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  • [Aaron Hubbard] Descartes/God/Kant (?)

    Aaron Hubbard: (…) Descartes grapples with those concepts that arise only with leisure. He questions that which he can really know, that which he can discern from the real, and concludes nothing other than that he thinks. His problems with sun on p.118 arise from the definition on the sign by its relation with other signs, ex. Sun of senses vs sun of reason, wherein the signified is modified by that which surrounds it. Second paragraph of p.110. Only through language does doubt arise, Descartes confesses this with the weakness of his mind (as in Burke) First full paragraph p.121 – ala Burke, only through language can this paranoid conception of the God Also p.55 God contains what we do not. // Kant’s Prolegomena makes a distinction between analytic + synthetic judgments. In the former, the predicate contains nothing that is not implicit in the concept of the subject. Descartes tries to prove the existence of God by analytic judgment. God is perfect, I can conceive a perfection greater than myself: God is the cause of this thought.

    Kiarina Kordela: i.e. God was always presupposed in this thought. And this is precisely Lacan’s point: since perfection (God/Other) is logically presupposed in the concept of imperfection (human/Øther) and have hence, since, as you point out, God belongs to the concept of imperfective/(Øther) i.e. to say the concept of the signifier

  • [Lindsay Gosis] individuality

    Lindsay Gosis: In both Debord and Foucault, the issue arises or lust exists, of the problematic relentless from the individual reality/ideality and the spectacle/government of individualizarism (Foucault 420). Described in terms of subject/object., the individual reality cannot act as the subject of the discussion, because the spectacle, as its own force creating itself (drive?), affects the individual reality. But considering the individual reality as the object of this conclusions also proves problematic, because when considered in terms of the spectacle, the individual reality acquires a social character which, if considered in Foucault’s terms as an individuality “shaped in a hero form and submitted to a set of very specific patterns” (422) can scarcely be considered “invidividuality” at all. So a discussion of the “spectacle” seems to necessarily omit the idea of the individual reality except to address its impossible existence within the spectacle.

    Kiarina Kordela: Precisely, and, a pfortiori, the argument about the spectacle entails that “the real individuality cannot be discussed at all but only representations of individuality (in the spectacle) can become an object of discussion. Hence, the absence of any discussion of individuality is not an omission of necessity consequence of the fact that individuality, in this line of thought, pertains to the status of the real.

  • HCST Definitions

    Definitions jotted down for the final HCST paper.

    Yong Ho Kim

    The real is illusory as long as it is confined within the borders of the Other. The real is a network of derouted desires intertwined in a stubborn desire, or drive, that guides the individual’s forces towards an arbitrary direction.

    In the real, the craving for the objet petit a is manifested within society with the form of need. When this purely theoretical element, is coupled with the desire it formalizes externally influencing the other members of society, in the form of demand. A demand is interdependent of the desire in the shape of continuous feedback, where the external demand germinates need in other individuals, and this growing with the aid of desire causes an external expression as demand. This cyclic sequence of demand-desire turns into a ritual, an entity of its own, becoming a drive.

    Hysteria, historically diagnosed as pathological, is one of the ways in which the underlying perception of the Other beneath the Real manifests physically within the individual. An individual showing psychosis, on the other hand, will assume Real is not what it appears to be, but won’t be able to reach the Real because the very beginning of the Real intersects the peripheries of the Other.

    Death drive is the most rudimentary expression of the search for the objet petit a beyond the contingent. Every event seems to have a beginning and an end, and for the human mind this termination of his working framework is a mystery object of anxiety. This seemingly endless desire, epitomized into a general motif in the arts and philosophy, is known as death drive.

    A sign is a bimodal code pointing at the same time to the signified as the object of desire and the signifier as the source of drive. The signifier initiates drive by transporting the objet petit a to the real, by giving a social edge to its meaning. A sign relates a symbol from the Other to a symbol from the real through the individual; without the individual, the sign turns meaningless.

    As primal clan-based human groups develop into more and more complex societies, a particular code of modus vivendi and attitude towards the real arises and consolidates giving an arbitrary identity to the primal society. This arbitrarity is product of pure coincidence, without practicality, and threads an interlaced net of signifieds throughout its dominion.

  • i’m still on it and don’t have a…

    i’m still on it and don’t have a clue.

  • I don't want to finish my chem lab report

    No.

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    Hmmm… I think somebody sang this before at the student center.

  • ebay

    Check out my oldie PC parts auction! Shipping/Handling is of course free if you’re a Mac student.

  • Oh dear Macalester

    I’ve been pondering on grades lately – I really need to raise em a bit if I want to go the internship path this summer. I realized that besides my intro logic class – aka the football player’s gpa booster – I haven’t gotten a single A so far. Not even A-. Expectancy is so high it’s not even funny.

    And this semester I chose easy classes, I studied hard, sometimes I even studied for specific tests, and even began drinking coffee! Dude! Last thursday, I got an espresso double! (That kept me up from midnight to 2:20pm) Somehow we need a party system in which smart kids get the most exposure to drugs and drinks – maybe reslife can help here- so that the curve becoms more relaxed.

  • [Audun Solli] spectacle

    Audun Solli: The “spectacle” is a complex term that refers to the mechanisms that the present dominant mode of productions, i.e., capitalism. The spectacle is the source of the only discourse that is used in capitalism, secular society: it’s a celebration of a choice already made about the mode of production. In other words, the spectacle essentially refer to the mechanisms, that uphold capitalism and that allege that no other way so organizing production is possible. Thus, the spectacle’s function in society is “the concrete manufacture of alienation” (#32)., i.e., by consuming spectacles, one is separated/alienated from forming or making one’s own life. // The spectacle constitutes the exercise of power, as defined by Foucault; the spectacle restricts the possible actions, that people can take. // [Very good!]

  • infuriated

    they seem to have accumulated the whole year’s spam ideas for valentine’s day. motherfuckers. suck YOUR own advertising.

  • some messages that I found tonight in my old, old messenger box

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    [Offline Message (Thu Jul 05 16:41:25 2001)]

    and…

    wet_n_wild_cause_of_u: hi i live in australia and im 17 and single
    wet_n_wild_cause_of_u: go to this and think of me as u watch [Offline Message (Sun Dec 31 23:51:37 2000)]

  • I would write such beautiful poetry. I would cry so much. I would learn what I couldn't in a hundred years. I would cry so much. (And I love to cry)

    No es que quiera que as despu leas esto y te compadezcas. A veces no sé si es mi impulso de observador o papel de esclavo sin duties. Me gustaría que fueran bromas de mujer ligera que se sienta a divertirse un rato. Que fuera objeto de estudio y carcajadas ludicrosas. Estas noches perdidas y retragantar de sueños inseguros sean producto de patologías catalogables. Demasiadas escenas sobrepuestas y una muina endomoniada a modo de medioberl. El imperio donde nunca de se pone el solemo. Cantar, caminar, imágenes invisibles atadas a mis tobillos por cadenas antediluveanos. Ahora entiendo por qué mis sustantivos en mis versos son todos en plural. Ahora veo por qué eres Acuarela. Agua. ¡Cuántas historias obsesivas son? ¿Cuántas horas sin tregua, cuta la subjetivizaci de una historia local? Y a no te entiendo, y te comprendo, porque para comprender no necesito de estadticas. Y tengo el miedo lejano de que en uno de esos futuros paralelos – de los que me encargarno intersectar con el m- masticarestas leas como vestigios files. Edades que el C-14 no puede precisar. Y pienso que soy producto de tus canciones sin dueño, que no tuve madre.

  • interesting…
    Disorder Rating
    Paranoid: Low
    Schizoid: Very High
    Schizotypal: High
    Antisocial: Moderate
    Borderline: Moderate
    Histrionic: Moderate
    Narcissistic: High
    Avoidant: High
    Dependent: Moderate
    Obsessive-Compulsive: High

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  • wouldn’t it had been fun that there was…

    wouldn’t it had been fun that there was some Y2K2 thing. Oh wait, maybe it’s called winter break.

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    Just finished writing the last paper. My semester is over. Phewww

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    I was playing with the rotating chair in the infodesk. I was just kicking the ground while holding my feet in the air, so I would turn to my left and to my left and to my left.. and so on, turning to my left forever. Then the campus center manager came in and asked me if I was mad. He was referring to my shorts, but I thought he meant the chair. Before than that though I thought I could get sick more easily by doing something else while keep turning left (I’m pretty strong to nausea). I grabbed my german listening homework, put the audio track from the HRC on play, and began solving the exercises. The stimulus proved to be efficient soon – I had to run out of the building for fresh air before throwing the three Wsten and a racimo of eggs I had stuck into my stomach hours ago.

    Morale: rotating chairs do good, and promote diversitz awareness amongst sociology majors. I should get one with my next paycheck.

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    God I love this song!

    ftp://std150.dorms7.macalester.edu/d/music/masturbating.mp3

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    I’m finally getting up to the working rythm at Mac. Man, this is incredibly demanding. I now kinda understand why do the academic programs people limit the credit registration to 18 per semester, but I still think I’ll be able to do more in junior year. Done with the ethics paper, phew! It’s a pretty interesting topic, an argument for an alternative method of thought. Chem finals scares the hell outta of me. I just need a C to pass, but it seems so hard… especially when considering I need to extensively review thermodynamics. Calculus seems hopeless – I have a test tomorrow and I think a B is impossible in that one, not even for the finals. I’m fortunate I can pass the german with a D. Haha, I’m a LOSER! LOSER! At least I’ll get the 14 credits I need to be considered full-time student, so the hell with it.

  • pitchblende of uranium

    oh my god. how many ppm of radium does a pitchblende of uranium contain?

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    Heavy snow!
    Oh yeah. Too bad it’s only one day though. It would be cool howm any miles thick of snow are these forecaster expecting us to stumble upon tomorrow afternoon. I love cold weathers. My weekend has been a waste of time – it’s been sleeping eating and playing Civ3. Damn it’s addictive. I can’t complain about failing one class or two now. Oh mu bad.