Was Jorge Luis Borges a genius of literary devices or simply a cheeky charlatan of deception laughing on his way out of a serious academic discussion and into a bank to count his money? The jury is still out like a distant neutron star en route to collapse into itself readily turning into a black hole of proverbial mess - down the peculiar space-time road - but meanwhile we can enjoy his strange little stories as if through a imaginary telescope of his writing purporting to make us feel and touch the odd, the surreal, the unreal, that is, uncanny, even terrifying, almost impossible reality we are ourselves and live within as if nothing, reality which cannot be expressed or grasped conceptually per se, only experienced in flashes of brilliance of literary magic, within the realm of intense meditation or through powerful excerpts of truthful philosophy - like that of Martin Heidegger's. Regardless of the obvious but quite superficial Martin Heidegger connection, Borges is rather quite Wittgensteinian in his wit, spirit and humour and would have had good although brief laughs with the austere Austrian quaint hermit. And after the short-lived laughs most likely would have got kicked out of the private and ascetic room of the uncompromising philosopher, the kicking accompanied with some fierce German cursing and all this abuse due to some innocent, casual comment made by the Argentinian fictionist, a comment Mr. Wittgenstein found unbearably shallow and frivolous. That is life: The life of an artist and scammer, philosopher and adventurist. That is my life also. So I know the shit I'm talking about.
Interesting perspective! Both are internally related languages which we attribute external meaning to, while there's a kind of beauty in themselves. Thanks for the comment!
At first I was like " An abstract look at humans without going into the communist trojan horse of climate change? Nice, how refreshing, and then 11:55 hits and you start spouting all the communist likes like a good sausage.
Great video and great writing! I don't usually leave comments, but I do so now hoping that it will help you with the algorithm. Thank you for this amazing essay!
I think Borges is speaking to the sub conscious somehow whether he meant to or it just naturally happened as s phenomenon I dunno but his writing seems to coalesce with the readers imagination which I actually think Borges provided a structure to the imagination as having environs with tangibliilty and actuality. A place with the ability to be inhabited, experienced,explored , interacted with, communicate it's descriptions to others and most of all that can be remembered , he was writing cosmic narrations of the inner world of ones psyche as a vast universe unto itself . Borges was delineating the complexities nuances and structure of the human imagination and that structure was a labrythn
JAM is one of the greatest programmes to ever hit television. On a music level, it's phenomenal because that ambient, downtempo Warp and Ninja Tune sound appeals to me greatly. Visually stunning but outright bizarre and offensive. It's not a comedy, it's more or less surrealism, arthouse. If you like JAM, try out SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN too. Japanese animated but just as surreal or bizarre with great electronic music.
Bring in Burroughs and you got the trilogy - language is a virus . Beckets nihilism is trumped over by the sound of the pure natural biophilic . Paradox .
Thanks! How you did this within 13 minutes is beyond me. Very illuminating, thank you. Why all the mystification and misunderstanding around these men and their work?
I will never forget the feeling i had when i watched this for the first time....also under the influence of a certain herb. It blew me away and opened up my mind to a different form of art. I love it and rewatch it at least once a year. I still wonder what the people in the slow and personal shots were thinking and how their lifes went...and if someday i spot a blue ray for a reasonable price im gonna buy it.
