What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?

The Fact of Being Is Always True Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the fundament of all that is. The atmosphere is moving thickly, dark submarine green, the tempo of sea-bed’s colour, darkly illumined and populated by gods, the eternals, singing songs of Necessity and Fate. And a word carved deep on the forehead of the chief eternal stares straight at me like a cyclopic eye — That word is destiny. Tonig

Thinking of Being without Heaviness or Depth Part 1: Being and heaviness People who suffer from depression often complain of a feeling of heaviness; not just in the emotional or mental sense, but as something physical — a visceral sensation pressing on the chest or wrapping itself around the body and the legs. Some sufferers say it is like having lead weights on their legs. Among the DSM-IV criteria for atypical depression is: “Leaden paralysis (i.e. heavy, leaden feelings i

WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT. 18+ Der Aufklärer (The Enlightener) He watched her take a piss, using the online camera secreted in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated hundreds of miles away and came in less than a minute. Dark thoughts gathered round him like crows, which he batted away. Now he had complete possession of the truth, obscene and pornographic. The motto all truth must

All Things Are Possible: A Brief Biography of Lev Shestov In 1936, Jewish-Russian philosopher Lev Shestov was invited by the Histadrut to give a series of lectures in Eretz Israel. He was warmly received by audiences in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv. But Shestov and his writings are now largely forgotten. Here is his story. All Things Are Possible: A Brief Biography of Lev Shestov Nearly every life can be summed up in a few words: man was shown heaven – and thrown into th

In Praise of the Apollonian In Greek mythology, Apollo and Dionysus are both sons of Zeus. Apollo is the god of reason, light and order, while Dionysus is the god of wine, intoxication and ritual madness. Many philosophers and writers have invoked the Apollonian and Dionysian. Nietzsche, of course, employed the concept in The Birth of Tragedy. In the literary and philosophical sense, the Apollonian represents individuality and celebrates creativity through reason and logic.

Zero Agonistes “Zero” -- he of the failed harvest and wormish incarnation --, Has declared war on heaven. It is his special election. But there he sits: Half-heroic, sublimely pathetic, eternally Pregnant, revelling in Pain and difference, Plying his matrix of unbearable contradictions. A holy, unholy, (un)righteous fool, Unable to bridge across! Come now, O Zero, You great entropologist, Stop teasing the gods with your slothful excesses. You’re just an ape-like Idiot