2.13 metres of snow fell over 3 days in the Buffalo area

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Art takes what it needs---the excess of colours, forms, materials---from the earth to produce its own excesses, sensations with a life of their own, sensation as "nonorganic life." Art, like nature itself, is always a strange coupling, the coming together or two orders, one chaotic, the other ordered, one folding and the other unfolding, one contraction and the other dilation, and it is because art is the inversion and transformation of nature's profusion that it too must participate in, and precipitate, further couplings.

--- Elizabeth Grosz, "Chaos, Territory, Art", p 9-10, as cited in "Life Beyond Biologism" by Ted Toadvine, p 264-5

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Leonard Cohen - Nevermind



Leonard Cohen - Did I Ever Love You
One of the saddest songs I've heard in a while, but then also one of the damned funniest and cheesiest.



Leonard Cohen - You Got Me Singing
Another beautiful and sad song.

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Valerie June - Wanna Be On Your Mind

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Valerie June - Workin' Woman Blues

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Can plants think?

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Entangled in the needs and concerns of the "Present" (Gegenwart), we mechanically drift through our days, never looking too far forward into the future or too far backward into the past. Consequently, we lose sight of a more primordial sense of our own temporal constitution. We forget that we are finite beings who have been arbitrarily "thrown" (geworfen) into an unfolding historical situation, as we ceaselessly "project" (entwerfen) forward into social possibilities that guide and define our identities, possibilities that culminate in death.

[...] To be inauthentic is to dwell in meaning, to be caught up in a public understanding of a familiar, meaningful world. It is "in untruth," however, precisely because it is a way of being that creates an illusion of security and permanence about our existence and is forgetful of the fundamental contingency and unsettledness that underlies it. This uniquely human kind of forgetfulness also results in a uniquely human kind of suffering, "anxiety" (Angst).

-- Kevin Aho, "Logos and the Poverty of Animals: Rethinking Heidegger's Humanism," explicating Heidegger's (I claim: anthropological) position (it also seems to me that our being thrown here is too much understood as a fact, instead of an ongoing process)

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"Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed"
-- from What names are allowed on Facebook?

Also, includes: "The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID"

In response, let us quote some Derrida, and some Bob Dylan:

"It is therefore a certain closing off---the saturating or suturing---of identity to self, and a structure still too narrowly fit to self-identification, that today gives the concept of subject its dogmatic effect." -- Derrida, "'Eating Well,' or the Calculation of the Subject," p. 273.

"I'm only Bob Dylan when I have to be Bob Dylan, most of the time I can just be myself." -- Dylan, Press Conference, 1986, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

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Leonard Cohen - Samson in New Orleans

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