The Scapegoat
- Thread starter version
- Start date
I might read that book. I don't really know anything about girard. I was gonna read a bataille next as a philosophy type book. But maybe I'll get that girard.
I like jesus based stories. I like Chester browns gospels adaptations a lot (angry jesus). Also really like the pasolini film where he's pretty stern.
And this jeet thayil book I just read has him as more of an oblique guy, the focus is on his sisters.
Good line in mumbo jumbo, which I read on holiday. He casts jesus as a trickster, an update of one of the Egyptian gods, oairis maybe, although that doesn't sound right, maybe set.
charlatan magician for the countryside yokels.
I like jesus based stories. I like Chester browns gospels adaptations a lot (angry jesus). Also really like the pasolini film where he's pretty stern.
And this jeet thayil book I just read has him as more of an oblique guy, the focus is on his sisters.
Good line in mumbo jumbo, which I read on holiday. He casts jesus as a trickster, an update of one of the Egyptian gods, oairis maybe, although that doesn't sound right, maybe set.
charlatan magician for the countryside yokels.
I got it the other day. Nice, glossy cover. I keep seeing him come up in relation to the pandemic.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Philosophy I think is worth approaching as an array of ideation methods, some of which may better complement practical pursuits than others.
Speak for yourself
French.
Everything is very current at the moment, don't you think? Currency is the main thing we are bothered about at the moment is what I mean
I'm just looking for a change of pace I suppose, from a massive novel.
I like how girard constructed his argument in thatg essay. Very precise.
Not sure I got the full lesson, but maybe over a book I might. Perhaps lukes right actually...
I guess, but this felt moreso. He ended a chapter talking about different stages of catastrophe, from natural to manufactured to pre-programmed, and said we're at the second stage (it was published in '92) which is when they're foreseeable. The third stage is deliberate and experimental, a direct result of trying to avoid the first stage, the natural catastrophe, because we can't bear to have our end dictated by anyone but us.
luka
Well-known member
what book?
The Illusion of the End.
He also talks about all of history being dug up, interrogated and recycled to try and purge the collective guilt, white people eventually renouncing their whiteness and how the West feeds on the misery of the rest of the world, spiritually as well as economically.
The stuff Mark talks about in Capitalist Realism about cultural artifacts, art and so on being locked away in museums is in there too and a load of stuff about how the news deals with events and how the West can't export its values anywhere because it no longer really believes in them itself.
The stuff Mark talks about in Capitalist Realism about cultural artifacts, art and so on being locked away in museums is in there too and a load of stuff about how the news deals with events and how the West can't export its values anywhere because it no longer really believes in them itself.