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Dasein

Life is a bitch - then you die, life is a witch - then you fly!

About Me

Aspiring shape-shifter with fierce oneiric predilections, involved in an illicit love affair with knowledge and a working relationship with death.


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My Interests

In no specific order and fluctuating commitment: Non-doing, film, neuroscience, paradox, new media, moths, epistemology, revolutions, failures, physics, sunsets, arts, tensegrity, controversy, cognitive science, jasmine, literature, decay, dreaming...In short - cultural inventions, natural technologies, the human format and deformatting.

I'd like to meet:

Fire-walkers, water-walkers, sleep-walkers and the occasional pedestrian.

Music:

Represented by, but not limited to, the following random selection: Kaija Saarjaho, Iannis Xenakis, Simon Diaz, Schonberg, Stockhausen, Shostakovich, Coltrane (x2), Bartok, Anthony Braxton, Satie, Nurse With Wound, Nina Simone, Horace Andy, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Hajdouks, Boulez, Vissotsky, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Amalia Rodriguez, Pigmies' Music, Thellonius Monk, Istvan Kantor, Shnittke, etc.

Movies:

Represented by, but not limited to, the following random selection: Glauber Rocha, Jonas Mekas, Rene Clair, Sergei Paradjanov, Robert Bresson, Tarkovsky, Brothers Quay, John Cassavetes, Woody Allen, Miclos Jancso, Federico Fellini, Georgi Diulgerov, Maya Deren, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Werner Herzog, Chantal Akerman, David Lynch, Vera Chytilova, Yasujiro Ozu, Peter Greenaway, Istvan Kantor, Louis Malle, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Jan Svankmajer, myself, etc.Malle's "Zazi dans le metro", Bergman's "Persona", Tarkovsky's "Stalker", "The Blue Danube Waltz" by Jancso, "The Baby of Macon" by Greenaway, "Uzak" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, "The Return" by Andrei Zvyagintsev, "C'est la vie" by Jean-Pierre Améris, Polanski's "Knife in the Water", Lynch's "The Grandmother", Blier's "Combien tu m'aimes?", etc.

Television:

Sasha Baron Cohen's Ali G, Borat and Bruno; Stephen Colbert; The Kids in the Hall; Monty Python; Seinfield

Books:

Represented by, but not limited to, the following random selection: Paul Feyerabend, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kant, Husserl, Henri Bergson, Julia Kristeva, Douglas Hofstadter, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Castaneda, Tolstoy, Taisha Abelar, Jose Gorostisa, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Yasunari Kawabata, Ilf&Petrov, Umberto Eco, Brecht, etc."Against Method", "Confederacy of Dunces", "Jacques, the Fatalist", "The Golden Calf", "Remembrance of Things Past", "The Bible", Goethe's "Faust", "The Confessions of Nat Turner" "Art and Sexual Persona", "Theater and its Double", Bayron's "Don Juan", "Beyond Good and Evil", "Through the Looking-Glass", "The Power of Silence", etc.

Heroes:

Those with the courage to face the unknown, the folly to pursue the impossible and the vision to grasp the unthinkable.

My Blog

Beauty is lethal

All the flickering beauty around, just about to reveal itself, before it dies out, like a moth - wise, futile, disgusting and sublime in its evasive vulnerability. Hard to catch yet once caught - fas...
Posted by Dasein on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:06:00 PST

Paradox

The grief of all things gone, the joy of all things born...
Posted by Dasein on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:55:00 PST

Homage to Stockhausen

Stockhausen was the sountrack of 2007 for me. Watching his music transfigured in one of the latest Brothers Quay films... My friend tENT making a copy of a rare vinyl... Listening, list...
Posted by Dasein on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:26:00 PST

My movie VANITAS is finally out (of the film-making closet)

Check it out below. It's about a Vanitas still life coming to motion to turn the lives of obejcts upside down. Vanitas is a 17th century Northern Renaissance genre that came about when North...
Posted by Dasein on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:32:00 PST

Please, do not post big visuals as it breaks my heart to

delete them. I love the visual posts I have had but I find they take too much space and overwhelm others. If you'd like to promote your work, you are welcome as long as the size of the image is not to...
Posted by Dasein on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:12:00 PST

Pretty flat

The ugly is often beautiful, but the pretty - never.
Posted by Dasein on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:01:00 PST

The abyss

In response to "Nietzsche": The abyss proves nothing. Proof is only needed when we have no direct (access to) knowledge. Stretching out beyond words, the abyss can only be experienced. ...
Posted by Dasein on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

Art or suicide

Art is nature's suicide. It happens where nature retrieves, or rather - advances to its own edge. Why then should artists try to be nature-like? Art is a construct, a fabrication, a mystific...
Posted by Dasein on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:28:00 PST

Jean Baudrillard obituary

On the 7th of March the great intellectual joculator Jean Baudrillard simulated death (or so we choose to pretend).  His definitive passing will be commemorated (for a random period) on...
Posted by Dasein on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:02:00 PST