7.11.2022
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Newsletter. Last week’s Newsletter can be found below, as well as some of the things I’ve been reading lately:
Michel Serres - “Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together”
I’ve slowly been making my way through this book, and some of its insights have completely captured me. The book itself feels unfinished to one degree or another; technically, this was a rushed manuscript that has been revised. Ultimately it feels like a collection of ideas with a loose thread connecting them, that being “Religion.”
Stoner - John Williams: This is one of the few fiction works I’ve read in a while; I don’t want to say much about the book because it’s one of those books that you can get immersed in, but it touched me. It captures the melancholy of the mundane in a way that is both “nihilistic” in its insignificance and beautiful in its depiction and sadness.
08 - DECODE - Negative Theology Ft. Cuteness Unit (Patron Only Link)
In this episode of DECODE - Cuteness Unit joins us to tackle Negative Theology. We dive in the deep end of overcoming depressive episode, Limit experiences with psychedelics, and the Vitalism inherent in some of these concepts.
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“Humanity is more than ever the author of its own fall because it has become able to destroy its world. With respect to Christianity, this is not just an ordinary moral condemnation, but an unavoidable anthropological observation. Therefore we have to wake up our sleeping consciences. Seeking to comfort is always to contribute to the worst.” — René Girard
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