DL & Arisugawa Juri

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In Buddhism,  Nirvana names the placeless place in which the soul or
spirit which has finally transcended and thus escaped the seemingly
endless cycle of death and rebirth goes to become one with eternal
nothingness. 

Freud called the psychic drive to become nothing again, to go back to
being nothing, "the Nirvana Principle." 

As the Thanatological force behind the Nirvana principle struggles with
Eros, the gathering force of the erotic, this Eros versus Thanatos
dichotomy or agon ultimately explains the shifting vicissitudes of
history. For Freud, the eternal agon of these two great drives produces
the various permutations of history

But Freud recognized that the victory of either Eros or Thanatos would
mean the end of human civilization; an undifferentiated totalitarian
neurotic unity would be just as deadly as total psychotic dispersion,
disintegration, or deconstruction. But when Freud looked at his world he
worried that Thanatos was gaining the upper hand over Eros; he saw the
Nirvana Principle winning out over the pleasure principle. And, as some
of our brightest revolutionaries, poets, and postmodern philosophers
continue to give their own lives, must we not ask, in their names,
whether and how the revolution is still possible? 

What if "the revolution has well and truly happened," as Baudrillard
holds, "but not in the way that we expected. Everywhere what has been
liberated has been liberated so that it can enter into a state of pure
circulation, so that it can go into orbit"? Baudrillard characterizes
the present state of affairs as "after the orgy." We live "after the
Orgy"--for Baudrillard this means that the revolution is over, that
"all the goals of liberation are already behind us." But this total
liberation has not liberated us in the positive sense of making us free
for something, but has only in the negative sense of making us free from
everything. Like Nietzsche's death of God, the revolution liberates all
signs of their referents, unmooring all appearances from any ground in
the Real, liberating all things in order to send them into
orbit, into an orbit which according to Baudrillard is increasingly the
orbit of pure circulation, the eternal circulation of substance reduced
to mere information, entering the computers in preparation for the final
and total deletion. 

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/eands/Revolution.html

Arisugawa Juri

http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/AnimaMates/juri_profile.html