Radio DelEuZe: Spinoza in Beirut

28.4.09

Spinoza in Beirut

Ah les livres sont mes amis ... et votre ami, aussi lecteurs ~

A tribute to
our dearest Baruch
SPINOZA
the
spinning doctor of immanence

In light of the announcement of Beirut as the World Book Capital, a seminar will be organized on the life of the philosopher Spinoza and his works as a tribute to his defense of freedom of speech in the 17^th century.

The German professor, Wiep Van Bunge and other Lebanese intellectuals such as Jad Hatem, Mariette Fayad and Nicole Hatem will participate in the seminar titled, “Spinoza, courage and freedom of speech”.

Organizer: Embassy of Holland and the School of Philosophy at Saint Joseph University. Date: 9 May 2009

From Beirut with Love

via Unesco's

Beirut as W or ld Book Capital a grand re and deterritorialzing in this country that has bled so much yet reads, writes, and prints as much and produces more books than other country in the Arab world.

for more of this marvelous reading and writing celebration
voila the calendar and
a recent write up in the Daily Star of Beirut ~

et more ici from
Book Patrol ~

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and in this very same city of beirut beauty our father Genet's writing's to
be performed and studied

__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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__________AnD

What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

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As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.