Baudrillard - Symbolic Exchange and Death 37)seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-82297242407937174492013-10-03T18:39:00.001-07:002013-10-03T18:39:19.948-07:00Trace(s) of love - seeing with ears, hearing with eyes<br />
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" Kids."<br />
"They are kids. Exactly. What pain do they feel that they need to take pill? Music, okay, too loud, so what. It is beautiful how they dance. But what pain do they feel too young to buy beer?"<br />
"There's pain enough for everybody now," Eric told him.<br />
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Music devoured the air around them, issuing from enormous speakers
set among the ruined murals on facing walls. He began to feel an
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stripped of seats and apint and history. Eric thought it might be the
drug as well, the novo, spreading its effect from those who took it to
those who did not. You caught what they had. First you were apart and
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were the crowd, densely assembled and dancing as one.<br />
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But he felt old, watching them dance. An era had come and gone without him. They melted into eachother so they wouldn't shrivel up as individuals. The noise was nearly unbearable, taking root in his hair and teeth. He was seeing and hearing too much. But this was his only defense against the spreading mental state. Never having touched or tasted the drug, not even having seen it, he felt a little less himself, a little more the others, down there, raving. - <i>Cosmopolis</i>, pg. 125, 126,127<br />
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In 1818, Joseph Jacotot, a professor of French literature, was begining his lecturing days in the University of Louivain, expecting those to be a calm, uneventful period in his eventful life and career which begun when he was 19 and teaching rhetoric at the University of Dijon.<br />
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The students were given a book and asked to learn the French text using the translation. Jacotot entered the experiment with low hopes but having the bilingual edition (what Jacques Rancière in his work <a href="http://craigepplin.com/RanciereSchoolmaster.pdf"><i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster</i></a> refers to as <i>the minimal link of a thing in common</i>), he thought it worth a try.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Fénelon’s didactic and utopian 24~volume novel, Télémaque (1699), recounts the peregrinations of Telemachus, accompanied by his spiritual guide, Mentor, as he attempts to find his father, Odysseus. In it, Fénelon proposes an “Art of Reigning” and invents an ideal city, Salente, whose peace-loving citizens show exemplary civic virtue. The book was extremely displeasing to Louis XIV, who saw himself in the portrait of Idomeneus. But it was much admired by Enlightenment philosophers, who proclaimed Fénelon one of their most important precursors. In terms of Jacotot’s adventure, the book could have been Télémaque or any other.<br />— TRANS."</span></span></div>
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<i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster</i> is a book about Jacotot's curious educational adventure. It is about teaching as a process not between the teacher as the master of knowledge and understanding and the student as the ignorant one, not between the intelligences of the teacher and the student locked in hierarchical opposition of higher and lower, better and worse, more and less. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"The pedagogical myth, we said, divides the world into two. More precisely, it divides intelligence into two. It says that there is an inferior intelligence and a superior one. The former registers perceptions by chance, retains them, interprets and repeats them empirically, within the closed circle of habit and need. This is the intelligence of the young child and the common man. The superior intelligence knows things by reason, proceeds by method, from the simple to the complex, from the part to the whole. It is this intelligence<br />that allows the master to transmit his knowledge by adapting it to the intellectual capacities of the student and allows him to verify that the student has satisfactorily understood what he learned. Such is the principle of explication. From this point on, for Jacotot, such will be the principle of <b>enforced stultification</b>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">" It is this word that brings a halt to the movement of reason, that destroys its confidence in itself, that distracts it by breaking the world of intelligence into two, by installing the division between the groping animal and the learned little man, between common sense and science. From the moment this slogan of duality is pronounced, all the perfecting of the ways of <i>making understood</i>, that great preoccupation of men of methods and progressives, is progress toward <i>stultification</i>. The child who recites under the threat of the rod obeys the rod and that’s all: he will apply his intelligence to something else. But the child who is explained to will devote his intelligence to the work of grieving: to understanding, that is to say, to understanding that he doesn’t understand unless he is explained to. He is no longer submitting to the rod, but rather to a hierarchical world of intelligence. For the rest, like the other child, he doesn’t have to worry: if the solution to the problem is too difficult to pursue, he will have enough intelligence to open his eyes wide. The master is vigilant and patient. He will see that the child isn’t following him; he will put him back on track by explaining<br />things again. And thus the child acquires a new intelligence, that of the master’s explications. Later he can be an explicator in turn. He possesses the equipment. But he will perfect it: he will be a man of progress."</span></span></div>
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It is about teaching as a process of emancipation and as a process in which one teaches what one doesn't know. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">" Jacotot decided to devote himself to this. He proclaimed that one could teach what one didn’t know, and that a poor and ignorant father could, if he was emancipated, conduct the education of his children, without the aid of any master explicator. And he indicated the way of that “universal teaching”— to learn something and to relate to it all the rest by this principle: all men have equal intelligence." </span>(<i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster</i>, pg.18)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">" <i>The</i> book. <i>Télémaque</i> or another one. Chance placed <i>Télémaque</i> at Jacotot’s disposal; convenience told him to keep it. <i>Télémaque</i> has been translated into many languages and is easily available in bookstores. It isn’t the greatest masterpiece of the French language; but the style is pure, the vocabulary varied, and the<br />moral severe. In it one learns mythology and geography. And behind the French “ translation,” one can hear the echo of Vergil’s Latin and Homer’s Greek. In short, it’s a classic, one of those books in which a language presents the essential of its forms and its powers. A book that is <i>a totality</i>: a center to which one can attach everything new one learns; a circle in which one can understand each of these new things, find the ways to say what one sees in it, what one thinks about it, what one makes of it.<i>"</i></span> (<i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster</i>, pg. 21)</div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">No man is an island,</span></span> </i><br />
<i>Entire of itself,<br />Every man is a piece of the continent,<br />A part of the main.<br />If a clod be washed away by the sea,<br />Europe is the less.<br />As well as if a promontory were.<br />As well as if a manor of thy friend's<br />Or of thine own were:<br />Any man's death diminishes me,<br />Because I am involved in mankind,<br />And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; <br />It tolls for thee.</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read this yesterday, Franco Berardi Bifo, lovely last chapter but it kinda killed me. Bifo does say suicide is the answer, following Baudrillard, so I guess it makes sense then.<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bGcHvJqmUT0J:www.sok.bz/web/media/video/AfterFuture.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShJ1zLyrYu6DzF_kUluLG5AxlTXKe_1dMj0ZRxFyvgvYqNN-V7DuMPZwIVmQ5SlEy8C5v6l44G_BHawxJPwmqZxe_IPdgUq2pzOuTk6_l_3petEOaydDiwUd6qhmoF4xSUBj3Im&sig=AHIEtbRuRXTJspcQkApEUZnj9feIMjWaNA" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr></wbr>viewer?a=v&q=cache:<wbr></wbr>bGcHvJqmUT0J:www.sok.bz/web/<wbr></wbr>media/video/AfterFuture.pdf+&<wbr></wbr>hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=<wbr></wbr>ADGEEShJ1zLyrYu6DzF_<wbr></wbr>kUluLG5AxlTXKe_<wbr></wbr>1dMj0ZRxFyvgvYqNN-<wbr></wbr>V7DuMPZwIVmQ5SlEy8C5v6l44G_<wbr></wbr>BHawxJPwmqZxe_IPdgUq2pzOuTk6_<wbr></wbr>l_<wbr></wbr>3petEOaydDiwUd6qhmoF4xSUBj3Im&<wbr></wbr>sig=<wbr></wbr>AHIEtbRuRXTJspcQkApEUZnj9feIMj<wbr></wbr>WaNA</a> Download PDF</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">"Only suicide has proved to be efficient in the struggle against power. And actually suicide has become decisive in the history of our time. The dark side of the multitude meets here the loneliness of death.Activist culture should avoid the danger of becoming a culture of resentment. Acknowledging the irreversibility of the catastrophic trends that capitalism has inscribed in the history of society does not mean to renounce it. On the contrary, we have today a new cultural task: to live the inevitable with a relaxed soul. To call forth a big wave of withdrawal, of massive dissociation, of</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><b><span style="color: blue;">desertion from the scene of economy, of non-participation in the fake show of politics</span><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> The crucial focus of social transformation is creative singularity. The existence of singularities is not to be conceived as a personal way to salvation, they may become a contagious force...."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"By the word singularity I mean the expression of a never before seen concatenation. The actor of this expression can be an individual, a collective but also an event. We call it singularity is this actor recombines the multiple flows traversing its field of existence following a principle that is not repetitive and referring to any pre-existing form of subjected subjectivity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>If you check the summaries parts 1-6 DeLillo discusses narrative transcendence. Foucault and Baudrillard do not believe in transcendence so this is where DeLillo parts with them. DeLillo was raised Catholic and educated by the Jesuits.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>DeLillo wanted his character Eric Packer to destroy cyber-capital in one day as the financial world has speeded up our world. He mentions Baudrillard's term <span style="font-size: large;">"implosion."</span> Packer is borrowing dumbfounding amounts of <span style="font-size: large;">YEN </span>and in fact wants all the YEN there is.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Yen speculation <a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/graph-of-yen-to-buy-1-us-dollar-money.html">HERE EXPLAINED</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>The problem of the will. Eric Packer cannot even summon the word to turn off his lights. He doesn't know what he wants. <a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/the-problem-of-will-he-didnt-know-what.html">THE WILL DISCUSSED HERE</a> by Hannah Arendt and Baudrillard.</b></span></div>
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<b>Eric has a yen. Then he wants all the yen there is. Does that much yen equal wanting, equal desiring? Packer cannot desire because desire is in a relation with lack. Desire/Lack always go together. Packer lacks nothing. He is the man who has everything in excess. </b><b>Everything. </b><b>Eric Packer is "packed." So he cannot desire nor want. Just yen. So DeLillo offers a playful pun here on yen as currency and as a weak "want."</b></div>
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<b><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/04/eric-is-shorting-yen.html">Packer is shorting the yen.</a> He wants all the yen he can borrow. Then when it goes down relative to the dollar he will pay it back at a lower rate relative to the dollar and the difference between borrowing yen and paying it back will be his profit. What goes up must come down.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">He is disappearing it! He is not losing it. He is ecstatically tossing it away with joy. HE IS DESTROYING THE MONEY CHANGERS IN THE TEMPLE OF FINANCE just as Jesus destroyed the money changers in the Temple by turning over all the tables. </span></b></div>
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When Eric Packer sees The Burning Man he thinks Vija is wrong. What has happened is that The Burning Man is of the Symbolic Order of Sacrificial Death. Vija is still thinking in the Order of Production but she is pulling at her mole as she tries to integrate The Burning man in her thinking, but then sums him up as unoriginal. So see my blog lower down of Jesus and his unoriginality, which changed the world BTW in case you hadn't noticed.<br />
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seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-169110073032569232012-08-21T18:48:00.001-07:002012-08-21T18:50:21.699-07:00The Lion In Love - Aesop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>And it was all those mediocre untalented directors who pulled your fangs Rob.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>That you traded your body thrusting, thrusting, thrusting for so they could ride on your back to the box office NOT as it turned out.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>Just as you have conspired -<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"> knowingly or not</span> - <u>with Cronenberg to defang DeLillo by ringing that fucking NYSE bell this morning.</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>Occupy do not ever forgive him for this. Do not ever forgive either one of them for this. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>THE USUAL for bending over to take it up the ass. </b></span></div>
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seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-49622799378839355152012-08-17T20:41:00.000-07:002012-08-18T02:58:47.817-07:00TimesTalk Interview with Cronenberg, Rob Pattinson and David Carr And Werner Herzog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">Please listen to his mish-mash at 44.xx when he begins to fidget and squirm trying to sound profound as his confidence begins to disintegrate. He dissembles, and Rob saves him with his strange pronunciation of Hegel as Hi-gel indicating he has never discussed Hegel in any academic classroom and doesn't know anything, where he makes a quick shift to Calvin and Hobbes, a free association of philosophical jargon here, and makes a joke then saying he doesn't know what he is talking about. Arrrrggggh. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>There is no way that even the least sophisticated person cannot know the great chasm of difference between these two men. Let us pray that Herzog will open Rob's eyes to the bullshit artist he now idolizes. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cronenberg takes Rob all around the world as his boy toy to pimp his film and revels in the attention Rob is getting for him and for his film. The cheap publicity stunts (NYSE) and half-assed interviews and still the reviews of the more major - using the term loosely - reviewers have little good to say of it. But they are not blaming Rob. Breathe a sigh of relief Rob.</b></span></div>
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seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-74805831265330525432012-08-15T23:26:00.000-07:002013-04-03T15:01:45.922-07:00Rob Pattinson Is Cronenberg's New Boy Toy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Nolan has been criticized by a number of reviewers for the way he has portrayed Batman's sexual relations and the sexuality of the women in his Batman films. In The Dark Knight Rises they have said that this has been corrected somewhat. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman is confident sexually and Bruce Wayne is displaying seductive sexual interest for the first time in Nolan's Batman series. Interesting. </span></b></div>
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<b>So I began to think about Cronenberg. His recent Cosmopolis reviewers have reported that there is a lot of sex in it that is not sexy. eXistenZ? Naked Lunch? A History of Violence? Eastern Promises? Videodrome? Dead Ringers? All of them have sex in them that is not sexy with the exception of A History Of Violence between Viggo and Bello. There is no way Cronenberg is going to tamper with what Viggo wants to do in a scene. Viggo is the dominant one in this pairing of actor and director. </b></div>
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<b>Crash has lots and lots of sex in it that I do not find sexy but pornographic, but that is the way Ballard wrote it. Cronenberg decidedly has sexual issues. He imposes his arid sexuality on his characters or he chooses material that is already that way. The exception is A History Of Violence. In Eastern Promises Cronenberg focuses his camera on the body of Viggo using the ploy for showing the viewer his gangster tattoos. It works. Definitely. Viggo is lovely.</b></div>
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<b>James Spader was super hot in Soderbergh's Sex, Lies and Videotape, and playing opposite Susan Sarandon in White Palace in the early 90's. In 1996 Spader plays Ballard in Crash for Cronenberg. Again lots of hot sex that is not hot, but is very physical and pornographic. And the camera focusesing on Spader's body. From the reviews of Cosmopolis he is repeating his sexual problems with women yet one more time. </b></div>
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<b>Too many instances to brush off now. Once again Rob Pattinson is being castrated. For other times see <a href="http://twilightirruption.blogspot.com/2011/05/rp-film-history.html">HERE</a>. His face and body once again used as pornography void of sex. In one trailer we see him asking for the stun gun, the camera on his naked upper body. Again the erotic male body.</b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: red; font-size: large;">DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">alternates between the limo (Order of Production) and the outside (Order of Seduction). It is Elise who seduces him on, away from the limo, to let the world will him. Eric Packer is following her all day without searching for her, just finding her as Destiny keeps their paths crossing. At the end is an ecstatic sexual encounter beginning in a naked body sequence being filmed. Cronenberg said in an interview that it was too over the top to be believed so not </span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQi7js1aRNG_Vr82-MUJCz5Vz4HV03l8Q21mO4DMySrKK5CNONcVpG2gwU6xCzsltqBUYiw3PiCiPvsTpaTCiDXWk2ns63qQWLA1PNjmF5ZFebi4XM9wbkbymSO8sfKUuqxwZe9HIb3c/s1600/spencer+tunick-I-20+gallerylg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQi7js1aRNG_Vr82-MUJCz5Vz4HV03l8Q21mO4DMySrKK5CNONcVpG2gwU6xCzsltqBUYiw3PiCiPvsTpaTCiDXWk2ns63qQWLA1PNjmF5ZFebi4XM9wbkbymSO8sfKUuqxwZe9HIb3c/s320/spencer+tunick-I-20+gallerylg.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiaTVHMInHg8M1X5X4dGiEFM6QiJOAwThQnaKwxoKPc5Whqg5cO8hH8mmzaP6-feB2Nljma5ETi80TatLxMp7vXUTMkUqbHISVb6OJHIh-mBSUjH6eOHIpKwMZFQqlL5yoib2O35PsDEE/s1600/363969_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiaTVHMInHg8M1X5X4dGiEFM6QiJOAwThQnaKwxoKPc5Whqg5cO8hH8mmzaP6-feB2Nljma5ETi80TatLxMp7vXUTMkUqbHISVb6OJHIh-mBSUjH6eOHIpKwMZFQqlL5yoib2O35PsDEE/s320/363969_1.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">cinematic. He uses "not cinematic" whenever he wants to get rid of something. Since </span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Spencer Tunick's</span><span style="background-color: white;"> naked body installations have been performed all over the world, it appears DeLillo has put them in his novel in the Hades scene as a movie set where naked Eric Packer lies down beside his naked wife Elise Shifrin without knowing it is she at first. (Cronenberg has said he cut it out because it was a fantasy.) Is that a fact. (She is the "woman who keeps disappearing" as Zizek will describe these film women. these Gradivas.) As they leave the naked bodies to get their clothes in some seclusion she shimmies up his body in passion and kisses him in ecstasy and "he knew he loved her" and just at the moment he knows she slithers down his naked body and away like </span><i style="background-color: white;">Gradiva.</i><span style="background-color: white;"> Or </span><i style="background-color: white;">Eurydice</i><span style="background-color: white;">. It is the woman here in the novel who has hystericized on the male body, Packer's, inverting the process. (Baudrillard The Perfect Crime; Fatal Strategies)</span></span></b></div>
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<b>“I forget who said that films are desires visualized, but for me, at least, <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">film is the visualization of the director’s desire.</span> But the director’s desire doesn’t appear in the film directly. It appears in all kinds of convoluted forms. My fear that my desire will appear in my films has always caused me to be extremely wary of making films, hasn’t it? Haven’t I made films to hide my desires instead? Trying to hide them made them appear even more vividly.”</b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">If Elise is out of it instead of DeLillo's drawing of her leading Eric Packer to transcendence, then the film falls apart and becomes just another "hard" Cronenberg film instead of "soft". Blyth has discussed the pairing of the relation fear/hatred in his book on Zen. We fear what we hate and we hate what we fear.</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCi1WboVG-32b3IVbXIIWLkG3q-gUzPcq-51puMcd4x17polqlumOd6tJCSzZlwa-M__41TVu65tKaTVh2TP0Hw6JUhizlP9USRuPjFKi-uFf94aJL5XNOGP-CTsOPipL6SsCo_LuhEw/s1600/white+palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCi1WboVG-32b3IVbXIIWLkG3q-gUzPcq-51puMcd4x17polqlumOd6tJCSzZlwa-M__41TVu65tKaTVh2TP0Hw6JUhizlP9USRuPjFKi-uFf94aJL5XNOGP-CTsOPipL6SsCo_LuhEw/s1600/white+palace.jpg" /></a><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In avoiding sensuous, ecstatic sex in his films is out of Cronenberg's personal fear of the erotic sexuality of women, and displaces the erotic by focusing his camera on the body of the male. In this way he can satisfy his urges for the male body without acting out his desires. His Lack is assuaged for awhile until he finds a new Boy Toy to parade around and pimp to sell his movies, to get him financing that he is not able to get otherwise because his films are lacking in some way that he himself cannot see.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shame on you Rob for getting sucked into this! Shame. Just. Say. No. Evidently you misread the novel yourself and/or just accepted Cronenberg's authorial position on it. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Talk about getting your heart ripped out. I will never forgive you for this. Now this is REAL BETRAYAL!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Disgusted. Boycott the opening of this movie. Wait until it hits the discount theatres. Or see on DVD at your local library.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">garnered some future financing that he is always talking about for pimping Rob Pattinson to do this. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A boy being pimped by a man. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We know his girlfans want the perpetual, infantilized boy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">David Fincher, attention David Fincher!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Please do a remake of Cosmopolis with Andrew Garfield. It is too important a novel and film to be eviscerated.</span></b><br />
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<b>If you listen to this music while you are reading this you will feel what Eric Packer says this music does for him. If you have access to a piano you can play it yourself with this fine tutorial. No previous music knowledge needed.</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>I have two private elevators now. One is programmed to play Satie's piano pieces and to move at one-quarter normal speed. This is right for Satie and this is the elevator I take when I'm in a certain, let's say, unsettled mood. Calms me, makes me whole.</b></i> (C 28-29)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Krasny youtube interviews DeLillo emphasizes that Eric Packer is not a normal Wall Street cyber financier. He reads poetry in different languages, he appreciates the art of Rothko, he listens to Satie and rap music. He has turned Satie into his very own musak musik elevator music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">DeLillo's emphasis here is to project a character who is a consumer of high avant garde culture. An aesthete perhaps. This contrasts with his Philip Dick sexual seduction dialogue with Elise. The paradox makes the dialogue very sexual indeed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am equally sure that The Cronenberg did not include Eric Packer's ride down on his own elevator listening to Satie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nancy Babich, Nietzsche, excess, limits, implosion, aphoristic writing, musical writing, discontinuous, non linear, non- descriptive, non-explaining writing, writing that is all short, choppy dialogue even more so (Baudrillard) than the choppy, start and stop in quarter inches Foucauldian grid of New York City traffic and the power/knowledge/capital grid of our world where "there is no outside".</span></div>
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<b>Cronenberg has gone for the literal by using DeLillo's exact words in his Cosmopolis dialogue. But then strangely Cronenberg eliminates Yen (Japanese currency), replacing it with Yuan (Chinese currency), destroying the Lacanian resonance with yen: a whim for something; an innocuous wanting; and when, "<span style="color: blue;">He didn't know what he wanted, then he knew, he wanted a haircut." </span>Actually this is not a want is it? Is it a yen turning into a want as he persists with his plan? And he will keep his Appointment in Samarra to get it. A yen. Packer then begins to yen</b> <b>(want?) for yen, a play on the verb and the noun.</b><br />
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Then Packer <b><span style="font-size: large;">wants</span></b> all the yen - yenning? - that there is, he wants to want, he wants to Desire, but having no Lack, cannot. He wants all the Rothkos (does he want the sudden break, the cut in his life as Rothko had?), in fact the entire chapel, a religious setting these paintings were painted for. He wants all the volts the stun gun has. <span style="color: blue;"><b>"Make me feel something I don't know." Then he wants to LOSE all Elise's heritage. </b></span><br />
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Rob has said,<span style="color: blue;"> "<b>I think he was searching for something. He wanted something.</b>" </span> Cronenberg shuts him up once again. The first time being <span style="color: blue;"><b>"....the world will die"</b></span> the resonating quote of Ayn Rand. Is this the time Cronenberg pats Rob on the head? Good boy. Does Cronenberg just want to touch Rob's hair like all his fangirls want to? Is this why Cronenberg gave him a slicked down 1950's hairdo (an armoured helmet of hair as Diane Rubenstein might say), perfectly groomed, not looking at all as if he might want, have a yen for, a haircut? What is Cronenberg thinking here?<br />
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In a literal recognition of the present economic world prominence of China over Japan, Cronenberg replaces the Japanese currency of the yen with the Chinese currency of the yuan, thus revealing his complete ignorance of the importance in our thinking about our world given us by Lacan that DeLillo has mirrored. (This is an auteur filmmaker?)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXb5GWUJfQ_vUKuJA7C3cEpT_aJGW-UEyDUHlh7Jwujolvd8h2Ylb_AfQ07GL1uPBe3crbPSwmZlUHqVgsGiy5fDAEiKLvd5bokV64P1Mz4nBbQOodDl95_tM_EvjeS7NB4mDk1vu11w/s1600/zizek+lacan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXb5GWUJfQ_vUKuJA7C3cEpT_aJGW-UEyDUHlh7Jwujolvd8h2Ylb_AfQ07GL1uPBe3crbPSwmZlUHqVgsGiy5fDAEiKLvd5bokV64P1Mz4nBbQOodDl95_tM_EvjeS7NB4mDk1vu11w/s320/zizek+lacan.jpg" width="320" /></a>Ah, but a Lacanian reading still triumphs. The word yuan in the mouth of a native English speaker does not have the same resonance as spoken by a Chinese. Yuan. Roll it in your mouth. Feel its sound. Feel all the resonance of yearning in the sound of this word, the yawning longing it draws from the native English speaking mouth. Cronenberg has concealed and revealed from himself, concealed and revealed himself to us. In wishing to dispose of yen, a very very mild and almost invisible want, he has substituted yuan, a yearning, a longing. For what Mr. Cronenberg? What are you masking with this "floating sign" to escape knowing something you don't want to know that you feel? What if we consider Zizek's terminology of <i>unknown knowns </i>at this point? Is it Death?<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"Money has lost its narrative. Money talks only to itself," says Vija Kinski.</b></span><br />
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"The New York City skyline of skyscrapers has lost its narrative," says Baudrillard in The Spirit of Terrorism. The Twin Towers of totalitarian monolithic proportions faced each other saying that although we appear to be two, we really are one. They are mirror images reflecting each other into infinity saying,<b><span style="color: blue;"> "There is no outside."</span><span style="color: #444444;"> How clairvoyant do you think DeLillo is now?</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"Money for paintings. Money for anything. I had to learn how to understand money," sahe said. "I grew up comfortably. took me awhile to think about money and actually look at it. I began to look at it. Look closely at bills and coins. I learned how it felt to make money and spend it. It felt instensely satisfying. It helped me be a person. But I don't know what money is anymore." (C 29)</b></span><br />
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<b>Didi Fancher</b> is talking about the loss of representation; the concrete feel of money. The signifier and the signified. <b>Vija Kinski</b> is talking about <b>cyber-capital, Virtual Reality Capital</b>,<span style="color: #38761d;"> <b>money as "floating sign"</b>,</span> the signified and the signifier parted forever, money floating free as <b>CODE (just air as Packer says) </b> in Virtual Reality.<br />
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<b>Benno Levin:</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"But how can you make words out of sounds? These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.</span><span style="color: blue;">....Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.</span> (C 55)</b><br />
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The loss of representation so carefully elucidated by <b>Foucault</b> in <b>The Order of Things</b> in chapter one with <span style="color: blue;"><b>Valazquez's Las Meninas</b></span>. In the painting among the royal family of Philip IV, is the painter. The painter is looking at you. The canvas he is painting you cannot see, only its back. At the far end of the painting, among the shadowy paintings on the wall, a figure midway on stairs appears to be lit by the invisible source of the light that allows you to see the royal family and the painter himself But it is not another painting, it is a mirror, "It offers us at last that enchantment of the double that until now has been denied us, not only by the distant paintings but also by the light in the foreground with its ironic canvas." (TOT 7)<br />
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I attended Leo Steinberg's seminar on Valazquez and he spent an evening on this painting. He did not mention the faraway "painting" that upon a closer look betrayed itself as a mirror. In Barcelona at the Picasso Museum there are all the studies of Las Meninas that Picasso did. I wish I could take another look.<br />
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You are in the light that is lighting the painting. You are the invisible subject Velazquez is gazing at. Foucault then discusses the royal family in this painting that is a portrait of them.<br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: x-large;">These proper names would form useful landmarks and avoid ambiguous designations; they would tell us in any case what the painter is looking at, and the majority of the characters in the picture along with him. But the relation of language to painting is an infinite relation. It is not that words are imperfect, or that, when confronted by the visual, they prove supersably inadequate. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Neither can be reduced to the other's terms; it is in vain that we say what we see; what we see never resides in what we say.( TOT 9)</span><br />
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And in this way Foucault gives us THE CUT with representation in the Dominating Discourse of painting paving the way to the modernist era with its lack of representation.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Babette Babich<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"> - what a name. Straight out of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, eh.</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: red; color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Nancy Babich BAM!</span>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nancy Babich is CODE
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">In Cosmopolis Nancy Babich is CODE for a smart gun.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Babette is Jack Gladney's wife in DeLillo's <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">White Noise.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Jack Gladney is THE international specialist in Hitler Studies.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Babette Babich is THE international specialist in Nietzsche.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nietzsche is the philosopher that Hitler pressed to his bosom. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nietzsche is the philosopher that Ayn Rand memorized and read from age 16 until her late 30's. Beyond Good and Evil was her first book in English and she underlined all her favorite passages says Barbara Branden quoting her in her book The Passion of Ayn Rand.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nancy Babich is CODE for Babette Babich. Babette Babich is CODE for the entire book. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Babette Babich is the "smart gun" who shoots soft and deadly bullets that shatter masks.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nietzsche: </span><span style="background-color: red; color: #eeeeee;">Words written in blood are not to be read but learnt by heart</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Babette Babich wrote </span><span style="background-color: red; color: #eeeeee;">Words In Blood, Like Flowers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> - Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger</span></span></b></div>
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<div class="comment-context-body" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">WORDS IN BLOOD</span><span style="color: #666666;"> - DeLillo writes a sentence or paragraph on one sheet of paper.</span></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; 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border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">He keeps doing this until he gets it exactly the way he wants it to be. </span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1e3950;">Cosmopolis was </span><span style="color: red;">WRITTEN IN BLOOD. </span></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></b></span><span class="time" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: small;">"Words written in </span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: small;">blood</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: small;"> are not to be read but to be learnt by heart" - Nietzsche</span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; 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padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Cronenberg read Cosmopolis in one sitting, pasted the dialogue into screenplay software in 6 days.</span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Shot the film in 6 weeks.</span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; 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color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">Wham bam thank you ma'am!</span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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He says they still echo in his inner ear. Rob Pattinson is following Nietzsche's urging. </span></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Cronenberg probably didn't even know Nietzsche said what he said.</span></b></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></span><span class="time" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1 day ago</span><br />
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</div>seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-23476830455003908012012-06-13T06:38:00.001-07:002012-06-13T12:50:01.111-07:00Immortal Poem - Eric Packer (un) dying- a Cosmopolis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wl0yE4tkEPM/T9iJWFSiq0I/AAAAAAAAAOU/s56aOZB84PQ/s1600/mika_antic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wl0yE4tkEPM/T9iJWFSiq0I/AAAAAAAAAOU/s56aOZB84PQ/s1600/mika_antic.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;"><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Immortal Poem</i></b> </span>by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Anti%C4%87">Miroslav Mika Antić </a><br />
I-<br />
If they tell you: I died,<br />
and you liked me,<br />
something in you as well<br />
may suddenly turn <span style="background-color: white;">grey</span>.<br />
On your lashes a mist,<br />
An <span style="background-color: white;">ashen</span> trace on your lips.<br />
Have you ever thought<br />
of what it really means to live?<br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>It was a matter of silences, </span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> not words.</span></i></b><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">p.5</span></span><br />
As snow on a warm palm<br />
the childhood fades within you.<br />
Worries...<br />
Are there any worries?<br />
Sorrows...<br />
Are there any sorrows?<br />
Up the ladder of imagination<br />
Climb bravely into the youth.<br />
That pretty but devious rainbow<br />
there awaits for you.<br />
And live!<br />
Live completely!<br />
Do not nibble on days as mice.<br />
Chew on air<br />
<b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">Race with</b><span style="background-color: #999999;"> </span>the wind and <b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">the birds</b><span style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">.</span> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> He stood a while longer, watching a single gull lift</span></i></b><br />
<i><b> </b></i><i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>and ripple in a furl of air, admiring the bird, thinking into it,</b></i><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> trying to know the bird, feeling the sturdy earnest beat</span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> of its scavenger's ravenous heart.</span></i></b> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">p.7</span></span><br />
For every eternity is brief. <br />
Suddenly: those laughing faces <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
in some mirror <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
turn to wrinkled.<br />
Suddenly: a tear lurks<br />
around some corner.<br />
Troubles arrive at fingertips.<br />
Years become more grey.<br />
Suddenly the world, while walking<br />
becomes more narrow<br />
and the laughter more quiet<br />
and quiet<br />
and askew somehow.<br />
So live, but completely!<br />
That is how I did.<br />
Ages only I have travelled<br />
for half a century.<br />
I admit it: silly at times.<br />
At times, the wrong way.<br />
But I never stood still.<br />
I went always.<br />
And went...<br />
Spin a golden thread<br />
out of your aorta<br />
and sew the cracked places<br />
through which the wonders shudder.<br />
And never imagine life<br />
as a scared goodbye<br />
but as a permanent welcome<br />
and constant begining of awakening.<br />
II-<br />
And then, for once seriously<br />
think what it means to die<br />
and where is it that man goes away.<br />
What is it that calls for him forever.<br />
Do not go to cemeteries.<br />
You will understand nothing.<br />
Cemeteries are the darkest fair<br />
and a sad theatre.<br />
Whilst playing with restlessness<br />
and with the unformed,<br />
don't you feel the need<br />
to secretly enter new<br />
layers of mind?<br />
neighboring futures?<br />
I will explain it sometimes<br />
if you find me there.<br />
You know what I'll do:<br />
I'll break your toy called pain,<br />
if you dare.<br />
I am not lying.<br />
I am inventing<br />
that which needs to exist,<br />
only you haven't unraveled it yet,<br />
because you haven't looked for it.<br />
Remember: <b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">reality is more real</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">is you add more of the unreal</b>.<br />
You will recognize me through silence.<br />
The eternal don't speak. <br />
To wise out the wisdom,<br />
cherish the listening skill.<br />
After infinite births<br />
and some petty deaths<br />
once you understand<br />
that all you breathed in<br />
is not life,<br />
really, come by,<br />
so I can touch you with<span style="background-color: #999999;"> </span><b style="background-color: #999999;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">light</span></b><br />
and turn you into a thought.<br />
The farthest of futures has its future too,<br />
which hears the call of its future inside.<br />
And no worlds are empty.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">That, which we are unaware of,</span></span> </span></b></div>
<div style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">is not inexistance,</span></span> </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: yellow; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">but the existance without us</span>.</b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> Nothing existed around him. There was only the noise in his</span></i></b><br />
<i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>head, the mind in time. When he died he would not end. The </b></i><br />
<i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>world would end.</b></i><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pg.6 </span></span><br />
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III - <br />
If they tell you: I died <br />
this is what will happen.<br />
Thousands of colorful fishes<br />
will flutter through my eye.<br />
And the earth will hide me.<br />
And the weeds will hide me.<br />
While I'll be flying high.<br />
Remember: there are no limits,<br />
only temporary limts.<br />
I will sail above you at dusk<br />
in wind slick as silk.<br />
I will unravel horizons,<br />
contoures of ages unborn<br />
and images of future<br />
through the beating of invisible wings.<br />
And as a silent pendulum<br />
swinging in the immense,<br />
I will hang upon myself<br />
as upon a <b style="background-color: #999999;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">golden</span></b> belt.<br />
Do you really think my arm,<br />
my knee<br />
or head<br />
can turn into clay,<br />
beech root or grass?<br />
That some tiny secret<br />
or fear<br />
can tomorrow become<br />
silence<br />
darkness<br />
and dust?<br />
I am really from stars, you know.<br />
<b>All made of <span style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">light</span></b><b>.</b><br />
Nothing in me will shorten or stifle<br />
I'll just return<br />
at some accidental dawn<br />
to some distant <b style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sun</b><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></b> <br />
<b>my eyes <span style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">golden</span><span style="background-color: #999999; color: yellow;">.</span></b> (...) <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>He wanted to be buried in his nuclear bomber, his Blackjack </i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A. Not </i></b><i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>buried, but cremated, but buried as well. He wanted </b></i><br />
<i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>to </b></i><span style="background-color: white;"></span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;">be </span></b></i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">solarized</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">.</span><b style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>He wanted the plane flown by remote control</i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>with his embalmed body aboard, suit tie and turban, and the </b></i><br />
<i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>bodies ofhis dead dogs, his tall silky Russian woolfhounds</span></b></i><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">reaching maximum altitude and leveling at supersonic dash </span></span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"> speed and then sent plunging into the sand, fireballed one</span></span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>and all, leaving a work of land art, scorched earth art that </span></span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>would interact with the desert.... <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">- </span></span></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pg 209.</span></span></i><br />
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Never bother to ask: <i style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></i><br />
how is one to live but:<i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></i><br />
how is one not to die<br />
after all these deaths.<i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">What did he want that was not posthumous?</span> </b></i><br />
<i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></i><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">- </span></span></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pg 209.</span></span></i><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></i><br />
If they tell you: I died, <b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></i></b><br />
worry not. In every century<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
someone mistakes me<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></i></b><br />
for tired and old.<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></i><br />
Never as many people<br />
in one single man.<br />
Never as many different<br />
in the same.(...)<br />
<b style="background-color: #666666; color: yellow;">To be humanly multiple</b> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #666666; color: yellow;">is not to be dehumanized.</b> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #666666; color: yellow;">I am divisible with everything,</b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #666666; color: yellow;">and yet indestructible. </b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: yellow;"> </span> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> But his pain interfered with his immortality. It was crucial to his</span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> distinctiveness, too vital to be bypassed and not susceptible, </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> he didn't think, to computer emulation. The things that</span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> made</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> him who he was could hardly be indentified much less </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> converted to data, the things that lived and milled in his </span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> body,</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> everywhere, random, riotous, billions of trillions, in the </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> neurons and</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> peptides, the throbbing temple vein, in the veneer </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> of his </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">libidinous intellect. So much come and gone, this is who </span></i></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> he was, the lost taste of milk </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">licked from his</span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> mother's </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">breast, </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">the </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">stuff he </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">sneezes when he sneezes, </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>this</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">is</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> him </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">and how a </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">person becomes the </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">reflection </span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>he sees </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">in </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">a </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">dusty </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">window </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">when he walks by. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> - </span></span></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pg 207.</span></span></i><br />
And all these wondrous stages<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
and the renewal of me <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
are nothing but a whirl <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
unified, <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
persistent, <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
long. (...) <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
Why then say farewell? <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
What is it that we regret? <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></i><br />
If they tell you: I died,<br />
you know -<span style="background-color: #666666;"> </span><span style="background-color: #666666; font-size: small;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>it is not what I can do</b></span></span>. <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>His hand contains the pain of his life, all of it, emotional </span></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>and other,</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> and he closes his eyes one more time. <span style="color: #666666;">This is </span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #666666;">not the end.</span> </span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">He is dead inside the crystal of his watch</span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> but still alive in original space, waiting for the shot to </span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> sound.</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">- </span></span></span></i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cosmopolis, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pg 209.</span></span></i><br />
Love is the only air <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
I inhaled. <span style="color: #999999;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span></i></b><br />
And laughter only language <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></i></b><br />
I understand in the world<span style="background-color: white;">.</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> </i></b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></i><br />
I dropped by this place<br />
to wink at you a bit.<br />
To leave behind something<br />
as a fluttery trace.<br />
Do not be sad. (...)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When he died he would not end. The world would end. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">(C p.6)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Freud is finished. </i>(</span>dead<span style="color: blue;">). <i>Einstein is next.</i></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 4ex;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 4ex;">to die) </span><b style="text-indent: 4ex;">Their worlds are dead</b><span style="color: red; text-indent: 4ex;">.</span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 4ex;">C p.6)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"It is not I who will die, it is the world that will end,</span></b>"</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> It is a favorite quote of hers her fans like so much.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-indent: 24px;"><i><b>Eric Packer</b>: <span style="color: blue;">This was the nuance of every poem, at least for him, at night, these long weeks, one breath after another, </span></i></span><span style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><i>in the rotating room at the top of the triplex.</i> </span>(C p. 5 </b>)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-indent: 24px;"><b>Gail Wynand</b> in </span><b style="font-size: 14px; text-indent: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Fountainhead </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-indent: 24px;">has his bedroom at the top of his penthouse where it is glassed all around. </span>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-indent: 24px;"><i><b>"When she entered his bedroom, she found it was not the place she had seen photographed in countless magazines. The glass cage had been demolished</b></i>.<b>(F p. 482)</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white;">Recognizing that the movement of the system itself is </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;"> irreversible</span><span style="background-color: white;">, that there's </span><b><span style="background-color: red; color: yellow;">no possible get-out within the logic of the system.</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> That logic is really global, in the sense that it has absorbed all negativities, including the humanist, universalist, resistance, etc. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Pushing to the limit means<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">acknowledging this </span><span style="background-color: red; color: yellow; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">irreversibility</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-weight: bold;"> and pushing it to the limit of its possibilities, to the point of collapse. Bringing it to saturation point, to the point where the system itself </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: blue; color: white;"> creates the accident.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> </span></span></b></i><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Thought contributes to this acceleration. It anticipates its end. This is the provocative 'commitment', but giving <b>all it's got</b> to imagining the end.</i> <b>(Baudrillard - Paroxysm p. 23)</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here DeLillo is mistaken as he and everyone else regard the 2001 dot.com crash (which did take time) as the stock market catastrophe "predicted" by Cosmopolis. My opinion, and others are either following me or changing on their own are now seeing the derivative crash as the "predicted" catastrophe on Wall Street. That weekend during the 2008 presidential election campaign.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now look. A man in flames. Behind Eric all the screens were pulsing with it. And all action was at a pause, the protesters and riot police milling about and only the cameras jostling. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did this change? </span><span style="background-color: blue; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, he thought</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <u>Kinski had been wrong. The market was not tota</u>l. It could not claim this man or assimilate his act. Not such starkness and horror. This was a thing outside its reach. (C. pp. 96-98)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: #999999; color: white; font-size: large;">Kathy Chang(e)</span></b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">was a performance artist whose outrageous public performances and leftist politics were largely ignored by the University of Pennsylvania students she performed for, until she set herself on fire. Her 1996 self-immolation prompts an inquiry into the effectiveness of public suicide as a mode of <a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DRAM_a_00070">political performance.)</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He knew he was going in. But first he had to lose more money. ...Then he went about losing the money, spreading it systematically in the smoke of rumbling markets. He did this to make certain he could not accept her offer of financial help. …..but it was necessary to resist, of course, or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">die in his soul.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...He was making a gesture of his own, a sign of ironic final binding. Let it all come down. Let them see each other pure and lorn. This was the individual’s revenge on the mythical couple.</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">….The number seemed puny....But it was all air anyway. It was air that flows from the mouth when words are spoken. It was <u>lines of code</u> that interact in simulated space.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great financiers know that money does not exist.Gamblers know that money does not exist.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jesuits know that God does not exist.- Baudrillard</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Didi Fancher - "Money for paintings. Money for anything. I had to learn how to understand money," she said. "I grew up comfortably. Took me a while to think about money and actually look at it. I began to look at it. Look closely at bills and coins. I learned how it felt to make money and spend it. It felt intensely satisfying. It helped me be a person. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>But I don't know what money is anymore." (C. p. 29)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vija Kinski - ....Because money has taken a turn. All wealth has become wealth for its own sake. There's no other kind of enormous wealth. Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> Money is talking to itself. (C. p. 77)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He watched the president of the World Bank address a chamber of tense economists. He thought the image could be crisper. Then the president of the United States spoke from his limo in English and Finnish.....</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">He knew they would figure it out eventually how he'd made it happen, one man, bereaved and tired now.(C. p. 140)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Eric Packer will end up in Hell's Kitchen where he grew up, where he goes for a haircut, where he is hunted by his assassin where Gail Wynand was when he was young and prey and where he goes when he caves in to save The Banner, betraying Roark. Eric Packer will die there and Gail Wynand will have Roark build the skyscraper with his name there.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Dagny has gone to the Wayne-Faulkland Hotel to confront Francisco as the San Sebastion Mines have been seized by the People's State of Mexico.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I came here to ask you a question</b>.</span><b> <span style="color: red;">...The San Sebastian disaster....You did it consciously, cold-bloodedly and with full intention.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">What was it I did with full intention? he said.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The entire San Sebastian swindle.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">What was my <i>full </i>intention?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">That is what I want to know.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">...Don't start telling me that you gained nothing. I know it. I know you lost fifteen million dollars of your own money. Yet it was done on purpose.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">You didn't give a damn about that Mexican government,...because you knew they'd seize those mines sooner or later. What you were after is your American stockholders.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">...That's part of the truth....It was not all I was after. ...They thought it was safe to ride on my brain, because they assumed that the goal of my journey was wealth. All their calculations rested on that premise that I wanted to make money. </span><span style="background-color: red; color: white;">What if I didn't?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">...If you didn't want to make money, what possible motive could you have had?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Any number of them. For instance, to spend it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">To spend money on a certain, total failure?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">How was I to know that those mines were a certain, total failure?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">How could you help knowing it?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Quite simply. By giving it no thought. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">...Did you intend for me to notice that if you think I did it on purpose, then you still give me credit for having a purpose?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">...didn't you enjoy the spectacle of the behavior of the People's State of Mexico in regard to the San Sebastian Mines? Did you read their government's speeches and the editorials in their newspapers? They are saying that I am an unscrupulous cheat who has defrauded them. They expected to have a successful mining company to seize. I had no right to disappoint them like that.....</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">He laughed lying flat on his back: his arms were thrown wide on the carpet, forming a cross with his body; he seemed disarmed, relaxed and young. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">It was worth whatever it cost me. I could afford the price of that show....</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">And that's not all they didn't know, he said. They're in for some more knowledge. There's that housing settlement for the workers of San Sebastian. It cost eight million dollars. Steel-frame houses, with plumbing, electricity and refrigeration. Also a school, a church, a hospital and a movie theater. A settlement built for people who had lived in hovels made of driftwood and stray tin cans. My reward for building it was to be the privilege of escaping with my skin, a special concession due to the accident of my not being a native of the People's State of Mexico. That workers' settlement was also part of their plans. A model example of progressive State Housing. Well, those steel-frame houses are mainly cardboard, with a coating of good imitation shellac. They won't stand another year. The plumbing pipes - as well as most of our mining equipment - were purchased from dealers whose main source of supply are the city dumps of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. I'd give those pipes another five months, and the electric system about six. The wonderful roads we graded up four thousand feet of rock for the People's State of Mexico, will not last beyond a couple of winters; they're cheap cement without foundation, and the bracing at the bad turns is just painted clapboard. Wait for one good mountain slide. The church, I think, will stand. They'll need it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Francisco, she whispered, did you do it on purpose?</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>...Whether I did it on purpose, he said, or through neglect, or through stupidity, don't you understand that that doesn't make any difference?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>...She looked at him blankly. What are you trying to say?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I am saying that the workers' settlement of San Sebastian cost eight million dollars,...The price paid for those cardboard houses was the price that could have bought steel structures. So was the price paid for every other item. That money went to men who grow rich by such methods. Such men do not remain rich for long. The money will go into channels which will carry it, not to the most productive, but to the most corrupt. By the standards of our time, the man who has the least to offer is the man who wins. That money will vanish in projects such as the San Sebastian Mines.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>...Is that what you're after?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Yes.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Is that what you find amusing?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Yes.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">I was thinking of your name, she said....It was a tradition of your family that a d'Anconia always left a fortune greater than the one he received. </span>(Here's the "gift" and the "counter-gift".) </b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: red; color: white;">Oh yes, my ancestors had a remarkable ability for doing the right thing at the right time - and for making the right investments. Of course, 'investment' is a relative term. It depends on what you wish to accomplish. For instance, look at San Sebastian. It cost me fifteen million dollars, but those fiftteen million wiped out forty million belonging to Taggart Transcontinental, thirty-five million belonging to stockholders such as James Taggart and Orren Boyle, and hundreds of millions which will be lost in secondary consequences. That's not a bad return on an investment, is it, Dagny.?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">She was sitting straight. Do you realize what you are saying?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Oh, fully! Shall I beat you to it and name the consequences you were going to reproach me for? First, I don't think that Taggart Transcontinental will recover from its loss on that preposterous San Sebastian Line. You think it will, but it won't. Second, the San Sebastian helped your brother, James, to destroy the Phoenix-Durango, which was about the only good railroad left anywhere. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">..Do you _ ...do you know Ellis Wyatt?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Sure. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Do you know what this might do to him?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Yes. He's the one who's going to be wiped out next. </span>(AS pp. 115- 121)</b><br />
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<b>There are more resonances for the reader to find if she wishes. After reading this does anyone dare to say that Francisco d'Anconia was a self-destructive loser who lost millions? No? I thought not. And if anyone had dared say that, Rand would have chopped her up in teeny tiny pieces. </b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Why then have all the reviewers, all the academics, Cronenberg, and all blogs on Cosmopolis said that Eric Packer is a self-destructive loser? Are there really that many people out there who have misread DeLillo's book?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Yeah. I guess so.</span></b></div>
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Difficult as it is to review a film you haven't even seen I am not to be stopped. Cronenberg has told us what is <b>NOT</b> in the film.And so has blackbeanie who saw it in Cannes. Is that so we won't be disappointed?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">OK. I. Am. Not. Disappointed.</span></b><br />
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A terrible reading of DeLillo's <b><span style="background-color: orange; color: red; font-size: large;">savage with teeth</span></b> novel.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">A fantastic one time chance from the universe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">To throttle cyber-capital</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Wrestle it to the ground</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">And finish it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">And he fucking blows it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Jean Baudrillard: THE SPIRIT OF TERRORISM</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Requiem For the Twin Towers; Hypotheses on Terrorism; The Violence of the Global</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2002 - Verso</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Baudrillard following Nietzsche:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a5a5a5; color: #fff8e5; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Capital stripped bare by Speculation itself, like the bride by her bachelors. What becomes of Capital once the veil of Profit is lifted? What becomes of Labour once the veil of Capital is lifted?</span><span style="background-color: #a5a5a5; color: #fff8e5; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">(Baudrillard - Cool Memories II 38)</span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a5a5a5; color: #fff8e5; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">But it will be Baudrillard who will go all the way with Nietzsche. Baudrillard will tell us how to end the evil of anything. Push it to the limit and beyond, worse than worse, and then it will suicide. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a5a5a5; color: cyan; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: blue;">This is what DeLillo has Eric Packer do by imploding the speculative currency market. Eric Packer wants all the yen there is.</span></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Slavoj Zizek: LESS THAN NOTHING</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>HEGEL And The Shadow of Dialectical Materialism</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2012 - Verso</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It seems as if the gap between my fascinating cyberspace persona and the miserable flesh which is "me" off-screen translates into the immediate experience of the gap between the Real of the speculative circulation of capital and the drab reality of the impoverished masses</span>.</i></span>( LTN p.245-246)</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegular, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 45px;">...Most festival screenings are met with a round of applause when a film’s credits begin to roll, but the theater was silent after </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegularItalic, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 45px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trishna</em><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegular, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 45px;">’s brutal denouement. I took this less as an indictment of the film’s quality than an indication that what had just unspooled required some serious thought and digestion, and to my mind, that’s a wonderful mood for any work of art to inspire. Winterbottom is not always an easy director to handle, and that’s one of the things that recommends him most.</span>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444;">Then the soldier awoke and looked at God and asked where he had to sign. Here, said God, pulling a paper out of the air. The soldier tried to read the contract, but it was written in some other language, not German or English or French, of that he was certain. What do I sign with? asked the soldier. With your blood, as is only proper, God answered. Immediately the soldier took out a penknife and </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">made a cut in the palm of his left hand,</span> </span></b><span style="color: #444444;">then he dipped the tip of his index finger in the blood and signed.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegular, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>This is DETERRENCE for the image of the NYSE and DETERRENCE for the image of Rob Pattinson in the wake of his Break-Up Porn with Kristen Stewart.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegular, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>I can understand Cronenberg doing this for publicity, but I cannot understand Rob Pattinson's misreading of DeLillo's Cosmopolis, to allow him to defile its message, to corrupt its meaning, just to bolster his image and his film in this difficult time for him. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: ElenaRegular, Palatino, 'Palatino MS', Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>How could they betray DeLillo like this? Now Rob, this is REAL betrayal.</b></span></span></div>
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seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-26187987007066999352012-05-28T08:42:00.002-07:002012-06-12T23:22:20.804-07:00Für Elise - a non-review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at
that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had
been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was
experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind
and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance
or choice.”</i><br />
― John Fowles, The Magus<br />
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<i>"Without everything just as it was, with nothing altered and holding
nothing alterable, nothing at all - not even the most transient,
ecstatic moment of happiness or joy - can have been. Causality works
forwards in this kind of passionate affirmation only by working backward
like the ray of sunlight Nietzsche sees shining on his life: “I looked
backwards, I looked forwards, never did I see so many and such good
things at once.” Nietzsche’s account, telling his life to himself, thus
works upon his life as a benediction. And it is this benediction which
transfigures the glance, transfiguring<br />what was into what was willed
as such, which is the meaning of what it is to will backwards,
declaring: “how could I fail to be thankful to my life?”</i> (EH
Epigraph,KSA 6, p. 263)"<br />
- in Babich, Nietzsche's Imperative as a Friend's Encomium: On Becoming the One You Are, Ethics, and Blessing <br />
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<i>"Everything in our lives has brought us to this moment".</i><br />
Benno to Eric in Cosmopolis (the book and the movie!)<br />
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Without Elise, there's no all of Eric in the movie. Without Elise, this everything Benno talks about is NOT everything, it's just what's in Eric's world. Elise is not in Eric's world, she is Gradiva, Euridice taking him out of the limo, <b style="color: red;">seducing</b> him who has it all and wants nothing but a haircut into having no choice in the end. Having no choice but to accept the irreversibility of his Destiny and not look back on destroying the circulating capital, his money, her money because of a yen. And not just to accept it, but to love it <i>seeing</i> it for what it is.<br />
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What is money to a poet, she says, <b><i style="color: red;">love the world and trace it in a line of verse</i></b>. Without Elise there's no love of the world. No Elise makes the movie as detached as Eric is in it. Cosmopolis the book is a verse. Cosmopolis the movie is not, it's a movie.<br />
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Instead of words from the book, Cronenberg says he gives an actor's face.<br />
This post is for Elise's face missing in the movie when Eric realizes he loves her and she slips away.<br />
For Elise, the face of love. The kind of love which sprungs out mysteriously in unexpected places; which enables, is not selfish, makes one do foolish things and wear turbans, which supports and understands without asking, which gives and makes one free to be a gull at dawn, anything and everything one can be. Which makes one an overman. Even if everything and anything one is, is dead in the end. <i>Precisely</i> because that which one ultimately is in the end is dead .<br />
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Amor fati, nothing altered, nothing alterable.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-19225522245101887412012-04-23T14:51:00.000-07:002012-06-02T11:09:34.587-07:00A Rat Became the Unit of Currency part 2 circling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/06/rat-became-unit-of-currency.html">A Rat Became the Unit of Currency part 1</a><br />
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He realized Elise was gone. He'd forgotten to ask where she was headed. (C 20)<br />
Elise is an apparition, like Gradiva. Coupled with apparition is disappearance. She leaves silently when he isn't paying attention. She is hiding from him. In the early morning he looked in every room. He didn't see her. Was he searching for her?<br />
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Eric: There's a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency.<br />
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Chin: Yes. That would be interesting.<br />
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Eric: Yes. That would impact the world economy.<br />
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Chin: The name alone. Better than the dong or the kwacha.<br />
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Eric: The name says everything.<br />
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Chin: Yes. The rat.<br />
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Eric: Yes. The rat closed lower today against the euro.<br />
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Chin: Yes. There is growing concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.<br />
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Eric: White rats. Think about that.<br />
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Chin: Yes. Pregnant rats.<br />
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Eric:Yes. Major sell-off of pregnant Russian rats.<br />
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Chin: Britain converts to the rat.<br />
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Eric:Yes. Joins trend to universal currency.<br />
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Chin: Yes. U.S. establishes rat standard.<br />
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Eric: Yes. Every U.S. dollar redeemable for rat.<br />
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Chin: Dead rats.<br />
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Eric: Yes. Stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace. (C 23-24)</div>seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-89541718086597235172012-04-19T20:53:00.003-07:002012-04-21T12:03:34.663-07:00.Slavoj Zizek Speaks At Occupy Wall Street<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">[...] “[They are saying] we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is already socialism — for the rich. They say we don’t respect private property. But in the 2008 financial crash-down more hard-earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They tell you we are dreamers; the true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers; we are the awakening from the dream that is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything; we are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know [inaudible] from cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice, but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath its ground. Only when it looks down and notices it he falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, ‘Hey! Look down!’</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">[inaudible] “… In 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV, film, and in novels all stories that [inaudible -- something about portraying "alternate realities or time travel"]. This is a good sign for China; it means people still dream about alternatives, so attacked and prohibited is dreaming. Here we don’t think of prohibition because [inaudible -- "history"?] has even oppressed our capacity to dream. Look at the movies that we see all the time. It’s easy to imagine the end of the world — an asteroid destroying all of life, and so on — but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent to work in East Germany from Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends, ‘Let’s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say; if it is written in red ink, it is false.’ After a month, his friends get a first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: ‘Everything is wonderful here. The stores are full of good food, movie theatres show good films from the West, apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot find is red ink.’ This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want, but what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom, ‘war on terror,’ and so on, falsifies freedom. And this is what you are doing here: You are giving all of us red ink.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“There is a danger: Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: Carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after when we will have to return to normal life. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like, ‘Oh, we were young, it was beautiful…’ Remember that our basic message is, ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives.’ A taboo is broken. We do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do <em>not</em> want, but what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want? Remember: The problem is not corruption or greed; the problem is the system which pushes you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process in the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat. They will try to make this into a harmless moral protest, a decaffeinated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of the world where to recycle Coke cans to give a couple of dollars to charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where one percent goes to Third World starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture [inaudible -- calls for "mic check"]… We can see that for a long time, we allowed our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“We are not Communists, if Communism means the system which collapsed in 1990. Remember that today those Communists are the most efficient, ruthless capitalists. In China today we have a capitalism which is even more dynamic than your American capitalism but doesn’t need democracy, which means, when you criticism capitalism, don’t allow yourselves to be blackmailed that you are ‘against democracy.’ The marriage between democracy and capitalism is over. A change is possible.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Now, what we consider today possible — just follow the media. On the one hand is technology and sexuality — everything seems to be possible. You can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by biogenetics, you can have sex with animals or whatever. But look at the field of society and economy — there, almost everything is considered impossible. You want to raise taxes a little bit for the rich, they tell you it’s impossible. We lose competitivity. You want more money for healthcare, they tell you, ‘Impossible! This means a totalitarian state.’ Is there something wrong with the world where you are promised to be immortal but they cannot spend a little more for healthcare? Maybe we have to set our priorities straight. We don’t want higher standards of living; we want better standards of living. The only sense in which we are Communists is that we care for the <em>commons</em>: the commons of nature, the commons of what is privatized by intellectual property, the commons of biogenetics. For this, and only for this, we should fight. Communism failed absolutely, but the problems of the commons are here. They are telling you we are not American here, but the conservative fundamentalists who claim they are ‘really’ Americans have to be reminded of something: What is Christianity? It’s the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? It’s an egalitarian community of believers who are linked by love for each other and who only have their own freedom and responsibility to do it. In this sense the Holy Spirit is here now, and down there on Wall Street there are millions [?] who are worshiping blasphemous idols. So all we need is patience.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“The only thing I’m afraid of is that we will someday just go home, and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case. You know that people often desire something but do not really want it. Don’t be afraid to really want what you desire.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://carlygsdrafts.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/slavoj-zizeks-speech-at-liberty-square/">rough transcript from http://carlygsdrafts.wordpress.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/slavoj-zizek-speaks-at-occupy-wall-street/">rough transcript from http://www.disinfo.com/</a></span></b><br />
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.6823945608921349" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Janet Abbey http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br /><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/#folders/0B8UrPkGtp8ZMZ1ItUkZuanlUUUdtLTdNQ3NGTlUwQQ">Cosmopolis: Riddled With Epiphanies Ours and Eric Packer’s</a></b></span></span><br />
<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vXvbqvPmDkjtvktqpIOcTksXZuvgwHUICJQzRzRVL-I/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vXvbqvPmDkjtvktqpIOcTksXZuvgwHUICJQzRzRVL-I/edit</a> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cosmopolis is riddled with epiphanies. Eric Packer is encountering surprises all day on his journey to Samarkand. Each one changes him in a singular way. But the wide awake reader is also experiencing epiphanies. DeLillo has written a novel of epiphanies in a style that is more epiphanic than the epiphanies he is writing about. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reviewers have mostly compared its structure to Joyce’s Ulysses. A Day In The Life Of. Any seriously considered novelist who writes a novel taking place in one day has their novel read through Ulysses.Ian McEwan’s Saturday is a recent one. An excellent novel BTW.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my Cosmopolis blog I have been reading Cosmopolis in over seventy different ways, including Ulysses. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point I decided that there really could be no end of reading Cosmopolis through other eyes. Reading through Lacan I realized then that DeLillo had written a novel that itself was a “floating sign”, resonating with readers in almost infinite ways of reading it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems that when you are immersed in it everything else you read vibrates with it. Your past memories and experiences are right there for you again after years and years. Proust resonates with the cork lined Prousted limo.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is a remarkable novel. It is an epiphanic novel. I have been reading it in various ways for almost a year and I don’t see an end in sight. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo has been criticized for never drawing a political hero as a major character. And they have agreed that Eric Packer is another one who just doesn’t make it either. A conspicuous consumer losing all his billions in one day. A loser who dies in the end. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is where I part company with them. My reading of Eric Packer is that he fits into the (u</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nknown knowns </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Zizek-Reading Lacan)as a visionary - (as was Ayn Rand) - who ends cyber capital in one day. By default. He has destroyed the floating capital of the global circulating market of speculation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He has driven the moneychangers from the temple. How’s that for a political hero.</span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer through Jesus. and reading Jesus through Isaiah. Jesus was not on the career path to be the Messiah. Eric Packer was not on the career path to destroy cyber capital. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death. Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it is in this trap that the only chance of a catastrophe for capital remains. ...For it is summoned to answer, if it is not to lose face, to what can only be death. The system must itself commit suicide in response to the multiplied challenge of death and suicide.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Jean Baudrillard - Symbolic Exchange and Death 37) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is the terrorist model to bring about an excess of reality, and have the system collapse beneath that excess.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Baudrillard </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Capital stripped bare by Speculation itself, like the bride by her bachelors. What becomes of Capital once the veil of Profit is lifted? What becomes of Labour once the veil of Capital is lifted? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Baudrillard - Cool Memories II 38) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contrary to the historical slogan which says that the 'emancipation of the workers will be achieved by the workers themselves', </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we have to accept that Capital will be put to death by Capital itself or (not at all)</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (CM II 38) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My idea was to end this era not over a period of weeks and months as happened, but in one day. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- DeLillo /Krasny you tube interview</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death. Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it is in this trap that the only chance of a catastrophe for capital remains. ...For it is summoned to answer, if it is not to lose face, to what can only be death. The system must itself commit suicide in response to the multiplied challenge of death and suicide.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Jean Baudrillard - Symbolic Exchange and Death 37) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">______________________________________________________________________</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposal For The DeLillo Society Symposium on DeLillo</span><br /><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/01/proposal-for-delillo-society-symposium.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/01/proposal-for-delillo-society-symposium.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My main focus is on the character of Eric Packer who is seen as a self-destructive loser who loses, gambles away, all his money in one day. I see him as realizing immediately after the conversation with Kinski in the limo, that his actions can disappear her theory. There being no outside to the demonstrators (as we are watching with OWS) they cannot accomplish any change because their opposition is necessary to the system. This is Foucault and the Foucauldian Grid of power/knowledge/capital in which all opposition is inherent in the founding Discourse. </span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not to say that resistance is not necessary because it is. Very much so.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baudrillard sees a way out in his book</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget Foucault</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and that is to push the system to extremes (Nietzsche) and it will implode. Originally he had no hope of this until 9-11, when the hijackers in action, showed how: Giving the Gift that must be returned, - the Counter-Gift - (not right away and it must be more so than the original gift - "potlatch by Maas"). This is what Packer does. He pushes the global circulating currency trading market to its extremes by borrowing - on margin of course - all the yen there is that he can get his hands on. Of course all his shadows, watchers, stalkers, etc in the currency markets are following him, as he is Eric Packer. The yen is driven to its extreme high because of the tenet of the capitalistic market place of demand and price. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The yen demand is so great that all other currencies collapse under its soaring price. (How many wheelbarrows of currency in Weimar Germany to buy a loaf of bread?) How many dollars to buy yen? So many the dollar becomes worthless as do all other currencies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have to understand.”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said, “What?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind. This is what the protest is all about. Visions of technology and wealth. The force of cyber-capital that will send people into the gutter to retch and die. What is the flaw of human rationality?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said, “What?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: #b7b7b7; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is a protest against the future. They want to hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present........</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it. …”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“How will we know when the global era officially ends?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He waited.</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When stretch limousines begin to disappear from the streets of Manhatten.... “(C. 90-91)</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A RAT BECAME THE UNIT OF CURRENCY</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It took him a moment to absorb the words and identify the line. He knew the line of course. It was out of a poem he’d been reading lately, one of the few longer poems he’d chosen to investigate, a line, half a line from the chronicle of a city under siege.</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was exhilarating, his head in the fumes, to see the struggle and ruin around him, the gassed men and women in their defiance, waving looted Nasdaq T-shirts, and to realize they’d been reading the same poetry he’s been reading.”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here Eric Packer’s epiphany begin</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He sat down long enough to take a web phone out of a slot and execute an order for ore yen. He borrowed yen in dumbfounding amounts. He wanted all the yen there was.(96-97)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this the action of a man who loses all his money in one day? How is “lose” being defined by DeLillo? Is throwing all your money away in a spontaneous gesture losing all your money? Is this gesture a loss? Or a wild wild tossing away? A personal potlatch following Maas?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is then Eric Packer sees the Burning Man. Is this a reference to the Burning Man yearly festival in the desert? Or to monks who burned themselves in protest over the Viet Nam war? Or both? Or to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathy Change?(</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">see wiki</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He thought Kinski was right when she said this was a market fantasy. There was a shadow of transaction </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Baudrillardian complicity)</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> between the demonstrators and the state. The protest was a form of systemic hygiene, purging and lubricating. It attested again, for the ten thousandth time, to the market culture’s innovative brilliance, its ability to shape itself to its own flexible ends, absorbing everything around it.</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here we have a restatement of Marcuse’s Pac-Man metaphor.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now look. A man in flames. Behind Eric all the screens were pulsing with it. And all action was at a pause, the protesters and riot police milling about and only the cameras jostling. </span><span style="background-color: red; color: yellow; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did this change? Everything, he thought.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Kinski had been wrong. The market was not total. It could not claim this man or assimilate his act. Not such starkness and horror. </span><span style="background-color: #efefef; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was a thing outside its reach</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(c 100)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe today is the day when everything happens, for better or worse, ka-boom, like that.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(c 106)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it was the threat of death at the brink of night that spoke to him most surely about some principle of fate he’d always known would come clear in time. </span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now he could begin the business of living.“</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(C 107)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The stun gun probably helped. The voltage had jellified his musculature for ten or fifteen minutes and he’d rolled about on the hotel rug, electroconvulsive and strangely elated, deprived of his faculties of reason.</span><br /><span style="background-color: cyan; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But he could think now, well enough to understand what was happening. There were currencies tumbling everywhere. Bank failures were spreading. He found the humidor and lit a cigar. Strategists could not explain the speed and depth of the fall. They opened their mouths and words came out. He knew it was the yen. His actions regarding the yen were causing storms of disorder. He was so leveraged, his firm’s portfolio large and spreading, linked crucially to the affairs of so many key institutions, all reciprocally </span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vulnerable that the whole system was in danger. </span><br /><span style="background-color: cyan; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!IMPLOSION! </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Baudrillard through Nietzsche</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He smoked and watched, feeling strong, proud, stupid and superior. ….He thought it would end in a day or two …..” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(C 116)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After seeing Elise outside the theater:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He knew he was going in. But first he had to lose more money. ...Then he went about losing the money, spreading it systematically in the smoke of rumbling markets. He did this to make certain he could not accept her offer of financial help. …..but it was necessary to resist, of course, or die in his soul....He was making a gesture of his own, a sign of ironic final binding. Let it all come down. Let them see each other pure and lorn. This was the individual’s revenge on the mythical couple. ….The number seemed puny....But it was all air anyway. It was air that flows from the mouth when words are spoken. It was lines of code that interact in simulated space.</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great financiers know that money does not exist.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jesuits know that God does not exist.- Baudrillard</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let them see each other in killing light</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (C 124)</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The modern money changers have been driven from the temple.</span><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Packer begins the day in the dialectic, desiring balance not asymmetry. The global circulating speculative market "</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rises and sets with the sun</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" - Baudrillard - and like all planets and satellites has an asymmetrical orbit. As Benno tells him asymmetry was the key.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Jesus through Isaiah, following his destiny, not the career choice of being the Messiah, his last major action of overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple, was so outrageous that he could no longer be ignored. (He pushes the limit boundaries to excess.- Nietzsche and Baudrillard) His capture and death was desired. This was the Gift to which the system could not respond.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423865/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pontious </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pilate</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Then you're a King?</span><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141642/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: It's you who say I am! I know the truth, and find that I get damned!</span><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423865/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pontious </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pilate</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: But what IS truth? Not easy to define! We both have truths! Are yours the same as mine?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since DeLillo was brought up Catholic, and has said he believes in the power of narrative transcendence - which Baudrillard and Foucault do not - DeLillo has made Kinski speak Baudrillard speak, and has made Packer throw the challenge in action to Baudrillard, who liked to think of himself as an "intellectual terrorist", and implode the currency market just because he could! Because he felt like it at the decisive moment, his moment of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kairos.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did Jesus contemplate his actions in the Temple that day? Can we consider this his decisive moment, his </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kairos, ?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Goya mediated on it for forty years with various variations on this final flamboyant action of Jesus. Refusing defense in the Garden of Gethsemane he is letting the “world will him”. Packer throws away the gun. He does not defend himself later, firing aimlessly, and does not hide behind the dumpster barrier. His assassin, the object, the fatal attractor, draws him towards his death. The bicyclist rides by, hands free and extended, the “Winged Mercury” messenger from the gods.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Packer shoots himself in the palm. The place of the stigmata of the bleeding Christ. The torture he feels in order to “feel” it. (Nietzsche - The Genealogy of Morals) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I come back to the proposition from which I started out when I was working on the object: it’s the world which thinks us, it’s the object which thinks us. (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baudrillard; Fragments 101)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can say he felt an affinity with the demonstrators that they were objects of fatal attraction, because of Zbigniew Herbert’s Report From A Besieged City’s poem (A rat became the unit of currency), and was drawn to them. Just as the Twin Towers were fatal attractors before 9-11. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think DeLillo has created a political visionary for the post modern world we are living in. A model following Nietzsche and Baudrillard. Our fast movement into simulation is dizzying. Total simulated reality becomes Virtual Reality and from that there is no escape. Baudrillard is proposing the Symbolic Order of Seduction to reverse our willing slide down the slope. DeLillo has created Eric Packer to show us one way out. Genet and Burroughs have emphasized the power and responsibility of the writer in creating reality, and here IMO is where DeLillo is.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have seen </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Margin Call</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and how that debacle was started. Interesting. And of course the 2008 derivative meltdown, which I consider the clairvoyant event intuited by DeLillo, rather than the dot com bursting bubble of early 2000, which was not as comprehensive, dizzying and total as the 2008 derivative meltdown.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For comments on this posting see: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/01/proposal-for-delillo-society-symposium.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/01/proposal-for-delillo-society-symposium.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">______________________________________________________________________</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer Through Ayn Rand : </span><a href="http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-eric-packer-through-ayn-rand.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-eric-packer-through-ayn-rand.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rob Pattinson as Eric Packer For posting and comments see: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems cited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice. This was the nuance of every poem, at least for him, at night, these long weeks, one breath after another, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the rotating room at the top of the triplex. (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C p. 5 the first page)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eric Packer’s bedroom is circular, in perpetual orbit, going round like the barber chair and his </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chair in the limo, like the circulating currency of the cyber- markets.Gail Wynand in The Fountainhead has his bedroom at the top of his penthouse where it is glassed all around. The world can wtch him fuck women. A little bit of trivia that DeLillo throws in for Ayn Rand intelligentsia?. A "floating sign"? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"When she entered his bedroom, she found it was not the place she had seen photographed in countless magazines. The glass cage had been demolished. The room built in its place was a solid vault without a single window. It was lighted and air-conditioned, but neither light nor air came from the outside.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Fountainhead</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He bypassed sleep and rounded into counterpoise, a moonless calm in which every force is balanced by another. This was the briefest of easings, a small pause in the stir of restless identities.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(C p.5-6)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dialectic is stilled, balanced, the see-saw is even, straight across. It's not charting. The line is flat. Like a brain-dead flatline on the oscilloscope. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The palest thought carried an anxious shadow.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (c p.6)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The appearance of the Double, just barely sensed, like a shadow. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Restless identities</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stirring</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Death enters the novel quietly, on the first two pages, like a shadow, with the appearance of the Double, for the appearance of the Double heralds Death.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo writes in this way: He types a paragraph on one sheet of white paper, edits it, retypes it again on another white sheet of paper, re-edits it, etc until it reads the way he wants it to read. There is always plenty of white around the paragraph. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eric Packer:</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he died he would not end. The world would end.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (C p.6)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freud is finished. (dead). Einstein is next. (to die) Their worlds are dead.(C p.6)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On reading Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the last page:</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It is not I who will die, it is the world that will end,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" Ayn Rand liked to say. It is a favorite quote of hers her fans like so much.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo is challenging Baudrillard on ending global capitalism through narrative transcendence, is he also challenging Rand and her moral defense of capital? Does DeLillo suspect her </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unknown knowns?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although Heller's book was published after Cosmopolis, it seems prescient that this quote is on the first page of Cosmopolis and the almost identical quote is on the last page of Heller's biography of Rand. DeLillo's self chosen book cover for Underworld seems also prescient in its erie image of the coming 9-11. And Cosmopolis is clairvoyant about the 2008 meltdown. And the coming 9-11, as the manuscript for Cosmopolis was almost completely finished before 9-11.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She found this amusing.</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And you bought an airplane. I’d nearly forgotten this. Soviet or ex-Soviet. A strategic bomber. Capable of knocking out a small city. Is this right?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…”But they wouldn’t let you fly it. …”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Could and did. They wouldn’t let me fly it armed.”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who wouldn’t?”</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The State Department. The Pentagon. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I feel that DeLillo's ghost is following me as I am reading Cosmopolis through Atlas Shrugged but even more through Rand herself. I am coming to believe that she is the great unacknowledged post modern philosopher her rather poorly educated disciples have always thought her to be, but not for the same reasons as they. I believe she is Nietzsche's heir, more than Foucault and Baudrillard, and taking into consideration that she disavowed Nietzsche early on, stopped writing in her journals about him so much, all his thought embedded in her mind, went underground. Until Baudrillard came along and blasted it up in my face without even knowing about her.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the Hickman event :</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So she is (Adela Rogers St. Johns) is afraid of men being too good or too bad? I think of the man who said: “Oh, that there best is so very small! Oh, that their worst is so very small! And oh, how horrid it is to be small! This is what my book is going to say. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extremist beyond all extreme is what we need!</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journals of Ayn Rand p 41-42</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...I raised a hue and cry of wrath over what among them is great and small, and that their best is still so small. And that their greatest evil too is still so small - at that I laughed.(Kaufmann:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus Spake Zarathustra p. 197 )</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does DeLillo intend to just blast her for her defense of capital? Or is DeLillo somehow divining her </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unknown knowns, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her catastrophic collision with capital via Greenspan in the 2008 meltdown. As a defender of capital on a moral foundation of self-interest, this is the flaw Greenspan told Congress he had found in his thinking.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Under questioning from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee chairman, Greenspan acknowledged that the failure of that expected self-regulation represented "a flaw in the model" he used to analyze economics. "I was going for 40 years or more on the perception that it was working well."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The flaw is Rand’s rational self-interest.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why would these financiers destroy their financial empires? Well, Mr. Greenspan, you should have known that in 1968. Rand destroyed her lucratively financial, philosophical empire of Objectivism that Nathaniel Branden had built for her, his lover, because he didn't want to fuck her anymore. She wanted to punish him, destroy him, kill him for choosing a beautiful young woman instead of an old brilliant frumpet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And OMG I believe she was following Nietzsche all this time. Taking every single premise she had and carrying it to the extreme. And every goddamn one of them from sex, to friendship, to love, to her writing, all of it, to the extreme, to excess. What is Atlas Shrugged as a novel, but a novel that is more a novel than a novel, a hyper-novel, an excessive novel, a novel that is "worse" as Nietzsche would say. All the way to Death as Canetti would say. Being more a capitalist than a capitalist. More so. Worse as Nietzsche advocates to bring something down. To destroy it. This is where Baudrillard kills Foucault in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget Foucault</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is where Rand does it in reality through Greenspan instead of advocating or writing about it. She is a major philosopher by default. She didn't know she knew.The </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unknown knowns</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zizek analyses in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Lacan. Eyes Wide Shut</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this not what Eric Packer does with his fortune?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does DeLillo know that she knew without knowing that she knew?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death. Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it is in this trap that the only chance of a catastrophe for capital remains. ...For it is summoned to answer, if it is not to lose face, to what can only be death. The system must itself commit suicide in response to the multiplied challenge of death and suicide.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Jean Baudrillard - Symbolic Exchange and Death 37)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEXGqGkMQTE&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL73B795C8541F8AB1"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo and Krasny</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you tube interview DeLillo says, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My idea was to end this era not over a period of weeks and months as happened, but in one day. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here DeLillo is talking about the stock market crash in 2001. His clairvoyance really is applicable to the derivative meltdown that did happen over a few days and which the government bailed out banks and major finance centers, allowing some to collapse. Rand would have let them all hit bottom. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what Packer does all by himself</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was there a person in 2008 poised to start the derivative slide?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">______________________________________________________________________</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For better format, images and comments: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer As Dangerous: A Dangerous Seer;Visionary;Prophet: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/06/reading-eric-packer-as-dangerous.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/06/reading-eric-packer-as-dangerous.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget Foucault! Forget Baudrillard! DeLillo Weighs In and Wins the Game!: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/forget-foucault-forget-baudrillard.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/forget-foucault-forget-baudrillard.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer As Baudrillardian Seer: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/samantha-morton-as-vija-it-was.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/samantha-morton-as-vija-it-was.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer Through Baudrillard and Jesus : </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/samantha-morton-as-vija-it-was.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/samantha-morton-as-vija-it-was.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was DeLillo Reading Baudrillard? He Won't Say Anything About Post Modernism When Asked.: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-delillo-reading-baudrillard-he-wont.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-delillo-reading-baudrillard-he-wont.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Rob Pattinson, Baudrillard and Rand Through Nietzsche: </span><a href="http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-rob-pattinson-baudrillard-and.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-rob-pattinson-baudrillard-and.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baudrillard Reading Himself - And Rand - Through Nietzsche: </span><a href="http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/baudrillard-reading-himself-and-rand.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://aynrand2.blogspot.com/2012/03/baudrillard-reading-himself-and-rand.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer As DeLillo's Political Visionary Prophet: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/reading-eric-packer-as-chaos-creating.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/reading-eric-packer-as-chaos-creating.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Money Changers In The Temple-Eric Packer Is A Currency Trader-Currency Traders Are Money Changers: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/money-changers-in-temple-eric-packer-is.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/05/money-changers-in-temple-eric-packer-is.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wall Street Demonstration Feeds Into What It Opposes - Vija Kinski: </span><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/09/httpcosmopolisfilm2.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2011/09/httpcosmopolisfilm2.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ayn Rand:A Great Post Modern Philosopher and Nietzsche's Heir: </span><a href="http://guerrillablog2.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-randa-great-post-modern-philosopher.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://guerrillablog2.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-randa-great-post-modern-philosopher.html </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; 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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8630315581203729915#editor/target=post;postID=7016269299471823585"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8630315581203729915#editor/target=post;postID=7016269299471823585</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo strlkes again!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Replies to <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByS58xpx_1O9UEZVdFFNTllyRUk/edit">Cornelius Collins</a></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whom Did DeLillo Name Benno Levin After?</span><br /><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/04/whom-did-delillo-name-benno-levin-after.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/04/whom-did-delillo-name-benno-levin-after.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading Eric Packer Through Rudolf Steiner and Kolisko</span><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8630315581203729915#editor/target=post;postID=3462851606280615598"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8630315581203729915#editor/target=post;postID=3462851606280615598</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeLillo - Krasny Cosmopolis Publication Interview</span><br /><a href="http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/04/delillo-krasny-cosmopolis-publication.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cosmopolisfilm2.blogspot.com/2012/04/delillo-krasny-cosmopolis-publication.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many more if you care to read more of them.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; 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<span style="font-size: small;">... details, ideas, themes: the idea of a kind of confluence of technology and money... cybercapital, which seemed to be dominant in a very recent period in our history. Essentially the 1990's. ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My idea was to end this era not over a period of weeks and months as happened, but in one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new bold";"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I am as fascinated now as I was when I was twenty by those great, inflexible figures who provided a sort of background music through the history of my generation and who as a joke I call our "hidden Imams"!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Benny Levy</span><span style="font-size: small;">, after his political season and his ascent to Jerusalem; </span><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Linhart</span><span style="font-size: small;">, who preceded him as the head of the </span><i style="font-size: medium;">Gauche proletarienne, </i><span style="font-size: small;">and whose daughter has just described in a novel how one fine day he simply decided to stop tal</span><i style="font-size: medium;">king;...</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new bold"; font-size: small;">From wiki on Benny Levy whose pen name was </span><span style="font-family: "courier new bold"; font-size: large;">Pierre Victor</span><span style="font-family: "courier new bold"; font-size: small;"> - nice inversion here of real and pen names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Benny Lévy</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> (aka </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Pierre Victor</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">) was a philosopher, political activist and author. A political figure of</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="May 1968 in France">May 1968 in France</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">, he was the disciple and last personal secretary of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> from 1974 to 1980. Along with him, he helped founding the French newspaper </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%C3%A9ration" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Libération">Libération</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> in 1972.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Benny Lévy is known for his unusual itinerary from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Maoism">Maoism</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Judaism">Judaism</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">, or "from Mao to Moses", which was also followed by a few other philosophers of his generation.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lévy worked with</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Sartre</span><span style="font-size: small;">, and the two men produced four books until Sartre's death. While working with Sartre, Lévy began to discover Judaism, initially through his research into the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalah</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">, which he conducted with his mentor. Their work together created a stir among the circle that surrounded Sartre, because Sartre had begun introducing new ideas and terms that evoked religious and, more specifically, Jewish concepts, such as Redemption and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Messiah">Messianism</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">. ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> Two months before his death, Sartre responded to these critics, claiming that he had indeed abandoned some of his earlier ideas.</span><sup class="Template-Fact" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from April 2008">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> In 1978, Lévy encountered Levinas, and started learning Hebrew and beginning </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Talmud">Talmudic</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> studies....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Born in Egypt, Benny Lévy grew up without experiencing Judaism as a faith. He left Egypt after the 1956 war and immigrated to Belgium then France with his family. His elder half-brother, Eddy Lévy, stayed in Egypt, converted to Islam in 1956 and changed his name to Adil Rifaat.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_L%C3%A9vy#cite_note-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>...</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Benny Lévy soon proved to be a brilliant student and completed his studies at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Normale_Sup%C3%A9rieure" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="École Normale Supérieure">École Normale Supérieure</a>, learning under such key intellectual figures as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_philosopher" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marxist philosopher">Marxist philosopher</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Althusser">Louis Althusser</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jacques Derrida">Jacques Derrida</a>, founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Deconstruction">deconstruction</a>. He entered the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_des_%C3%A9tudiants_communistes" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Union des étudiants communistes">Union des étudiants communistes</a>(UEC), a student communist group, and then at his foundation in 1966 the Maoist <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_des_jeunesses_communistes_marxistes-l%C3%A9ninistes&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Union des jeunesses communistes marxistes-léninistes (page does not exist)">Union des jeunesses communistes marxistes-léninistes</a> (UJC - ml). He became one of the main leader of this latter organization after <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Linhart&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Linhart (page does not exist)">Robert Linhart</a>. Benny Lévy was an important figure during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="May 1968 in France">May 68 Student Revolt</a>. After these events, the direction of the UJC-ml was put in minority, and founded the Maoist <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gauche_prol%C3%A9tarienne&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gauche prolétarienne (page does not exist)">Gauche prolétarienne</a> (GP, Proletarian Left). Taking the pseudonym of Pierre Victor, Benny Lévy was one of its main leaders, along with <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alain_Geismar&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Alain Geismar (page does not exist)">Alain Geismar</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I thought I would spend whatever number of years it takes to write ten thousand pages and then you would have the record, the literature of a life awake and asleep, because dreams </i></span><i style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">too, and little stabs of memory, and all the pitiful habits and concealments, and all the things around me would be included, noises in the street, but I understand for the first time, now, this minute, that all the thinking and writing in the world will not describe what I felt in the awful moment when I fired the gun and saw him fall. So what is left that's worth the telling.</i><br />
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<span class="st" style="line-height: 1.24;">The late <em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Benny Levy's</em> last book, Etre juif, is a study of Emmanuel Levinas's <b>.....</b> be correct one should say: from <em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Moses</em> to <em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Mao</em>, and from <em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Mao to Moses</em>, namely, <b>...</b></span></div>
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<span class="st" style="line-height: 1.24;"><b>And now here is the Mao reference, DeLillo's Mao II novel.</b></span><br />
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poetry. Ulysses is brought up and DeLillo says that the comparison would be
made, but he wanted the novel to take place in one day. Because of tech and
capital everything is speeded up, so everything that happens in this one day is
speeded up. He mentions implosion. Packer notices the obsoleteness of technology, the ATM machine, a
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';"><span style="color: blue;">No mention of the obsoleteness of Didi, her arms. Age, body, Death</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Hasn’t seen his
driver. Three/fourths of the way begins to notice people. Haircut at a particular place in Hell’s
Kitchen W 47<sup>th</sup> St. Journey into Eric’s life and his father’s life.
First truly human encounter. Valpariso odyssey also, theme of writers.
Concentrate on a different kind of sentence, write shorter sentences, avoid
analogies, harden sense of discipline. Underworld wanted to open up the
sentence, absorb more. A suitable style for Packer, hard edged, decisive, this
style worked for this book. Studied money, tech (?) outset ignorant then
studied. Concerned to be precise and accurate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">White noise
deja vue cause: nature of time 2 halves of brain. Time is a mystery explore)body artist – may well be that time exists
simultaneously, a question of the sake of our self protection to reformulate
nature of time (tuttle BA moves forward and backward in time)deja vue connected
with idea time exists in one continuum, able to access this. Way in which we
construct our own universe, universe itself totally different from our perception of
it, seems a fact that it exists in a way that is totally alien for humans to
survive in it. World will end –a linkage from the future to us in his discussion of time. We create the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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capitalism protest Vija discusses it as protestors are pissing on it; nature of
the future. People re protesting against the wave of the future, tech genius
will leave people behind. We pretend not to see the suffering our tech advnces are
causing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Name Benno
Levin is the pen name of character in the book. This character would use name of European anarchist,revolutionary of </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">early </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">20</span><sup style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">
century is who he is named after. (beginning of 4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Paranoia comes
out of the culture rather than my consciouness Libra makes the prevalence of
paranoia around me. A conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy in the novel
is small not massive. Do not sense it around me now, moved into internet, not
as noticeable as it used to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Paranoia
misused, the institution itself began to be weakened, moved to darker corners of
the culture and out. Nostalgia. JFK assassination. Oswald has disappeared from the
discourse.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">DeLillo and Oswald lived close 13 and 16 yrs old. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Connection to a place.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Imp of your writing Underworld, the world of New York, connected to a place – wants to know where people are when they are doing what they are doing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Oswald played hooky and went to the Bronx zoo. Odd to know they both did it. Odd that he was in this half Jesish and half Italisn neighborhood. What was he doing there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Touching
opinion connect between money and libido, occurs happenstance in novel, men with
more money, position to have more sex. Not sure there’s a drive. Sex, no touch –
body force/counterforce. Eric powerful. Sense of accelerated time moving us towards
sense of immortality. Asymmetrical prostate, popped in his head but not saying more.Think he is truly interesting and changes forcefully towards the end of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think in terms of sympathy, partial redemption but don’t like to think that
way. Eric changes. Tech an enormous force in our lives, what kind of force in
our consciousness? Does it drive us in ways we are not quite aware of – tech
exists to be applied, <b style="background-color: yellow;">tech has a kind of will, drive towards being realized in
3 D.</b> If tech feasible, it will be realized or is it the other way around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">Why should it not
be part of our fiction? Spiritual? Transcendence? Question is what kind of
transcendence? American. What force there is in tech, is it force dragging us
towards Bagdad? (Bethlehem?) Is this force driving us not to just increase. Is tech driving
us.(Object pulling us?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cold war administration. Can identify an enemy. Wear uniforms, an identifiable
enemy, we have tech to reduce its potent danger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to build a shield around us. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">fear – disparity between </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New Bold';">administration. Itself heading to increase isolationism.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: blue;">He watched a hundred gulls trail a wobbling scow downriver. They had large strong hearts. He knew this, disproportionate to body size. He'd been interested once and had mastered the teeming details of bird anatomy. Birds have hollow bones. ....He didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: blue;">He stood a while longer, watching a single gull lift and ripple in a furl of air, admiring the bird, </span><span style="background-color: blue; color: white;">thinking into it, trying to know the bird, feeling the sturdy earnest beat of its scavenger's ravenous heart</span></i></b><span style="background-color: blue; color: white;">. </span>(C p.7)<br />
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In the above quote DeLillo's language soars with the bird. As Baudrillard has said, Your writing must mirror what you are writing about. If it is a soaring bird, then, your writing must soar even more than the bird. It does.<br />
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<a href="http://sueyounghistories.com/archives/2009/04/18/eugen-and-lili-kolisko-and-homeopathy/">http://sueyounghistories.com/archives/2009/04/18/eugen-and-lili-kolisko-and-homeopathy/</a><br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0906492084/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=">Zoology for Everybody: Birds Bk. 2 Eugen Kolisko <span style="font-size: 16px; text-transform: capitalize;">[Paperback]</span></a></span></h1>
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<b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">As the story goes, when Hitler was asked who his greatest enemy was, he said, "Rudolf Steiner".</span></b></div>
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Steiner, Eugen Kolisko and Lili Kolisko were colleagues in Anthroposophy.</div>
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If you study a bird's skeleton you will notice that it is extremely light, and all the bones, especially those of the skull seem penetrated by air. (p.9)</div>
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The bones of birds are whiter and contain more calcium. They are more brittle and more dense than those of other animals. Very early they lose their content of blood and marrow ....The marrow shrinks and its place is taken by a space filled with air. ...The better a bird flies ,the more its bones are permeated with air. Life in the air makes the bones dry, brittle and filled with air instead of blood....Studying a bird's bone, we come to the conclusion that it has the qualities that other bones acquire in old age. ...A phenomenon which appears only in old age in all the other animals and in man, appears immediately in the bird. <i><span style="color: blue;">It has a senile skeleton</span>. </i>(p.10-11)</div>
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In the eye of a bird is a much greater limb-activity. Because it is so well provided with muscles and a ring of bones, it acts more like a limb than an eye. It is not only a physical apparatus to receive light, but also as an organ coordinated with the limb-system. A bird of prey (or scavenger?) looks and strikes; the activity of its eyes is followed immediately by a reaction of the wings and beak.<br />
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The birds are thus very sensitive to conditions in the atmosphere through which they fly; <span style="color: blue;">they are attuned to the activity of the winds and air currents. </span>They have an extremely well developed muscular sense, a sense of motion, a sense for their own movements and at the same time a sense of touch.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">And here I remember David Foster Wallace's essay on his own tournament tennis playing. How he won because he played with the air currents.</span><br />
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The third remarkable feature in birds is the development of the <i>breathing system. </i>Birds have huge lungs, reaching as far below as the belly. The <i>diaphragm </i>is missing. From the lungs branch off air-sacs, entering the bones and the wings....Some of those branches enter even into the feathers, so that the bird is everywhere surrounded and embedded in air. (20)<br />
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The strange phenomenon of migration can be understood if we know that they only fly according to routes having certain ether configurations. They follow the way of rivers. Much has been written concerning the study of migrating birds, but it shows the great mistake of looking for the explanation in the intellectual capacities of the birds, attributing much to their small brains. Their intelligence is spread out all over the atmosphere. We do not realize the various changes in the atmosphere, for we are not sufficiently sensitive, but the birds are. They migrate on those air currents where they sense certain ether configurations. They are in unison with the air.<br />
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Now we turn to the <i><span style="color: blue;"><b>soul-life </b></span></i> of the bird. Everyone who observes birds, remarks that they are more alert than any other animals. They need very little sleep. ...Although birds are very much awake, they are very easily distracted. They certainly lack the capacity for concentration....Creatures endowed with feathers cannot really concentrate. (23)<br />
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Conte in Duvall, <i>In <b>Cosmopolis</b> Packer possesses an almost preternatural ability to recognize the patterns in currency values that shift in nanoseconds and cyber-capital that is traded instantaneously on the <b>Nikkei</b> and <b>Nasdaq</b> markets. He assumes the hieratic role of the <b>prophet</b>.</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">He understood how much it meant to him, the roll and flip of data on a screen. He</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">studied the figural diagrams that brought organic patterns into play, birdwing and</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">chambered shell. It was shallow thinking to maintain that numbers and charts</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">were the cold compression of unruly human energies, every sort of yearning and ...</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">....midnight sweat reduced to liquid units in the financial markets. In fact data itself</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">was soulful and glowing, a dynamic aspect of the life process. This was the</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative that defined every</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">breath of the planet's living billions. Here was the heave of the biosphere. Our</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">bodies and oceans were here, knowable and whole. </span>(C 24)</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>"There's an order at some deep level," he said. "A pattern that wants to be seen."</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>"Then see it."</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>...I always have. But it's elusive in this instance. My experts have struggled and just about given up. I've been sleeping on it. There's a common surface, an affinity between market movements and the natural world."</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>"An aesthetics of interaction."</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>"Yes. But in this case I'm beginning to doubt I'll ever find it."</b></span></i><br />
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<i><b>"Doubt. What is doubt? You don't believe in doubt. You've told me this. Computer power eliminates doubt. All doubt rises from past experience. But the past is disappearing. We used to know the past but not the future. This is changing," she said. We need a new theory of time."</b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: large;">Speed and Politics - Virilio.</span></b> The new theory of time. Speed is the last World War. (C 86)</i><br />
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In 1897, Steiner left the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Weimar">Weimar</a> archives and moved to Berlin. He became part owner, chief editor, and an active contributor to the literary journal <i>Magazin für Literatur</i>, where he hoped to find a readership sympathetic to his philosophy. Many subscribers were alienated by Steiner's unpopular support of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Émile Zola">Émile Zola</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_Affair" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Dreyfus Affair">Dreyfus Affair</a><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner#cite_note-GL-21" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">[22]</a></sup> and the journal lost more subscribers when Steiner published extracts from his correspondence with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Anarchist">anarchist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Mackay" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="John Henry Mackay">John Henry Mackay</a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner#cite_note-GL-21" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">[22]</a></sup> Dissatisfaction with his editorial style eventually led to his departure from the magazine.</div>
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Rudolf Steiner's theory is spiritual, connecting all knowledge with the cosmos. Agriculture, education, music, plants, animals, an incredible array of knowledge about the world. His theories and observations were originated to provide exercises for spiritual development.</div>
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Eric Packer is using his spiritual practices to give him knowledge about cyber numbers "floating currency" for huge financial gains. Steiner never intended that.</div>
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DeLillo is making a statement against theory making that can always be turned against itself to strengthen the opposite for what it was intended. For example, <b>Virilio</b> was dismayed to find his work and theories on <b>speed </b>were being taught in military institutions around the world. For the very institutions it was intended to expose.! <b>Deleuze and Guattari 's</b> book <b>A Thousand Plateaus</b> was studied careful by an Israeli general to use against the Palestinians.</div>
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seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-89332834068953617732012-01-27T15:25:00.001-08:002012-03-23T15:09:55.926-07:00Cosmopolis LIterary Conference - DeLillo: Riddled with Epiphanies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqPYzWe4ZPw77LPpa33PceRlfLzy5T2YB_1x6c3Z9WQvBU1uA-qErajisgqXkmvlSu0-PAiiF5SUGuGuNplOGcIYLyMhFuEOCY1KPPNTOnJQpXoSbsZAqeybMTInaoHcdAjjRcdTVrr0/s1600/DelilloPosterfinal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqPYzWe4ZPw77LPpa33PceRlfLzy5T2YB_1x6c3Z9WQvBU1uA-qErajisgqXkmvlSu0-PAiiF5SUGuGuNplOGcIYLyMhFuEOCY1KPPNTOnJQpXoSbsZAqeybMTInaoHcdAjjRcdTVrr0/s640/DelilloPosterfinal.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><br />
Information for “’Riddled with Epiphanies’: DeLillo, New York”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>April 20-21, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Presented by the College of Mount Saint Vincent & the DeLillo Society<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>6301 Riverdale Avenue Riverdale (Bronx) New York 10471<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -27.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2<sup>nd</sup> International Literary Conference devoted to the work of American author, Don DeLillo<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>__________________________________________________________________________________</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>__________________________________________________________________________________ </b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Calls for Papers: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/ <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Deadline for Paper/Panel Proposals Feb. 28, 2010<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">“’Riddled with Epiphanies’: DeLillo, New York” is a conference based on conversation. Presenters’ papers will be circulated amongst the participants and summarized during the conference itself. We are looking to foster an atmosphere of intellectual play and a kind of collaborative inquiry long known to the sciences. In foregoing the customary model of twenty-minute presentations, we hope to create a more lively atmosphere which we hope will foster a fruitful dialogue about DeLillo’s work and inspire even more scholarship. Thus, we encourage fully developed work on the author as well as more tentative projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The College of Mount Saint Vincent is especially beautiful in the spring, with its rolling- hills campus and flowering trees, sitting on a broad expanse of the Hudson River. It is located in the very northwest corner of the Bronx, a short distance to DeLillo’s old neighborhood in the Bronx and very close to Manhattan and Yonkers as well. Accessible by all forms of public transportation as well as by car (right off the Henry Hudson Parkway), the Mount is a perfect venue for this event. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Festivities include a tour of “DeLillo, New York,” – Arthur Avenue to Great Jones Street – as well as a staged reading of <i>Love-Lies-Bleeding.</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For information, please contact Dr. Jacqueline Zubeck:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><u>jackie.zubeck@mountsaintvincent.edu</u> 718 405 3310</span></div></div>seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-33923079075345708132012-01-25T22:21:00.000-08:002012-08-15T21:31:34.164-07:00Cronenberg's Cosmopolis Wins MTV Movie Brawl: Robsessed Fangirls Packer An Implosion Voting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A victory in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Eric Packer style</span></span></span>. MTV voting allows multiple voting with no limits. This ensures multiple hits, increased revenues from advertisers,eh.<br />
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Certainly Dark Knight and Hunger Games have funneled multi <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">$$$$$$</span></span></b> into MTV: trailers, movie stills, all that hoopla stuff. Already these franchises have spent a fortune and the movies are not even in the theatres yet.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7aT6uWAi319ygB7FyxGKHTlw3CoBZudjFBLFUhphLeEkR5UmbVI4Ldp3F-MhwXdPQu22IUz6CAJ6sHSjFOiI_aJetgajDAk4BSQXj_5Gvhg7bxW2ukm_BsEEOKKsti2ujE4Kh47ga4wE/s1600/RobertPattinsonEricPacker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7aT6uWAi319ygB7FyxGKHTlw3CoBZudjFBLFUhphLeEkR5UmbVI4Ldp3F-MhwXdPQu22IUz6CAJ6sHSjFOiI_aJetgajDAk4BSQXj_5Gvhg7bxW2ukm_BsEEOKKsti2ujE4Kh47ga4wE/s320/RobertPattinsonEricPacker.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: cyan;">Cronenberg's Cosmopolis</span></span></b></span> has no trailer yet, and no movie stills with the exception of Caitlin Cronenberg's photo. What is the meaning of this win by the underdog, the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Seabiscuit</span></span></b> of a movie race?<br />
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A <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Baudrillardian/Nietzschean</span></b> example of an excess of voting carried beyond limits, over the edge in an excess so tumultuous that the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">voting machinery was turned on its head</span></b>, defeating its purpose, which was to garner votes for their advertising giants, create an award for them, and promote their franchises. <br />
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They got fooled big time by <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">ladies at robsessed</span></span></span></b> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">who voted day and night all weekend long for Rob Pattinson and brought Cosmopolis to victory.</span></b><br />
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This is what Eric Packer does to the yen in Cosmopolis. He buys vast amounts of yen, creating a vast demand for yen by everyone who follows him. The higher the yen goes, the lower the dollar falls.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Like gas prices. Gas doesn't go up. The dollar goes down. </span></span></b><br />
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Baudrillard through Nietzsche calls this <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">IMPLOSION</span></span></b>. The destruction of the mass marketing tool which is MTV for its advertisers to give the win to <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The LIttle Engine That Could</span></b> - <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.</span></span></b><br />
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And who imploded MTV? Women from robsessed who love Rob Pattinson. And who also hold a deep grudge against Scummit Summit/now Lionsgate for messing up <b>Twilight</b>, thus beating their next hopeful multi-billion enterprise franchise The Hunger Games.<br />
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The fangirls showed how you can beat the big machine. They voted all day and all night all weekend. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: cyan;">Nothing but love as motivation</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: cyan;">.</span></div>
seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-82505446222483974692012-01-19T23:58:00.000-08:002012-01-20T00:11:52.619-08:00Proposal For The DeLillo Society Symposium on DeLillo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><br />
<div class="gE iv gt" style="cursor: auto; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: auto;">My main focus is on the character of Eric Packer who is seen a self-destructive loser who loses, gambles away, all his money in one day. I see him as realizing immediately after the conversation with Kinski in the limo, that his actions can prove her wrong. There being no outside to the demonstrators (as we are watching with OWS) they cannot accomplish any change because their opposition is necessary to the system. This is Foucault and the Foucauldian Grid of power/knowledge/capital in which all opposition is inherent in the founding Discourse. This is not to say that resistance is not necessary because it is. Very much so.</div><div class="ii gt adP adO" id=":27" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 2;"><div id=":26"><div><br />
</div><div>Baudrillard sees a way out in his <b>Forget Foucault</b> and that is to push the system to extremes (Nietzsche) and it will implode. Originally he had no hope of this until 9-11, when the hijackers in action, showed how: Giving the <b>Gift</b> that must be returned, the C<b>ounter-gift</b> (not right away and it must be more so than the original gift - "potlatch by Maas"). This is what Packer does. He pushes the global circulating currency trading market to its extremes by borrowing - on margin of course - all the yen there is that he can get his hands on. Of course all his shadows, watchers, stalkers, etc in the currency markets are following him, as he is Eric Packer. The yen is driven to its extreme high because of the tenet of the capitalistic market place of demand and price. The yen demand is so great that all other currencies collapse under its soaring price. (How many wheelbarrows of currency in Weimar Germany to buy a loaf of bread?) How many dollars to buy yen? So many the dollar becomes worthless as do all other currencies.<br />
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The modern money changers have been driven from the temple.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Packer begins the day in the dialectic, desiring balance not asymmetry. The global circulating speculative market "rises and sets with the sun" - Baudrillard - and like all planets and satelites has an asymmetrical orbit. As Benno tells him asymmetry was the key.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Reading Jesus through Isaiah, following his destiny, not the career choice of being the messiah, his last major action of overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple, was so outrageous that he could no longer be ignored. (He pushes the limit boundaries to excess.) His capture and death was desired. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Since DeLillo was brought up Catholic, and has said he believes in the power of narrative transcendence - which Baudrillard and Foucault do not - DeLillo has made Kinski speak Baudrillardian thinking, and has made Packer throw the challenge in action to Baudrillard, who liked to think of himself as an "intellectual terrorist", and implode the currency market <b>just because he could</b>! We can say he felt an affinity with the demonstrators, because of Herbert Z's poem, and wanted to lead them, etc. but that will put us back into hermeneutics which I avoid after studying Foucault and Sontag<b> On Interpretation.</b> </div><div><br />
</div><div>I think DeLillo has created a political visionary for the post modern world we are living in. Our fast movement into simulation is dizzying. Total Simulated reality becomes Virtual Reality and from that there is no escape. Baudrillard is proposing the Order of Seduction to reverse our willing slide down the slope. DeLillo has created Eric Packer to show us one way out. Genet and Burroughs have emphasized the power and responsibility of the writer in creating reality, and here IMO is where DeLillo is.</div><div><br />
</div><div>We have seen <b>Margin Call</b> and how that debacle was started. Interesting.</div></div></div></div>seymourbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630315581203729915.post-29098407250881976782011-10-23T19:13:00.000-07:002011-10-23T19:34:36.230-07:00Reading Eric Packer Through Surfaces - Interfacing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<blockquote><i>The tower gave him strength and depth. He knew what he wanted, a haircut, but stood a while longer in the soaring noise of the street and studied the mass and scale of the tower. The one virtue of its surface was to skim and bend the river light and mime the tides of open sky. There was an aura of texture and reflection. He scanned its length and felt connected to it, sharing the surface and the environment that came into contact with the surface, from both sides. A surface separates inside from out and belongs no less to one than the other. He’d thought about surfaces in the shower once.</i></blockquote><br />
Excellent image. The surface of the buildings like an IBM punch card as Baudrillard says in his comments pre - 9/11 about the Twin Towers. This is DeLillo's or one of DeLillo's descriptive pieces of writing about the Towers via an imaginary residential tower that Packer lives in. His adjective "brutal" is another one. The manuscript of Cosmopolis was finished before 9-11, DeLillo was profoundly moved by that event as he was about the assassination of JFK, and in December or November wrote a piece in <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2001/12/0075772">Harper's 12-01</a> called <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>In The Ruins of the Future</b></span></span>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 26.6667px; font-style: italic; line-height: 63px;">Reflections on terror and loss in the shadow of September </span> about terrorism as an ongoing part of our future world.<br />
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</tbody></table>Considering surfaces, insides and outsides, and the shower (sex) resonates with the interfacing of Eric Packer's whole being with the screen, the market, the numbers twinkling by indicating the rise and fall of the yen, - yen, yearning, - wanting? - yes, by god - a haircut, that most trivial of things to decide to want since you don't know what of value you might want, because you are in such a consumer conundrum you don't know what you want. So let's want a haircut! That's an easy thing to want. No problema.<br />
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But what that wanting - and its journey - is going to lead to!<br />
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