tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post1357902677273332320..comments2023-10-19T09:57:32.592-07:00Comments on Sing your own lullaby: Jean B. (Polaroid by doodles)Mariana Sofferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-271218501094554172014-01-15T12:02:22.252-08:002014-01-15T12:02:22.252-08:00Interesting word play, but I don't understand ...Interesting word play, but I don't understand it. My understanding of postmodernism is that it is the masking of truisms in complex rhetoric. Chomsky talks about this, and I haven't heard any response from postmodernists.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14258454033199820622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-43014428186403461252011-03-28T14:28:05.391-07:002011-03-28T14:28:05.391-07:00All about one and so it is infiniteAll about one and so it is infiniteonline casino PayPalhttp://onlinecasinopaypal.webs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-4376837418717784542009-04-26T16:34:00.000-07:002009-04-26T16:34:00.000-07:00Great finding, it fits, as you said it, in a stran...Great finding, it fits, as you said it, in a strange way (nevertheless it fits), and it does not sunrise me cause this quote comes from Mr Foucault, who I used to read several years ago, almost at the same that I used to read Baudillard.<br />I really appreciate your contribution, it is important and enlightening to me.<br />Take careMariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-79555769955374136552009-04-25T01:08:00.000-07:002009-04-25T01:08:00.000-07:00Regarding your opening sentence of on seduction an...Regarding your opening sentence of on seduction and your end sentence on the need to speak regardless of whether one has something to say, here's a quote from Foucault's "Discourse on Language" that somehow seems to fit, in some strange way, with this discourse:<br /><br />'psychoanalysis has already shown us that speech is not merely the medium which manifests-or disassembles- desire; it is also the object of desire.' <br /><br />cheersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-22813872223433893122009-04-24T11:41:00.000-07:002009-04-24T11:41:00.000-07:00You are right, I will give my excuses.You are right, I will give my excuses.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-67387252462024713652009-04-24T10:47:00.000-07:002009-04-24T10:47:00.000-07:00you should really give credit when you use other p...you should really give credit when you use other people's images/art.imogen66https://www.blogger.com/profile/17112135451497405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-9315217949204990152009-04-24T09:12:00.000-07:002009-04-24T09:12:00.000-07:00Txs a lot jason, that is an excelent quote from JB...Txs a lot jason, that is an excelent quote from JB, I have forgotten about it. And you thoughts about it are so accurate, I would add that the future fills like a hughe depression (when you think in the terms we re talking).Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-61420950017534508262009-04-24T05:01:00.000-07:002009-04-24T05:01:00.000-07:00"We are already liberated and vaporized in the sam..."We are already liberated and vaporized in the same historical moment" - here you capsulize something i have been trying desperately to put into thousands of words. also, another great formula for this new age, courtesy of another JB: "sex x technology = the future" - who knew the result could be so boring, so deadening. amazing post, tho!Jason Gusmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12797943123500708850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-424485684437600242009-04-23T12:04:00.000-07:002009-04-23T12:04:00.000-07:00Protervo thinks "Seducing is weaking" is a great i...Protervo thinks "Seducing is weaking" is a great idea.<br />And I do think so.<br />Seduction is disarming.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-3366551925149190252009-04-23T07:35:00.000-07:002009-04-23T07:35:00.000-07:00seducir es debilitar. gran idea.seducir es debilitar. gran idea.Protervohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01363797348746346781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-803558205637255242009-04-23T01:19:00.000-07:002009-04-23T01:19:00.000-07:00Paul:
I searched it and have been reading a little...Paul:<br />I searched it and have been reading a little. Thanks for the tip.<br />I am going to dig deeper into his writting. I like how he defined art: "as an agent of social and political change.Marcuse sees the political and social impact of art in the material manifestation of a work as well as in the idea.". <br /><br />The paragraph you wrote awfully reminds me of Baudillard. Pretty curious.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-19092586973886166852009-04-23T00:30:00.000-07:002009-04-23T00:30:00.000-07:00ThePerceptionPoint:Casually fetishes draw my atten...ThePerceptionPoint:Casually fetishes draw my attention a lot, probably because other people one's seem to be so wierd, so arbitrary, so strange and imposible to comprehend.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading the text you wrote on the second paragraph Besides your analisis and inferences drawn from the text It attract me because it is like a transcript of your thread of thought.<br /><br />Thank you very much for the complimen't. I enjoy a lot your posts (or ramblingings as you call them, even dough almost every text writter rambles), although sometimes I have no clue what to tell you about , you always leave wanting to investigate more.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-48559871308300006392009-04-22T21:42:00.000-07:002009-04-22T21:42:00.000-07:00Have you read Marcuse?
"Inasmuch as art preserves,...Have you read Marcuse?<br />"Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual."Paulhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcusenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-8081127824010887362009-04-22T20:30:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:30:00.000-07:00Mariana, wow, brilliant summary of JB's similacrum...Mariana, wow, brilliant summary of JB's similacrum and the post-modern malaise of hyperreality. I read this earlier today but had to run to class. <br /><br />We can consider how the simulated experience of what is real impacts everything about about being human and being alive, how we think and feel, in fact you do discuss this to a certain extent when you described the 'fetish of the lost object.' On another tangent, I'm fascinated by fetishes and how they develop- not necessarily sexual fetishes but the process of rendering something (or someone) onto a fetish object. <br /><br />On the other hand, I've felt that <br />there is something positive that comes out of a hyperreal state of existence and that is the erasing of boundaries. Not just between the real and the reproduction of the real (that becomes the truth, as you explain) but the way in which this simulated state of existence gives rise to potentials and possibilities that the self would not necessarily have access to. Granted, the new space that these blurred boundaries creates are only simulations, but yes, they are ecstasies that we have access to, albeit intangible. Perhaps this entire state of simulacrum has arisen due to the condition not just of modern multimedia-electronic-era way of live, perhaps because life, as you point out, is riddled with alienation and repression that this void must inevitably be filled by a simulated experience of reality when we do not have access to the real object or state. <br /><br />That sounded a but sad, didn't it? Sorry, I'm rambling a bit, perhaps not even sticking to the subject. Thanks for posting this. You say that you don't write well in English but I completely disagree.<br />Your style reminds me of a woman by the name of Ann McClintock, a post-colonial theorist who deals with topics of how we became 'the society of the spectacle' and how this gave rise to fetishism and transgendered possibilities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-90528878921683501622009-04-22T16:47:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:47:00.000-07:00Amazing way to resume the idea, and thank you very...Amazing way to resume the idea, and thank you very much for the compliments.<br /><br />One thing I thought of sometimes is that before there wasn't so much bullshit, I mean bad things where bad and they used to do them anyway and not hide them. Nowadays everything is pretending. For example companies pretend they donate money to charity because they are "Care for the others" but instead they do it cause it helps them with publicity and taxes. I can think of a millon other examples that are going on nowadays.<br />I Prefer not pretending times, cause now on top of doing harm, they lie and distort the reality (as you said) bluring our capacity to understand what is going on.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-41433949282708194282009-04-22T16:11:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:11:00.000-07:00It seems as if we are living in a state of distort...It seems as if we are living in a state of distorted nirvana and our new religion is bullshitting. I like your blog Mariana, it's intelligent and thought provoking. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-1162541937532152242009-04-22T13:30:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:30:00.000-07:00That's exactely it, I know another saying but I do...That's exactely it, I know another saying but I do not like it, "There are no bad questions – only dumb ones", I guess somone who think is too cool wrote it.<br /><br />Your quote reminds me of making mistakes, being wrong it is always parts of the process (obviously the learning one is one of them).Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-74247257035517626652009-04-22T13:00:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:00:00.000-07:00one thing I wanted to say.
somebody said to me on...one thing I wanted to say.<br /><br />somebody said to me once; 'the only silly question is the one that isn't asked.'<br /><br />weredragonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-71082642064165298042009-04-22T12:49:00.000-07:002009-04-22T12:49:00.000-07:00Great reflection my friend, I know it is an awfull...Great reflection my friend, I know it is an awfull lot of informatin posted in a few lines, indeed I was thinking about puting just parts of it and either expalining or giving examples about the text.<br /><br />in life you do an effort to go somewhere (reach some goal), and at the same time you percieve life, things and event that occur arround you . I think the agenda for our lifetime is that based on things happening arround you and your objective, follow an equilibrated path.<br /><br />(I liked a lot:"we enjoy being scared to death"Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423483613129126051.post-31797005938660294922009-04-22T03:45:00.000-07:002009-04-22T03:45:00.000-07:00This is a lot to digest, Mariana. "Decipher now, b...This is a lot to digest, Mariana. "Decipher now, brain." Oh, this could take a while.<br /><br />Priorities and intentions are indeed helpful when one is wishing to stay on the straight and narrow path. Seeing the big picture means ignoring minor, excruciating details. The goal is to not have a goal. The agenda is to not have a purpose in life that ties us down like slaves. The law of least resistance can make one feel lazy. To do the easy thing is mediocre at best.<br /><br />We will always seek to mystify ourselves with confusion that comes from an 'other'. We enjoy being scared to death. Boredom sucks. We should find something to lose sleep over. Makes one want to get up in the morning.Uncle Treehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469693535302107288noreply@blogger.com