Weird Embodiment

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Weird Embodiment Tim Morton

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A presentation by Tim Morton to accompany the talk, "Weird Embodiment" at UC Davis, May 9, 2013.

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Weird Embodiment

Tim Morton

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irony, a sense of the concreteSimone de Beauvoir

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1. E+MP 2. ~E+MP

3. ~E–MP4. E–MP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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Möbius Strip

Non-orientable surface

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1. E+MP 2. ~E+MP

3. ~E–MP4. E–MP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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1. E+MPNatureEliminative materialism

2. ~E+MP

3. ~E–MP4. E–MP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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1. E+MP

3. ~E–MP4. E–MP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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1. E+MP 2. ~E+MP

3. ~E–MPDeconstruction

4. E–MP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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1. E+MP 2. ~E+MP

3. ~E–MP4. E–MPWeird essentialism

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

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Past

Future

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Spinach versus Sparkle

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Beauty

Death

Hypocrisis

Happy nihilism Dark nihilism

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Nothing Oukontic“not even nothing”

Meonticnothingness

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What constitutes pretense is that, in the end, you

don’t know whether it’s pretense or

notLacan

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Prajnaparamita Sutra

Form is emptinessEmptiness is form

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Body without OrgansIs it really so sad and dangerous to be fed up with seeing with your eyes, breathing with your lungs, swallowing with your mouth, talking with your tongue, thinking with your brain, having an anus and larynx, head and legs? Why not walk on your head, sing with your sinuses, see through your skin, breathe with your belly: the simple Thing, the Entity, the full Body, the stationary Voyage, Anorexia, cutaneous Vision, Yoga, Krishna, Love, Experimentation. Where psychoanalysis says, “Stop, find your self again,” we should say instead, “Let's go further still, we haven't found our BwO yet, we haven't sufficiently dismantled our self.

Deleuze and Guattari

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Body without Organs4. [W]hen breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped—in such universal pause, one's small self vanishes… … 12. Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all-inclusive.  … 14. Bathe in the centre of sound, as in the continuous sound of a waterfall. Or, by putting fingers in ears, hear the sound of sounds

Centering (Tantric yoga instructions)