11.21.2022
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Newsletter. The previous Newsletter can be found below, as well as some of the things I’ve been reading lately:
Quick updates, Sorry that i’ve been gone for a while. I haven’t been, “busy” as much as I’ve been collecting and brewing up ideas on what to write next. Writing and publishing a weekly newsletter can sometimes drain the ideas by both not allowing enough time for an idea’s half life in the mind to elapse or for the idea to gestate and mature into an eloquent position or argument.
I’ve been reading a lot of Catholic thinkers, as well as some analytic works in the Philosophy of Math, so keep an eye out for anything dipping it’s toes into those themes. I also had/have been working on “The Transcendental Deduction of Oil series” which may or may not come out before the end of this year, as well as a new Episode of Yung and I’s podcast DECODE, should also come out before the end of the year.
I won’t go into an end of the year review in this Newsletter but I do want to warn and remind for those that have been subscribed since the inception of the Newsletter that during the holidays the “Weekly” release slows down or almost completely stops. Like I mentioned this is partly because I have to actually do research to produce the content you all enjoy but I also have to balance that with Work and spending time with Family etc.
That being said that’s all I have for the time being and definitely keep an eye out for a more, “rigorous” issue of the Newsletter in the upcoming weeks.
-C.N
Gutted
I haven’t been able to stop thinking how the world is constantly being gutted. The organs of meaning and life being ripped out and poured on the floor of some anonymous slaughter house. The respect of the earth being drained, as its carcass hangs for its meat to be cut up and sold in the market square for nothing but a days earning.
There is nothing more nihilistic in our world than the Idea that somehow truth doesn’t exist.
To constantly be creating truth and meaning and beauty and discarding it as waste from our windows and onto the public streets.
~Podcast~
09 - DECODE - A General Theory of Magic Pt. 1
In this episode of DECODE - Yung and Cute discuss "A General Theory of Magic", by Marcel Mauss. Diving deep into the definition of Magic, its perennial and memetic nature, and the importance of Ritual.
~Links~
“Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.”
― Maurice Blanchot
I would also like to send a special thank you to my Patrons:
Mirrorvisc (Patreon name)
PantherModern (Patreon name)
Colin Partch (Patreon name)
My Patreon is connected to the podcast I co-host with @YAgamben.
We recently opened up a Patreon to help support the expenses to keep some of these operations running, including hosting and things of that nature.
We strictly want to follow a “buy me a cup of coffee” model, so any “donation” is welcome. If you want to support any of our work, consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/Decodecast.
-C.N.