The Invisible Man - How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling Foucault Studies, 2019 Marrigje Paijmans

How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling

Foucault Studies, 2019

Marrigje Paijmans

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ..Krishnamurti

Creation takes place in choked passages" (G. Deleuze) which means for me there's no passage which is unchoked - hence, any creation for which "passage" is taken for granted (especially the one from 'noise to voice' (The Logic of Sense) cannot be creative at all.

I would say prison is a “choked passage.”

Laboratory of Nano-Fascism:  Although this relationship to death was once thought to belong originally to punk, expressed specifically in the funeral sculptures of Joy Division covers such as Closer and Love Will Tear Us Apart, and PIL’s Death Disco, it has been repurposed by Neanderthal capital in order to zombify the world.

Non Conceptual Negativity  Zafer Aracagök

Can we come back to Krishnamurti on this please. " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." My personal feeling is that if you are not depressed, melancholy or bi polar or schizophrenic you are not paying attention.

This is interesting: “Owen Andree Um, no. The hysterics' *desire* is to continually and question/harangue the Master/authority's position.”

To see the Invisible Man may be to instantly recoil in fear, disgust, horror, side step, turn away from an image covered face to toes with dark prison tattoos. Not a human one wishes to link with.

A live human image that has disintegrated the boundaries, the limits of class, sex, age and race.

AND NON DECORATIVE

An image that is irreplaceable, non-reproducible, non-commodified, non exchangeable or accumulated. You cannot buy it, sell it, hoard it, own it, keep it, display it. A living image that can be destroyed physically, but alive forever in the imaginations of subjects who have allowed themselves to experience the Invisible Man. A digital image existing in Simulated Reality will be as useless as J. Hillis Miller tells you the reading of Heart of Darkness will be if you do not already know it from experience, and if you do you will not need to read it. The image recorded is not to experience the REAL. Only the experience of the real Invisible Man will challenge you with parrhesia, the truth of parrhesia that confronts you in your experience of him. Did it?

Without experiencing the confrontation of parrhesia inherent in his image your imagination cannot transform the work of art that he is, which precludes any change in your mode of being, your lived life, by your experience of him. An image of the human body aligned and defined in great classical beauty resonating with classical Greek sculpture inscribed, desecrated with ugly prison tattoos - some ironically funny and some cliches, but never aesthetic. And so the different levels of episteme through time from ancient Greece to the post modern NOW hit you between the eyes.

 Richard Hambleton- Jumping Shadow       Fight Club?

Foucault’s genealogical method reveals The Invisible Man’s fusion with other works of art signaling parrhesia and challenging us with confrontation and a demand for change, for transformation of ourselves to a different way of seeing, perceiving and being. Only OTHERNESS can accomplish this. Not different. OTHERNESS.

Velasquez: Las Meninas

Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe / Luncheon on the Grass

Picasso:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Guernica

Warhol:Campbell Soup Cans

Jasper Johns:Flags and Destruction of Abstract Expressionism
Kathy Acker: everything
Herman Melville:Moby Dick:Ishmael and Queequeg
Leslie Fiedler:essays (football et al)
Leo Steinberg: art history and essays
Shakespeare: everything

Banksy: Performance Piece Dismaland;wall murals of political parrhesia

Ai WeiWei: Sculptures
Mark Tansey: everything

Marina Abramovic: Performance Art; The Artist Is Present

Luce Irigaray: Speculum of the Other Woman

Roberto Bolano: 2666

Eugene:The Invisible Man 

Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Ishmael and Queequeg (p. 535)

With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a seachest: and emptying into his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid  with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy  parts of the twisted tattooing on his body. And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read though his own live heart beat against them;and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg - "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"

IF YOU CANT BE A WORK OF ART, WEAR A WORK OF ART. - OSCAR WILDE

Genealogy of Body Tattoos - Tamati Waka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926), 1890, oil on canvas, 40”x33”, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. 

Beautiful Face.

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner

In Robert Wilson's Opera
The Life and Times
Of Sigmund Freud,
I watched you run
Before you were born.
A Mercury of Time,
Now a running Apollo
Scribbled all over
By drunken Dionysians
With intentions of Parrhesia
You know nothing about.
Seeing you now confuses
The past which was
The future and this present
Mirroring the past.
Is there a tense somewhere
That they call
Future past or past future
Like the Intentional of the Hopi?
Because her car was laden
With Destiny that came
Crashing across my lifeline
Forcing me to live
In Alterity; waving at her
Drifting farther away,
Until I almost can't hear her sigh.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward.  Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable. CHILDREN OF DUNE  Leto II p. 278 *
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They aren’t all prison tattoos 

She screamed at me
On Facebook! 

This one and this one

Were done on the outside.

My brother did the cross

He tattooed over!

There are more prisons 

In this world, Horatio

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
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The Aral Sea is the future. Since it exists in the present we fail to recognize that it is only
wearing the mask of the present. It is a Debordian spectacle concealing the REAL forming
the present from the future.A radical piece of the future detached and both visible and invisible.

Neil Burger's Divergent

opens with Lake Michigan mirroring the Aral Sea and surrounding areas, the future in the
fantasy movie image of a present Chicago

Reading Assange and Manning Through Zizek's Criminality of Law and Order

Zizek's Introduction is Perfect.

Snowden Escaped Barely in Time Thanks to Assange

Foucault's Genealogy of Parrhesia- From Ancient Greece

Write to Assange in Solidarity

Manning Back in Jail. Obama Waited Too Long to Free Her

Zizek's Introduction

....anarchist outbursts are not a transgression of the Law and Order; in our societies , anarchism already is in power wearing the mask of Law and Order - our Justice is the travesty of Justice, the spectacle of Law and Order is an obscene carnival - the point made clear by the arguably greatest political poem in English, Shelley's 'The Mask of Anarchy', which describes the obscene parade of the figures of power:

And many more Destructions played

In this ghastly masquerade,

All disguised, even to the eyes,

Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

Last came anarchy: he rode

On a white horse, splashed with blood,

He was pale even to the lips,

Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kingly crown;

And in his grasp a sceptre shone;

On his brow this mark I saw - 

'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'

And is not this Hegelian-Chestertonian shift from the criminal transgression of Law and Order to Law and Order itself as the highest criminal transgression directly enacted by Mao (read the US here)  himself? This is why, while setting in motion and secretly pulling the strings of the self-destructive carnival, Mao nonetheless remained exempt from its turbulence: at no moment was there ever a serious threat that Stalin (or Mao) himself would be ritualistically deposed, treated as 'yesterday a king, today a beggar' - he was not the traditional Master, but the 'Lord of Misrule':

And who is our Lord of Misrule? Trump? Congress? Or all of them? 

NO

It is the reign of today's global capitalism which is the true LORD OF MISRULE!

ZIZEK

HILLARY'S EMAILS!ALL OF THEM!

Where Are Her Emails? 

Here They Are! Why Kenneth Goldsmith Printed Out All 60,000 of Hillary Clinton’s Emails for His New Show in Venice

Kenneth Goldsmith’s “HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails” is on view at Despar Teatro Italiano, Campiello de l’Anconeta, 1944, 30121 Venezia, May 9–November 24, 2019.

So Goldsmith didn't think they were so bad. I read the ones posted in a column on my timeline and I was appalled.
To me they were exactly like those nasty notes sent in high school to certain people from certain people.
Yes it was just like high school.
Only Hillary wanted to be president of my country and interact with rulers of other countries,
only she was still in high school.
That is the mentality of Hillary Clinton.
I dont want high school to rule the world for me.

POEMS 5-11-19

TATTOO ME

A tattoo inscribes memories

Is it Death or the Roses

You want

For your pain and pleasures?

I will wound you until

Your voices inside are still.

“I wish to be tattooed,” she said

All up and down my arm.

Stitch my scar roses with thorns

Hearts and Forget-Me-Nots

What is it I cannot remember?

INVISIBLE ONE

He has frozen time

To give himself make-believe time.

To alter a destiny that cannot be altered

His body of pictures

Fragmented images to be cut up

Put together - like a puzzle

But all is complete and pure

To eyes that see and know for sure

Do not forget Nyarlathotep

Comes for all

Who cannot pierce bewitching beauty

To observe Death and ugliness hiding The Fall

Walk away do not follow.

There is no safe place with others

In this time of hostile feathers.

Is Kim Kardashian a Simulacrum? Kanye West's Galatea?

Is She Real?

This is worth reading as  you are looking at a modern Pygmalion story. Kanye told her she must change her look and since "I really trust him. He was right." Here is the link to Pygmalion if you don't know the myth where the great sculptor announced he was through with women and began to make the most beautiful woman in the world out of Ivory. ( Oh all those elephants dead.)He falls in love with his creation, Venus breathes life into her, they marry and have a child.  KK is really a walking talking Simulacrum. A copy of a copy with no original. She is beautiful and the Vogue photo shoot is wonderful. But is she REAL? She says she is planning to take the bar and become a criminal lawyer to help those of her race who are overlooked and sentenced unfairly. We will see I guess. 

So Kanye "sculpted Kardashian's Look and you see it now above.

Those of her race? Which one. She thinks Black but is she Black? 

In case you don't know Fanon, he was a Black psychoanalyst from Martinique who wrote a number of books you should read for your own knowledge.

And here's Pygmalion with his very own Simulacrum Galatea.

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-pygmalion-and-galatea/ 

The Inspiration for My Fair Lady

Interesting how mythology plays out in real life eh?

Reading Julian Assange With Thomas Merton

Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for Him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because He cannot be at home in it, because He is out of place in it, and yet He must be in it, His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world. He is mysteriously present in those for whom there seems to be nothing but the world at its worst.

Julian has said publicly that he thinks the only thing that can save us and our world is Christianity.

Jesus was following Isaiah and it seems to me that Simone Weil was following Jesus. Assange? Assange has given us TRUTH on those who govern or attempt to govern us in our EVIL EMPIRE. He has been imprisoned in the UK and awaits forced extradition to ROME! We must not let them take him to torture and imprison him for telling us TRUTH. We now live under totalitarianism that is rapidly metastasizing to enfold our lives. 

Facebook Banning for Predicting the Synagogue Shooting

It seems that a short time before the Synagogue shooing this past week my post predicting such a thing went up on Facebook as a comment where it was immediately reported and I was banned. I was also unable to dispute the banning as the software deliberately glitched on me many times over the 3 days I could not post. So I went on twitter and tweeted the hell out of it. Here it is saved.

You can't post or comment for 3 days

This is because you previously posted something that didn't follow our Community Standards.

This comment goes against our standards on hate speech, so no one else can see it.

So please when is a prediction HATE SPEECH?

Janet Abbey The #Zionists are sealing the doom of Jews all over the world. They will be hunted and killed because of these insane Zionists.

6 Replies · 1 · last Saturday

Received on 4-27-19 @ 4:00 pm

My explanation:

An error because I was warning that Zionists are endangering Jews everywhere and that especially includes my own Jewish friends. I resent this censoring that ONLY applies to Zionists, not sadistic images posted for attention on killing animals or torturing them. Just for what people say in response to torture is censored. FB is probably going to suffer for doing this as the quality of posters has been going down down down because of your censoring. You do not get the trash that are cluttering up Facebook but mostly those who give thoughtful intelligent responses. I am one of these and I resent this.

Then when I posted this complaint to them after being asked to do so if I disagreed I got this:

Could not process your request

We could not process your request. Please try again later.

With a blue link saying   Close

I have been using twitter to comment about this FB fug. So now I get this when I try to explain the misreading. I guess the algorithm is AI and not so good is it. Not a question.

Facebook users are the PRODUCT of Facebook. We are the PRODUCT Facebook sells and makes billions from. In your leisure time you are enriching the CORPORATION of Facebook and it cares not a whit for you. YOU are the COMMODITY Facebook sells. You are no more important to Facebook than the elephant being tortured is to the circus, or the pigs being slaughtered for your dinner. We are all commodities and that includes humans. So Facebook addicts you to your "friends" who are not friends, to your thoughts in Simulated Reality, your life in Simulated Reality, then turns off your access because its algorithm can't read and because the commentor that cant read either, reported you.

This was a wake up call for me. I feel I shovel sand on Facebook because most people on it are not well educated. How can they be when they went to school under NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND when all chirren were left behind so left behind is now normalized and institutionalized. Then to fix it and tweak it a little all of them can get advanced university degrees with student loans that make them indentured servants for the rest of their lives. They think they are well educated. They have master degrees and PhD's galore out there. Have you ever watched any of them studying in a public place? Have you seen them filling out pages in workbooks. Going to Harvard or Yale in Detroit on alternative campuses or doing an online degree with some college that is now extinct and can give your degree no clout when you go for a job demanding that degree? The swindle is so astronomical it cannot be believed so it keeps on cooking.

Is a post predicting the shooting so outrageous that it is even investigated by the powers of government? Am I the only one that sees the genocide of Palestinians by the ZIONISTS of Israel as leading to a lifetime of consequences for Jews all over the world. Cannot the Jews even see how they are endangering their families, their lives, their children? To me this is all so OBVIOUS a future coming at us like a freight train. Now each one of us who goes out publicly with our Jewish friends is now at risk. And still no one tells the ZIONISTS to stop as that is considered Anti-Semitic! Anti-Semitic? How are words anti-Semitic but risking murder is not?

Please tell me. All this is making that wretch Gordon Winrod look like a prophet!

Thoughts on Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson Debate

Zizek and Peterson Debate

Much can be said and unsaid about this debate. The tickets were expensive and scalped even higher, showing the Brandens were ultimately right and Ayn Rand not. People will pay for philosophy lectures.

The Intro listed the academic credentials beginning with Z who was immediately disgusted. The ritual of the accounting and awards of the institutions of the repressive states that have granted their seals of approval - read BRANDS - for the presence of Z and Peterson on this stage, before this audience, presented for the cameras and manufactured for the prestige and brownie points - gold stars? - that will be received by the producers. Slavoj Zizek of course is being pimped for Peterson, his western supporters and their institutions.

Peterson presents a formidable and fashionable image, carefully trimmed beard, hair, and I bet finger and toenails. A Simulacrum of the early T.S. Eliot Virginia Woolf describes in her diary.

I invited X - sorry forget? - for lunch. Do come. Eliot will be here in his four piece suit. 

And this is how Wyndham Lewis has painted his portrait as a young man in Ezra Pound's salon.

T.S.Eliot Portrait by Windham Lewis

The simulacrum also smacks of the great, brilliant and unwavering man of integrity, charm and charisma, the older Leo Steinberg, who said, "Psychoanalysis saved my life." Those of us who have experienced analysis - experienced is the only valid familiarity that really counts when one is talking, writing, thinking about analysis - have all been saved by it, by Freud, and all those already saved, in order to suffer ordinary normal unhappiness rather than neurotic misery.

The other statement among many Steinberg tossed off was that in art school he graduated with first prizes in all his exhibited senior work. "And I knew then that I would never be great." So he stopped, because anyone who has personally experienced the presence of Steinberg, knew that he wanted to be great. He was superb in seeing what he called the watershed moment - 

The Foucaldian CUT

 -  in a painter's life or in painting in particular. That moment when Jasper Johns first exhibited, Steinberg was disturbed. He didn't like the work but it disturbed him so he went back and he made the Foucauldian CUT that ended Abstract Expressionism with John's breakout work. He tells of this in his book Other Criteria. 

Anyway Peterson mimics the image of those two men: urbane,cultured, educated, an extremely attractive and articulate man of his time. Z is Z, rumpled T-Shirt, roughly groomed and shaved, and wildly gesturing. A man utterly himself, warts and all, who exhibits a mass and mess of thinking that defies all linearity, continuity, persuasive progressions, categorizations and lists. 

Ah those fascist ever present lists that delineate all knowledge for us.

Two Choruses from The Rock-Eliot

The endless cycle of idea and action,

Endless invention, endless experiment,

Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;

Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. p. 81

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,

All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,

But nearness to death no nearer to GOD,

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

And Foucault:

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not knowing. Knowledge is made for CUTTING

Peterson is a clinical psychologist by training and he sees - saw? - patients. In the part of the debate about ethics and morality he uses the example of the patient that cannot stop wrong actions, but who has also formulated a goal for therapy. To reach his goal in therapy these obstructions to getting to the goal must be confronted. Peterson employs stopping the action of wrongness in one of small seemingly unimportant instances as a point of a beginning, an initial starting place.

A series of wrong actions? A repetition of wrong actions? And Peterson is using Wolpe and Goldstein's Behavior Therapy method of "thought stopping" turned into "action stopping" while Z has quoted Hegel, "To act is always to err," which Peterson seizes on.

The Owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.- Hegel

Here is where I might have intervened with, "If your patient repeatedly performs the 'wrong' action," reading through Simone Weil here, "What is the value of the opposite, the 'right action' and consider if the patient almost always knows the wrong action, then your patient almost always knows the 'right action' and avoids it. Does the patient know the right action or does your patient know the right action but does not know she knows?"

This is what would interest my knowing in just one of these exchanges lost in the morass of communication - discourse? - between Z and P.

The civilized discussion Peterson feels has taken place has occurred on the surface, yes. Because Zizek has not probed deeper to expose the contradictions, and Peterson's use of The Communist Manifesto - which was written for the workers in the factory - instead of a deep and thorough reading of Capital. The Grundrisse is not even mentioned. And Althusser's unsurpassed reading of Marx in his Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses of Reproduction.

The inadequate scholarship of Peterson, the Western debater, is visible, but only to those who have some grasp of the invisible scholarship here in this debate. The scholarship displayed by a celebrity figure the west has manufactured and produced to be pimped by the incomparable, irreplaceable, anti-xeroxible Slavoj Zizek.

The reader might also remind herself that the USSR employed many therapies, to its dissidents especially. Behavior Therapy based on Pavlov's Conditioned Response and Skinner's Operant Conditioning was especially honored. The only one that was banned, disallowed, punished was psychoanalysis.

So of course, that was the one I wanted most to experience since I was/am a negatively suggestible person. Did I write about Happiness and Capitalism here?

Reading ERIC HOFFER's The True Believer

This book has been around since 1951 and there are many copies very affordable at Amazon and I guess elsewhere.

Hoffer outlines the variables necessary and sufficient for recruiting members to a MASS MOVEMENT.  The US has none of these variables and is immune to being recruited. 

What about the homeless! They have nothing. Well when people are in this mode of survival - not living, survival - they spend the day trying to find a safe place to rest, maybe eat their lunch if they have found food, or a safe place to sleep, etc. The day to day survival precludes and takes their energy for any time for thinking, contemplation, solidarity, or plans to resist. It is just day to day and just that's the way the world is for me now. They have no communal support and are in competition with each other every day. 

Equality is not a variable, and this is what Americans demand and yell for all the time. Equality is divisive and leaves people wanting more and more seeing that their neighbors have more than they. So as Americans demand equality they are becoming more alone, frustrated, desperate, passive and helpless. And competitive.

But the good news is that US policy abroad is creating refugees, maybe manufacturing refugees is a better word, in apparently unlimited numbers as they keep increasing.

When people are torn from their country, their tribe, their groups, their families, their homes, their hopes and dreams invested in their traditional way of life, and the complete loss of all communal financial and emotional support they are RIPE for recruiting into a 

MASS MOVEMENT 

that will offer them what they have lost.

China will not have to wean them away from their homes, work at disrupting their family life (Marx), as it is all being done for them by the US military. China will be able to arrive on the scene offering hope and a purposeful future of cooperative activity, just as they are doing in Zimbabwe. BTW China knows this and is just playing the Waiting Game. 

Their history is to NOT have to fire a shot. 

And their history is to order all into a harmonic world peace. They have been to boot camp on all this in their 4000 years of chaos,wars, aggressions, conflicts, dynasties, competition of rulers, etc. And each dynasty studied the failures and successes of the past ones so they would not be repeated. 

Also China has been able to embrace and obtain the strengths of their conquerors and the ones they have conquered. This is exactly what Marcuse said of the capitalistic machine. It devours its opposition - like Pac-Man - and makes itself stronger. 

This is going to be very interesting as China's challenge - reading through Toynbee now - is deterritorialized corporate capitalism. Will China be able to meet that challenge and continue on a path of growth.

Enter China and its Communistic, Socialistic Culture. As the US creates ever more people for China to win over they have no idea they are sowing the seeds for the future of the world that is coming at us like an unseen tractor trailer down the highway. 

We should be reminded that the US has multitudes of Chinese citizens already solidly in the Universities, businesses, the arts, etc. They are formidable, educated, obedient and disciplined. The strength of China has been in the order of the families laid down by Confucius. 

Already world finance is lining up in China. We received the Gift of 9-11 in the Symbolic Order as expounded by Jean Baudrillard. A Counter-Gift is required. Not right away but it must be returned and it must be greater than the Gift or the receiver of the Gift must commit suicide. So we are seeing the US committing suicide now. Killing Bin Laden occurred in the Order of Production not the Symbolic Order and it doesn't count.

So here we are fussing about who released emails that told the truth which we didn't want released of course, and fussing about Biden smelling a woman's hair a few years ago and touching another one.Well Nero fiddled his fiddle while Rome burned, didn't he?