Practitioner and theorist starting a conversation about practising. Follow me for ideas about what practising is, how it works, and encouragement for doing it.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined December 2014
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In 2 days, the Practising book is coming out. Here’s the full cover with words from @joephughes. Thanks Joe for applying your eyes and brain, thanks @EdinburghUP, thanks Justin Gosker for art work. edinburghuniversitypress.com… — for the lovers, artists, movers, thinkers and activists.
This whole event is gonna be great. I’m speaking at it, along with my very smart colleagues @justindclemens @NoLuckLopez @ey_ves, @trueffaux, Jon Roffe, Bryan Cooke, John Cleary, Eloise Mignon, Ali Alizadeh & Russell Grigg Free! Please register: zoom or in-person. MSCP events.
“Hopes placed in infinity are supported by truths which are œuvres. But an œuvre can only be distinguished from a déchet by that which it makes rise up, as infinity, as witness to its belonging to some attribute of the absolute.” p.508. Imm des Vérités, Badiou #mscp (trans mine)
“The Ideas thereby authorise that starting from one simple proper name alone—that, subtractive, of being—the complex proper names differentiate themselves, thanks to which one is marked out: that on which the presentation of an infinity of multiples structures itself.” Badiou BE
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“This amounts to saying that even if for commodity’s sake we sometimes use the word ‘part’ to designate a subset, there is no more a concept of a whole, and thus of a part, than there is a concept of the one. There is solely the relation of belonging.” Badiou—Being & Event, p. 83
“… an ‘end’ with its ‘means’ is an inexpressibly indeterminate outline which, although it can command as precept, as ‘will’, presupposes a system of obedient & trained tools that replace the indeterminate with fixed quantities…” Nietzsche — Writings from the Late Notebooks: 128
“our…work…in which we have to respond…to what I have taught you to articulate as a demand…to which our response gives an exact meaning. & in [this] we must maintain the strictest discipline, so as not to let its deeply unconscious meaning be adulterated by that demand.”S7JL:2
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“—if the rule of action is in [orthos, logos], if there can be no good action except in conformity w the latter, how is it possible that what Aristotle calls intemperance can survive? How is it possible that a subject’s impulses draw him elsewhere?” Lacan: Seminar Book VII. p. 26
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Many thanks to @corditepoetry, Alice Allan, Autumn Royal & editors Grills and Stewart, and @RabbitPoetryAUS. The latest issue of Cordite, hot off the press today, has a conversation between me & Alice Allan of podcast Poetry Says. cordite.org.au/content/poetr… — what a chat it was…
Thanks @lithub for publishing this work and for coupling it with its “spirit photo” 😂. I couldn’t have hoped for a more resonant match. Wishes from a rainy Australia.
"If I’ve learned anything from years of yoga and meditation teaching, it’s that one should never try to relieve people of their suffering." @AntoniaPont on what we don't talk about when we talk about p__________. lithub.com/against-the-very-…
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Colette Soler: ‘What “stops not writing itself” is the definition of contingency. The expression indicates that analysis not only explores what we might believe to be already there, but produces something new that can now write itself.’ The Unconscious Reinvented. p 19-20.
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“The infant, for Bergler, is not an expert at patience, and wants things with a certain urgency. This generates rage, & so desire itself is bound up with both fury & the experience of time, due primarily to an original situation of helplessness.” Leader, Jouissance, p. 32.
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Is a certain “anxiety” a mode taken by the raw materials of joy when mired in the socialised habits of ingratitude / grievance / ressentiment? — asking for a friend.
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“… he feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.” Calvino. IC. p. 6.
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“The interplay between originality and the acceptance of tradition as the basis for inventiveness seems to me to be just one more example, and a very exciting one, of the interplay between separateness and union.” Winnicott: Playing & Reality p. 134.
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“The person we are trying to help needs a new experience in a specialized setting. The experience is one of a non-purposive state, as one might say a sort of ticking over of the unintegrated personality.” Winnicott, Playing and Reality. p. 74.
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“Our style is always a shameful relation to something.” Adam Phillips. Attention Seeking, p. 45.
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From Philipa Rothfield’s brilliant Dance & the Corporeal Uncanny (2021) p2: paraphrasing Deleuze/Foucault… theory will at some point hit the brick wall of practice, but equally, that “practice is a set of relays from one theoretical point to another” (Intellectuals & Power 1977)
“…also a squandering of our passions & desires: by the modest & petty bourgeois way we satisfy them—which corrupts taste, &.. our respect & veneration for ourselves. Phases of asceticism are the means of damming them up—of lending them dangerousness & grand style” FN—WFTLN 2[21]