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Fun personal fact is that Virno's readings of both negation and time really helped me understand Deleuze, even if Virno never once mentioned him (afaik). Perhaps in part because both share a love of Simondon.

www.generation-online.org/p/fpvirno2.htm

"Whoever felt it necessary to fight for happiness understood that they should fight against capitalism, and the inverse: one could not fight successfully against capitalism if it was not in the name of a full life".

The Rosalía
Is out of its cage
Yes
YES

There is no Mamdani without a Dick Cheney who lubricates that possibility in the US.

Incredible to watch a genocide play out in real time for two straight years and then cheer as a tiny sliver of its benefactors get rental relief.

"A concern for human rights shouldn’t lead us to extol the 'joys' of the liberal capitalism of which they’re an Integral part. There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery."

—Deleuze

Village on the death star gets potentially better living conditions. Other death star villagers are either happy and/or sad. The genocides continue. It's how the conditions are paid for in the end.

"Rhythm is the milieus' answer to chaos. What chaos and rhythm have in common is the in-between — between two milieus, rhythm-chaos or the chaosmos / In this in-between, chaos becomes rhythm, not inexorably, but it has a chance to". - D&G, ATP

It's a piece of my residual humanism, which has less to do with a belief in a human nature than a belief in a human scale, here, of time. To live among rhythms in tune with the refrains and contractions that we first of all *are*... Rhythmic Communism, seizure of time.

And! Now I can say: oh yeah I remember that, it was two moons ago... 🌝

Got something that tracks the phases of the moon, and it's just such a beautiful, human way to mark time. An index of nature longer than the passage of a day but shorter than a season, and internally differentiated: full moon, waxing moon, waning moon.

Annemarie Mol - The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

Writing across two tracks, on the top and bottom halves of the pages, respectively.

I love the split columns, which makes the book feel interactive - like a choose your own adventure. The only other book I know that does something similar is Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple, which splits top and bottom, rather than left and right. Wish more books did this!

Picture of the book's typesetting, which is split into two columns of different text.

With its famous(?) two columns, side by side, the one on Hegel, the other on Genet.

Jacques Derrida - Clang/Glas

This gorgeous and wide edition of Derrida's Hegel/Genet book (Clang/Glas).

I am Australian and this is my national politics.

I'm just like Nietzsche fr (I have forgotten my umbrella)

Palestine rally, Sydney, Australia.

Letter from Palestine: "There is no after the chaos. Chaos is the air we breathe"

Also since I'm in a real Nietzsche mood that Harpers goon essay is real 'rather will nothingness than not will at all' material.

I also wanna say something at some point about how 'Theory', as it's been taken up in pop discourse, has a sharp antiphilosophical edge in just the manner above, but I'll keep this one about Nietzsche for now and pocket that for next time.

Before anyone shouts at me, yes, Klossowski did do something similar in his Vicious Circle book (re: thinking N's life and philosophy together), but Badiou's merit is in recognizing how 'antiphilosopy' has a life outside of Nietzsche too, and just how far that concept can travel.

Yet I feel that it's only by thinking together Nietzsche the man and Nietzsche the (anti?)philosopher that you can truly do honor to this absolute shooting star of philosophy and the way in which he, and it, together, made their mark on the world.

And even Deleuze, who has no time for the 'end of metaphysics' shtick, & who celebrates what is philosophical in Nietzsche as indispensable, still resolutely keeps Nietzsche 'within' philosophy, without the corresponding sense of what exceeds it in the life that Nietzsche lived.

You can measure the distance of Badiou's reading by comparing it to Heidegger's, for whom Nietzsche's philosophy was in complete continuity with 'the history of metaphysics', even if as its culmination and completion. In other words: as yet one more philosophy among others.

This is in keeping with Nietzsche's own self-understanding, insofar as he saw himself as someone who would 'break the history of mankind into two', and 'conceived [of] the philosopher as a terrifying explosive that puts the entire world in danger'.

The point is, by thinking of Nietzsche as an antiphilosopher, Nietzsche's philosophy becomes not just one more 'philosophy' among others, but an instrument whose real stakes lie outside philosophy, in the course of Nietzsche's life itself, its playing out in flesh and blood.

I think this is especially important for Nietzsche, whose bursting forth as a personality and as a living, breathing human is not just 'present in his writing', but inseparable from it, the sun-touched halo that crowns every word he writes.

Badiou puts it best when characterizing the antiphilosopher as the one who "makes their own life the theater of their ideas", who, in living, *does* what philosophy can only *say*. Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Pascal and Lacan are antiphilosophers in this regard too.

'Antiphilosophy' is probably a bit provocatively named (imo anyway), insofar as the idea isn't so much about 'being against philosophy', as opposing philosophy to the veneration of an "Act" that, in 'real life', would accomplish what philosophy, as a discourse, can't.