Monthly Archives: February 2012

“I Am Not a Gadget”

Posted on February 9, 2012 by zjb

[[Cy Twombly, Roman Notes (1970)]] Woke up this morning with my brain all click-clack from too much computer time last night trying to fine tune Jewish Philosophy Place (JPP) and setting up links to Facebook.  All of this seems apropos … Continue reading →

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“Body without Organs”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by zjb

Eva Hesse (found at: http://frontieracademyart.com/?p=376) Is this what a “body without organs” looks like? I mental-spatial structure with no clearly articulated central, controlling organs. Art historian-critic Rosalind Krauss makes excellent use of Deleuze in her discussion of the artist Eva Hesse. … Continue reading →

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Dualism-Monism, Actual-Virtual

Posted on February 8, 2012 by zjb

  I was going over my notes for Deleuze’s Bergsonism. It was discussed on the first day of class at Gail Hamner’s Deleuze-Foucault seminar at SU, and I wanted to catch up. I realized how hard it is to get … Continue reading →

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Substance, Monism, Dualism

Posted on February 7, 2012 by zjb

http://politelyhomicidal.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/turtles-all-the-way-down/ A quick note about Deleuze’s Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, which I read through a couple of weeks ago. I found most helpful the difference that Deleuze makes between “real” (substantive) distinctions versus “modal” distinctions. As I read him, the … Continue reading →

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Israel/Palestine

Posted on February 7, 2012 by zjb

 (photo by Emil Salman, in Haaretz) I was struck immediately by the photograph. The headline of the article reads: “Israel’s last remaining abandoned Arab village, Lifta, gets reprieve as judge voids development plans” “Architects and planners view village as a … Continue reading →

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Moses Mendelssohn Artifacts

Posted on February 6, 2012 by zjb

   Currently on view at the Center for Jewish History in New York through March 31, 2012. These were my favorite things on view. To me they are the most visually interesting things on display. Just loaded with aura. They … Continue reading →

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Monads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by zjb

A group of contiguous objects nestled into or alongside each other. They index the operation of concepts with which they subsist in tandem. Whence the urge to reduce the many to one? I want to be a substance dualist.

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Shabbat (non) Observance

Posted on February 5, 2012 by zjb
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Literature and Religion: Brooklyn Bridge

Posted on February 3, 2012 by zjb

I’m also in the tank with Alfred Kazin, the great literary critic, randy man about town, and New York Jew. A selection of his journals had just been published and they sounded interesting. I first his memoir, Walker in the … Continue reading →

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Art Science Religion

Posted on February 3, 2012 by zjb

Two weeks ago, I streamed Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World. It follows our intrepid filmmaker on a walkabaout in Antarctica. No mere documentary, although, yes, it is sort of that, the movie is a complex reverie … Continue reading →

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