Resurrection Process
process notes on Magenta, resurrection, beauty, form, cinema
ASTROLOGY ////// WRITING & TEACHING ////// ABOUT COSMIC EDGES
Today, for the true blue paid subscribers (TY!) a long post with excerpts from Magenta, some notes on the process of writing that book, its subsequent cancelation, and varieties of resurrection.
“Contemporary society is characterized by constant and relentless moralizing. But at the same time society is becoming more and more brutal. Forms of politeness are disappearing, disregarded by the cult of authenticity. Beautiful forms of conduct are becoming ever rarer. In this respect, too, we are becoming hostile towards form. Apparently, the ascendency of morality is compatible with the barbarization of society. Morality is formless. Moral inwardness dispenses with form. One might even say: the more moralizing a society, the more impolite it is. Against this formless morality, we must defend an ethics of beautiful forms.” — Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals
“Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?” — Julia Kristeva, Black Sun
I kept thinking about resurrection, its blissful freakiness…..