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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (Cube of Zoroaster)
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Here, 'ascesis' is described by means of 'living' in order to unbind it from the (religious, spiritual, moral, athletic, etc.) teloi which often restrict it, thereby making possible the conception of novel forms of ascesis.
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The second book of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe ends with Daphnis and Chloe swearing oaths of love to one another. Initially, Daphnis professes his commitment to Chloe with Pan as his witness, whereas Chloe professes her commitment with the Nymphs as her witness. Chloe asks Daphnis to ...
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“Foolishness, anxiety (“heartbreak”), fear, and fright which I constantly experience in my body, in my flesh…” A man describes his symptoms to the sun god Shamash in ancient Assyria. He then exports his experience onto a figurine he has made as part of the treatment. “It is removed from my body!”
Fragment of a cuneiform tablet with about 5 surviving but broken lines of text.
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This conversation from "The Eight Mountains" (a beautiful film btw) calls to mind this statement from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §116).
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I recently learned that there were stylite ascetics who inhabited a Byzantine-era? fortification atop the Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens (according to local testimonies as well as accounts from Edward Dodwell and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell)
Ruins on top of remaining columns of the Olympieion in Athens
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
πάντως γὰρ οὐδεὶς Ἔρωτα ἔφυγεν ἤ φεύξεται, μέχρι ἄν κάλλος ᾖ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ βλέπωσιν. - Longus
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I am sad that it took me so long to discover Wittgenstein, as I continuously find in his work lucid and concise formulations of concepts that are rendered with obscurity by other thinkers. For instance, from Culture and Value, "Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. But only...
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. ...
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"To think from the under commons is to affirm the primacy of mobile life, of a common force that “comes under” the World, threatening its mapping, its structures of power, its civil and political society, its individuations and situation of bodies in grids of the proper." - Alex Dubilet
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Kant's marginalia in his copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysics
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“So it's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves...
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present” (Wittgenstein, Tractatus, §6.4311)
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In Diogenes' account of ascesis which is recorded in Diogenes Laertius 6.70-71, he describes the manner according to which 'bodily ascesis' corresponds to the formation of 'representations' [φαντασίαι] which permit one to 'turn with ease towards works of virtue.' Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé provides...
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mwtempleton.bsky.social @mwtempleton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Gustav Landauer “Anarchic Thoughts on Anarchism.”
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“Heresy does not begin empirically with the refusal of the World or of History as we vaguely say, but really with indifference towards the World […] heretical Identity is such by immanence and not by opposition or relation to something else.” - François Laruelle, Future Christ, p. 44
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
San Giuseppe - Anonymous, c. 1700–1799
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Of the 95 lines Diogenes Laertius' doxography of Anacharsis, 7-8 are dedicated to his fear of the sea. The first reads: "Learning that the thickness of a ship was equivalent to four fingers, he said that those sailing were [only] this far away from death."
Diogenes Laertius I.103-105, Biography of Anacharsis
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Some moments from this summer
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hold your voice quiet in your mouths (Hymn to Helios, 1) And the earth and the forest roar (Works and Days, 508) What can be shown cannot be said (Tractatus, 4.1212) An echo, latent in the rock, resound[s] (Delphic Paean, 17) And the earth below smile[s] back in all its radiance (To Demeter, 14)
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The concept of 'leisure' or 'idleness' (σχολή) is at the center of the ascetic practices of the Cynics. Diogenes is claimed to have stated that 'good men' are 'images of gods, and love the business [ἀσχολία] of the idle [σχολάζω].' Antisthenes’ speech in Xenophon’s Symposium (4.34-44) ...
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
'world' names a form-of-living-in-common, a shared form-of-living
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ξερολιθιά
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The early history of Christian asceticism is laden with sabotage. For instance, Sulpicius Severus writes that St. Martin would erect monasteries upon the pagan temples he razed. Likewise, Libanius laments the destruction caused by ascetics in the countryside around Antioch...
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"To destitute power is to bring it back down to earth." - Comité Invisible
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
'The human in man is not reducible to the sum of his predicates: the living, the speaking, the acting, the historical, the sexuated, the economic, the juridical, etc. – the philosophizing, however these predicates are calculated. This is possible man, not real man.' - Laruelle
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MACULAE TEMPORIS @maculae-temporis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Saint Sebastian (detail) – Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1623.
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