James P. Carse: Religious War in Light of the Infinite Game

This is the only online lecture (reflection) I could find for the brilliant author of “Finite and Infinite Games,” retired New York University professor, James P. Carse. In this lecture, Carse talks about religion, war, finite games, infinite games, self-veiling, poeisis, religion and more. This is well worth your time if you are interested in [...]

A Ghoul (tanka #43), Passive (tanka #7)

Dreams covered in phlegm shivering night, eyes pried shut to keep out the ghouls that dance outside your window and scratch their eyes out back in However, you move position yourself again like a sinner on a ship of screaming shadows lost at sea drowning daily

Vincent Gallo: “Johnny 316″ Trailer

Vincent Gallo and Erick Ifergan are artists that I admire. I found this trailer via the Quiet Earth website. (NOTE: Vimeo has taken down the trailer) The synopsis, from the film’s official website is: “A modernized version of Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome”, JOHNNY 316, directed by Erick Ifergan, unfurls in the boulevards of Hollywood, California. Vincent [...]

Money as a Form of Religion

When one deals with money, one is already in the realm of the religious, with the worship of a holy item. The accumulation of money when well achieved and comfortably at bay provides an almost heavenly comfort. When money is forced away from us, a kind of existential loss is forced away as well. The [...]

The Virtual Creature: A reading of E.M. Cioran’s “The Tree of Life” ||Part Two||

The following is part two of my reading of E.M. Cioran The simplified formula for the human being is set up by Cioran in the following way, “If God once announced that He was ‘that which is,’ man, on the other hand, might define himself as ‘that which is not.’ And it is precisely this [...]

A Marginal Depravity: Unfolding E.M. Cioran ||Part One||

E.M. Cioran (1911-1995) The following is part one of an explicative look at E.M. Cioran’s piece “The Tree of Life” from his book “The Fall into Time.” It is written that there were two trees in the Garden of Eden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The forbidden [...]