It really helps one's arguments and position to NOT label one's position--it invites all kinds of stupid and thoughtless steriotypes. Just argue the bias of your position with your reasons for it-period! Fromm also valued the insight into totalitarianism of Hannah Arendt-and the writing of Lewis Mumford.
The interview would have more listens if the title included the guest's name, perhaps: Phil Ford. I would have listened to this long since. I found it only b/c I typed up JF Martel. I clicked this only because of the note below the title referencing JF; I did not recognize Ford's face. He is a voice to me not a face. Good on you for having PF. I love Weird Studies too.
Funny to hear you talk about “not being into the ‘woo-woo’ aspects of tarot but being fascinated by the art and historical context” of the tarot narrative…it’s literally another facet of the same crystalline structure that is Tarot. You can’t separate the mystical and spiritual aspects of tarot from it’s actual roots and concepts especially seeing as how it was colonized, demonized, and bastardized by religious structures
I’m reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and he says in the Epilogue “Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.” I really sat with this line, and wanted to understand it more. Which led me to Casey’s work and this podcast. Just wanted to reach out and say I appreciate your work, and looking forward to more of your content.
Embracing the Void is remarkable. Very few texts of this kind really light me up these days. But there is a fusion of suffering and lucidity behind this text that I am engaging with deeply in my work.
I don’t think a person who doesn’t care about working towards gun safety is thinking clearly, they simply have a political agenda that has convinced them that we don’t need to do anything and they aren’t thinking for themselves and that’s very sad
Sometimes for me, Tillich who I love, is difficult to understand. Thanks for this mind building, simple yet all encompassing video. God bless you both.
as for being stuck with the concept of no self, whether you're stuck or not, whereever you are, it's still no self. "quiet samadhi mind is Zen, noisey roaming mind is also Zen." You've set up a duality between having a self and not having a self. Hence the tension. you feel like you have to choose one, but your chosing makes no difference to the truth of the concept. Whether you believe in a self or not, it's still no self. Zen is knowing there is nowhere else to go. It invites you into traps to see.
Another great episode guys. I understand no-self as an no-ego too, so the proper Self can manifest. Polish scholar who translates Jung's work to my native language used a metaphor - it's like you're trying to move towards the sun knowing you can't reach it.
Excellent work as usual from you both. Really appreciated the question on polyamory/love/Badiou. Will go on thinking about that. Also any chance you can reference the details of the paper on love from Rick?
Thanks for listening. I actually don’t know the details other than it will be a chapter in a book edited by Todd McGowan and Julie Reshe. Not sure when it will come out.
I think I have had this need to know who I am (mentioned @28:25 into this video) since I was 12 (by the time I was 12yo I had been in an orphanage for 3 yrs and then a series of foster homes for the next 5). It wasn't a question so much as a quest. It took many many yrs to work it out but the resonating concept, for "me", turned out to beNagarjuna's Emptiness Teachings and Buddhisms No Self. I recently came across Nishitani's Nothingness and heard the temple bell ring again... I have come to believe that what Tsonghapa said was spot on; "Tsongkhapa’s advice is that only long-term meditative exercise is capable of ridding us of the innate sense of self: it is too wired into our psyche to be extirpated just by doing philosophy. This is indeed one of the reasons that meditative practice is so important in Buddhist traditions: it is a vehicle through which philosophy can be transformative, by allowing that philosophy to seep so deeply into our consciousness that it comes to shape our experience." from this recently published book, Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self byJay Garfield, Thanks for a great talk.
Can’t help being curious about how many of the 1000s of recently unincarcerated border crossers are taking advantage of your manners-disregarding hospitality.
Thank you guys for the super interesting discussion. It was intriguing to hear some thoughts on the ideas concerning resurrection and holy spirit in the context of the death of God theology.
are Lacanians required to dress only in black? i had a dream where I woke up from sleeping (in the dream) in the nude and looked down and realized I had a vagina that I thought looked cute but then looked away horrified. then looking back down saw that I had both a penis and vagina and woke up laughing. It's worth noting that I was just beginning my analysis and so had no understanding (or lets say no familiarity) of castration at the time.
38:15 *Loving the other thru losing thyself* "Christ one time says, _'Love thy neighbor as thyself.'_ And Hegel was a little bit like-well, wait a minute, I dont think we really love our[selves]. You can't love yourself, Hegel didn't think. So love for him is always this _going out of oneself_ and finding something in the other that causes you to lose part of yourself. If you don't feel that when you're with the person, then I don't think you're feeling love."
51:09 - As Alvaro Campos (one of the pseudonyms of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa) once said: I've lived, studied, loved, and even believed, And today there's not a beggar I don't envy just because he isn't me. I look at the tatters and sores and falsehood of each one, And I think: perhaps you never lived or studied or loved or believed (For it's possible to do all of this without having done any of it); Perhaps you've merely existed, as when a lizard has its tail cut off And the tail keeps on twitching, without the lizard.
I thought that Quique picked a great quote to start this conversation: "The embrace of Christianity radicalizes Hegel as a thinker and enables him to theorize the radicality of Christianity." I also think we need to think more about the theological implications of McGowan's emphasis that Christianity is an important inspiration for Hegel's ideas on dialectics, contradiction and love. I know Rollins is someone who is very pragmatically engaged on this level, which makes this dialogue with McGowan a particular treasure. I absolutely adore the idea of the Church of the Contradiction and what Rollins is trying to do for liturgy. I was also fascinated by David Roberts engagement with a more post-evangelical progressive Christianity, and how he articulates the dialectic between the progressive and the more confessional forms of Christianity. It seems to open up many many political paradoxes, whether its related to conservative, liberal, or maybe even communist forms of the Church. In that context, it could be quite interesting to have a dialogue of the political relation between Marxism and the theological dimension of Christianity. Finally, I totally resonate with the tendency to Christian Atheism, which is clearly Zizek's position. And at the same time, Boothby's point to focus on love as opposed to the notion of Death of God, could also be an important deeper move (even if I think Zizek's emphasis on Christian atheism is pointing towards a radical form of love for the other and loss of the self). Thanks to everyone for showing up with such great energy to this conversation, and special thanks to Quique for holding this space and framing the discussion so well!
I appreciate this podcast for it's guests and great questions asked by a host. Always need to listen to each episode minimum twice. Thank you for this fantastic content!
