Monthly Archives: January 2015

A Baal Shem Tov Doubt re: Heavenly Communications

Posted on January 31, 2015 by zjb

[Eliezer Sobel, Baal Shem Tov in His Carriage] Jewish philosophy puts a lot of stock in revelation. It’s supposed to do all the work. But what’s the nature of that “communication”? Here’s a doubt by the Baal Shem Tov. It’s … Continue reading →

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(With a Drone) How to Shoot Auschwitz (.)(?)

Posted on January 30, 2015 by zjb

There are so many questions that hang over this little project, relating in particular to memory and to the passage of time, to imaging technologies and to post-catastrophe aesthetics. You can see the clip here, produced by the BBC. Hovering … Continue reading →

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4 Survivors Pointing (Holocaust)

Posted on January 29, 2015 by zjb
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Non Jewish Jewish Studies (Apropos to Something Aaron Hughes Said)

Posted on January 29, 2015 by zjb

Not at Syracuse University in the Department of Religion. Apropos to the point made by Aaron Hughes in The Study  of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship,  I’m delighted to report that Jewish Studies is not too Jewish. This semester I’m teaching … Continue reading →

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Spring Semester 2015 (Space, Place, Things, and Bodies)

Posted on January 28, 2015 by zjb

My goings on this semester at Syracuse University this semester. Jewish Studies and contemporary Jewish thought & philosophy can look like this: –Jewish Studies Seminar: Kabbalah and Mystical Architecture (looking at space and place in the Zohar: creation, circumcision, Tabernacle) (Scholem, … Continue reading →

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A Little Antisemitic Joke (Reading Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy)

Posted on January 27, 2015 by zjb

“Sheer idiocy to say that experimental research is Nordic-Germanic and that rational research, on the contrary is of foreign extraction! We would then have to resolve to number Newton and Leibniz among the “Jews.” Writing against science, math, calculation, Heidegger makes … Continue reading →

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Hier ist kein warum [Reading Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)]

Posted on January 27, 2015 by zjb

Professional happenstance led me to reading Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Written between 1936 and 1938, it was published posthumously in 1989, and then again in 1994 as a second edition. I’ve heard that the one to read … Continue reading →

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Black Gall (Melancolia Imaginativa)

Posted on January 26, 2015 by zjb

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I (1514) “In medieval philosophy, each individual was thought to be dominated by one of the four humors; melancholy, associated with black gall, was the least desirable of the four…An influential treatise, De occulta philosophia of Cornelius Agrippa … Continue reading →

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Effacement of the Image (North Wall of St John the Divine) (January 2015)

Posted on January 22, 2015 by zjb

More pictures from 113th Street as the north wall of St John the Divine gets covered up, obscured from view, secreted away and hidden. January 2015. Pretty soon it’s going to be all gone, except a peek here and a … Continue reading →

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Bar Kochba Bistro (Tel Aviv)

Posted on January 21, 2015 by zjb

I’m not sure, but is that stencil a picture of Hadrian at the Bar Kochbah Bistro in Tel Aviv, just south of the Cinematheque on Rechov Ha’Chashmonaim (Hasomoneans Street)?

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