AtD, M-M, cont. Okay, I'm ready for your scornful laughs...

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 4 10:42:19 CST 2010


Learned a new phrase and lacanian concept today: Zizek on:
a hole at the center of the symbolic order

Maybe the concept applies to TRP's Shambala but below I sorta meant

what Samuel Johnson meant when he kicked a stone for Berkeley: Such Metaphysical speculations---that mater was all ideas at base---are 
only worth joking about.............



--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: AtD, M-M, cont. Okay, I'm ready for your scornful laughs...
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 11:27 AM
> Empty subject in search of objet
> petit a?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > In the spirit of TRP, quicksand for my impoverished
> imagination, but here goes..here is a take from Sesame
> Street that I will apply to the Aether and related stuff in
> early AtD @M--M experiment........That is: it is a joking
> bit akin to this:
> >
> > sesamestreet    Cookie Monster: Me had philosophical
> moment: what if there no such thing as cookies? What would
> dat make me? Dis stuff keep me up at night.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "liber enim librum aperit."
> 


      



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