Mixed review 5-16-12 (WHAT IS IS)

The first item of the night is: Keiser Report: Central Bank Monarchs (E287).

To big to fail lets make them bigger!! Great point Keiser.



The 2ed item of the night: Eugene Thacker talks about "nature." Is it different from the human?


 http://vimeo.com/22862986

The 3ed item of the night is: Body, Soul & Spirit - The Jesus Trip with John Crowder.

John Crowder points out that various ontologies used throughout the bible all point to one mystical truth. Ontology is the categories of being, of course being isn't something that can actually be divided into categories or in any other way, so categorization is just a learning tool, the actual reality is a mystery, and must be lived to be understood, and that's a good thing.




"The word spirit and soul are interchangeable, all throughout the Old Testament all throughout the New Testament, they are used interchangeably."


So there’s soul and spirit, how many other words do we use to denote parts of our being? Student, young, old, shy, construction worker, sleep, happy, ego, home decorator, punk, liberal, communist, Christian, maybe none of these describe you, maybe all of them, but in a way these kinds of words are just as good for describing a human being as spirit or soul. I mean spirit and soul might be interchangeable but from what I understand spirit and soul both have their roots in breath or wind, think about what part breath plays in your life, it's really part of who you are even if it isn’t the first thing you think of when someone asks who you are, and lots of other words could describe who you are as well; writer, singer, activist, basketball player, hiker, mother- the point is to think of all the things that make up who you are, and after that you could think of all the things that make up who God is. Have you ever thought about how each of Gods names really indicates an interaction that we might have with him. This is true of God in any religion but, certainly in Islam, Judaism and Christianity; Emanuel means God-With-Us, JEHOVAH-ROHI lord shepherd, Elohe Mauzi God our strength, And in Islam Elohe Mauzi means Exceedingly Compassionate, and As-Salām means the Source of Peace and Safety, whatever you think of these religions the point is that every one of these names denotes an action or interaction, and that even in these so called "transcendental" religions you can't get past that, the imminence of interaction is the place where each name is defined. Now there are names for God that denote pure mystery or being beyond experience, these sacred names are kind of like openings in experience that make shore we don't think that God is limited by our experience. We are limited by our experience even if that experience is intuitional; God on the other hand is not.





The 4the item of the night is: the wikipedia permaculture article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

AND the Last item of the night is: an excerpt from guy debord society spectacle.

3. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.

If history perceived its organs... The body of memory

"The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.^"

I found these words on the frankfurd school Wikipedia page. They originally came from the fingers of frankfurt school theorist Max Horkheimer. This truly is a remarkable paragraph, it presents to us two ways that the facts are socially performed. First facts are preformed as the historical character of objects perceived and second their preformed as the historical character of perceiving organs. Both objects and perceiving organs have history. Wait!!?! Perceiving organs have history... Is there really a history of eyes, ears, mouths, noses?

Well yes. Of cures! And, in a sense all history is the history of these organs because there would be no history with out the recording of events preserved through these organs, but what is special about the history of perceiving organs if all history is the history of perceiving organs? I suppose that the history of the perceiving organs would differ from other history in that it would stress the changes made in the perceiving organs over time, where as other histories would stress events as they pass over time. But what changes have been made to the perceiving organs? Well! the first thing that comes to mind is evolutionary changes, but I think that there also must be other changes to the perception organs that are not properly speaking evolutionary changes. These changes would be like the way eyes adjust to light.

The "perceiving organs" are shaped by "human activity." There is a history of perceiving organs and that history is history it’s self. How do we access this history of the perceiving organs? Through the artifacts and documents perceiving organs that is art. Art; poetry, architecture, painting, music, and all other forms of history are in actuality the artifacts and past events of the perceiving orgens.

Horkheimer’s paragraph here also identifies the history of the perception of objects and perceiving organs as natural, and that these histories shaped by human action are also shapers of human action. We humans shape our perceiving organs (squinting at the sun) and our perceiving organs are shaped by the objects of the world(pupils dilated).

Imagine a history of perceiving organs. Imagine a civilization who saw their history as the history of their perceiving organs! Max Horkheimer, lets rewrite the history books with sights and smells.