The cogency of absurdity

The cogency of absurdity http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/ Beef, ultra, sex, God, Nokia, anti, wax, Mao, Crustaceans and The Simpsons ...Why everything coalesce. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:23:45 -0000 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:21:17 -0000 The cogency of absurdity http://images.ysipalindogan.multiply.com/logo http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com 100 100 A Prelude to Philo MO3 "We are entering into a world without God, a world without Morals, without Good and Bad, without direction. We are entering into a world without meaning. Do not get lost." -Dr. Florentino Hornedo's Prelude to our class in Poststructuralism http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/67/A_Prelude_to_Philo_MO3 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:21:17 -0000 What did you learn today? What did you learn from Philosophy of  History class in your first day? "History is Fiction!" - Dr. Florentino Hornedo http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/66/What_did_you_learn_today Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:55:11 -0000 yeh and yeh, put a sock in it. nyahahahaha!   http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/65/yeh Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:23:25 -0000 June 12 National Holidays are historical markers.History, as Ambeth Ocampo mentioned in his Rizal Lectures, is a story with meaning which helps shapes our social consciousness and our identity. But what is happening now is that we sacrifice the meaning behind this events for the sake of practicality: work efficiency and a longer vacation time when the government pass around important dates as if it was rag doll . We totally missed the point of the celebration, that is, the remembrance of a certain past which gives us meaning as Filipinos. Some may find it trivial, others finds it as nothing more but another day in the mall or an extension of some out-of-town activity.Most of us, correct me if i am mistaken, failed to grasp the magnanimity of such events. And sadly, many continue to put the blame on someone, on something, a person and/or an institution, in regards to the sorry state of things of our country. We blame everybody except ourselves. The radicals jumps the gun and... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/64/June_12 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 03:16:01 -0000 Fragments of apparently no good reason Quite some time already since I blogged. Just this morning a Buddhist reminded not to be too optimistic, "Life afterall is suffering" so he said with a smile. Manila, once called the Venice of Asia, remains today as one of the most abhoring places to visit. The smog fools a visitor to think that the weather is almost always about to rain. Where commuting in the metropolis, between bus-jeep-rail, is a skill that needs to be perfected in order to survive. The attempt of some locals to trendset leaves a visitor who comes from real civilization to think of the entire metropolis as a busy open-access assylum where the wanderings idiots in the streets are mere understatement to those in the palaces. Thank God, I'm not in vacation. I miss my Jeanne. Havent read anything decent since "The Illusion of the End" and that was last month. Some may criticize that if i categorized Baudrillard's attempt to elucidate his idea on History as something decent, what then would be absurd in my c... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/63/Fragments_of_apparently_no_good_reason Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:40:42 -0000 Waltz Dancing in sorrow but one can see a slip of smile, how could this be? tears and a dance does not marry so much more with a smile. And yet her long furled sleeves caresses the air as she struggles to speak of joy in speech without words and her graciousness, almost perfect but even it cannot hide her pain. Still, she dances with the air, while everything burns. http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/62/Waltz Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:17 -0000 Read. <a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/SBmzTwoKCB0AAHmdKjM1"><img style="width: 300px; height: 225px;" class="alignleft" src="http://images.ysipalindogan.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SBmzTwoKCB0AAHmdKjM1/IMGP1519.JPG?et=KaN%2ClpJkHF%2CwRUEO%2BugpTQ&nmid=" border="0"></a>What else is there to do? Have to read. I'm half-way finished with that first book, Kant, and im done with the second book, have not even opened the third book, and the fourth has been consumed only by a quarter. Read. It makes life more boring than it already is. http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/61/Read. Thu, 1 May 2008 12:15:28 -0000 A tribute to Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum February 2, 1905- March 6, 1982 May she remain where she is. Ayn Rand was wrong. In an arrogant attempt to build a philosophical system without considering the story of Philosophy, since she only considered Aristotle as the only philosophical influence of her work while she lambasted Plato and more so with Immanuel Kant whom, though not only limited to them, she considered as mystics because their philosophies conclude the limits of Reason in knowing, respectively, the World of Forms and the Noumena, has undoubtedly been her single greatest mistake in formulating the dogmas of  her Objectivism, the name of her secular cult. Her strict and seemingly rigid epistemology, (i am referring to Leonard Peikoff strain as oppose to David Kelley but suffice to say Peikoff was the intellectual heir in would follow that Rand found Peikoff to be the right propagator of her Philosophy) where the world is either this or that, no space for compromise, has surprising similarities with two oth... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/60/A_tribute_to_Alisa_Zinovyevna_Rosenbaum_ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:58 -0000 Repent and believe!!! Francis Fukuyama pointed out that the end of history is seen in the ubiquity of  neoliberalism in Society. This is the fate of the world. A point higher than High Capitalism where the world is held in the all-encompassing embrace of Globalization. Where then is Marx? The hero of the proletariat and the oppressed, the Buddha of Political Economy, the light in the dark ages of the Machine? Has he wither away before his prophecy on regards to the State?  Suffice to say, that whether he has come to pass or not, he is reduced to a whisper of frustrated intellectuals in their ivory towers. The revolutionaries up the hill have lost their flare, they are nothing more but mindless leeches waiting in a protracted state for the warm blood of power to which they could suck to satiate an already lost and hopeless cause, they are no different from those who are on the streets. Modern Globalization is the child of Capitalism, and thus expound its mother's niche in reality, to exploit an... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/59/Repent_and_believe Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:46:50 -0000 Somebody took my Oreos away Let's cut the crap. I have enjoyed my silence from blogging this summer, but somehow, some appalling individual resuscitated some dormant frustrations which inadvertedly spark-started a domino effect. Some guy, who studies in  one of the big four universities in Manila and mind you, is a Ph.D student replied to my statement in regards to Relativism in Post-modernity in the most, how should you say this: naive, primitive, down-right-god-knows-it-does-not-make-any-sense, conspicuously ungrammatical, tautologous, suffice to say: Champion for Intellectual BS for the year. Forgive the arrogance, i would have let it pass as a respectful discussion on the topic, but it appears that he's reply, obviously delusional in his part, included some attempts to undermine my reply with jest as if saying, he is right, which of course is nothing close to Reality.  When he attempts to intellectually undermine people he should at least have the following: a.) knowledge of the subject, b.... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/57/Somebody_took_my_Oreos_away Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:23:14 -0000 So did everything The single drop of water from the almost dried-up faucet violates the most innocent tone of serenity that blankets this shangrila, a dark room of concrete, bleak in first impression, where the glare of the summer sun is unable to penetrate fully to which only the most caressing shine of warmth radiates in the softest tone.  Everything was distrubed when that, the salient symbolism of life, decided to embrace the ground as if it is its long lost love and shattered itself into pieces of inumerable quantification.It dissipated and left a mark of the most violent kind but even the mark is slowly fading to obscurity, and so did everything. http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/56/So_did_everything Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:08:19 -0000 Lenten Every year God dies, well at least in the Christian sense. And what do we do? We of course have to celebrate it,  most of us prefer to go to the beach, whether in Bora or Bantayan or some exotic island, but a celebration nonetheless. Some Catholics would ask: "why the celebration?", it is a time of mourning for God is dead. But such is exactly the reason for celebrating, that "God is dead" and to top it all of, it is us, "we killed him." http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/55/Lenten Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:29:27 -0000 Baudrillard's Hyperreality   Jean Baudrillard is famous for his notion of Hyperreality which is a concept born under the Postmodern milieu. But in order to understand Baudrillard’s Hyperreality, it is important to understand the roots of its origin before he conceived of it as such. Suffice to say that Baudrillard, before he became a Postmodern superstar,  was a critic of the excesses of the capitalist mode of production and its derivative cultural consumption using the lens of Marx’s Critique of the Political Economy, which consequently led to Baudrillard being labeled as a neomarxist. His point of departure is the idea of reification presented by Gyorgi Lukacs<a style="" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a> and by so doing ended-up presenting a semiological analysis in his perspective to the critique to the Political Economy. He calls this as a “Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign.” In this critique, he presented a semiological analysis of the Marx’s Critique of the Political Economy and asserted that in the current times, the commod... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/54/Baudrillards_Hyperreality Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:37:11 -0000 I was bored So much as I wanted to buy a new pc game, i rather opted to buy Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, or Kritik der Reinen Vernunft which is a fancier and more academic way of saying, that is, in German, for the reason, that i just realized that my hard disk was partitioned in such a way that my primary drive is almost to the brink of exploding in its fulness, while my secondary disk is almost as empty as the nutshells of most of those who are graduating with honors this monday. I began to reread Kant's first Critique since I started venturing out to this testament to teutonic thoroughness and complexity when I was in my second year. Suffice to say that during that time I was only up to his preface and introduction. But now, I am determined to finish the whole book even if it means letting two upcoming Baurillards ("The Illusion of the End" and "Spirit of Terrorism") and an already bought Foucault (History of Sexuality) to stand in line, while rereading along with Descartes Meditations and ... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/53/I_was_bored Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:07:55 -0000 A dry orgy of half-goats and cadavers A Latin honor is just what I need to serve as crutches for my already vitiated ego. I thought I'd be awarded with it, since my GPA qualifies. But sadly, due to some technical issues of being underloaded, I was disqualified. This is one of the most important events in my life and  it is going down the drain. But I'm not crying, to think of it, I have problem on crying, that is, I cant cry. Where am I going? Have I fallen that low already and yet I am too blinded to see it? Is it my arrogance to say that I could not stomach some people awarded with honors during graduation who I know are force feed with mainstream education and knows almost nothing about the grand thoughts that govern the Human civilization? Perhaps I am just sour-graping. And perhaps, I really am not intellectually worthy to receive such an award. Would my toils in tinkering with yellow crinkled books of antiquity and the rather eccentric layouts of newer prints end up as mere futile attempts to understand the gre... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/52/A_dry_orgy_of_half-goats_and_cadavers Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:44 -0000 A time to unwind. <a href="/photos/hi-res/upload/R8qREQoKCB0AAGEzBZo1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.ysipalindogan.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R8qREQoKCB0AAGEzBZo1/IMGP1443.JPG?et=4cXwLnYI3rFz3bo1Y%2B3FKg&nmid=&nmid=84470007" border="0"></a> These are the two things the will keep me entertain for this week, after a grueling week of  facing idiocy and more idiocy at last i could give myself some break. Avatar Complete Season 1-3 and Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol. 1 simultaneously reached my desk just this afternoon, and i'm drooling as we speak. What better way to unwind than to watch Avatar and read Foucault? These are definitely the finer things in life. :-) http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/51/A_time_to_unwind. Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:43:30 -0000 The drama of life is that it is a perpetual agony The drama of life is that it is a perpetual agony. Change tears us apart; dislocates us from where we find our simple happiness. It reminds us that life is a spectacle, without conflict, it wouldn't be life at all. And yet when we let go of this comfort, when we have finally given up to the fancies of change, we have unknowingly damned ourselves to commit things that would forever haunt us in our short lives. It makes life shorter that it already is. ------------------------ Shattered Mirror. The fragments draw its share of my blood. And it makes its way down to the ground, an intended pun. But I was gazing at the horizon, whose impeccable thickness of Dark swallows the last vestiges of the Sun. The zephyr whispered something inaudible, left, and never came back. And then Snow came and everything petrified to ice. Amidst it, the unmistakable drops of crimson unconceals the  chaos in  this seeming monotony. http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/50/The_drama_of_life_is_that_it_is_a_perpetual_agony Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:33:44 -0000 Our Prefinal test. I am always excited with our Symbolic Logic class; though this excitement is not shared by all, to be more accurate, only shared by less than 20% of the class. This is one of those times that makes me smile out of the sheer pleasure of following the convolutions of the art. This day was different. It was pre-finals. We were told to provide proof for the following arguments. And there was this specific number which gave me a certain challenge, which i would later on, remember with frustration. It was the infamous number 2 argument in the test. Everybody in class knows it. An hour and 1/2 of gazing at it, i'm more than sure, that it had everybody worried. It is in itself 21 points, that is, it has 21 lines. Whose not going to be worried? The exam constitutes only three items. It started with glee: 1 (T.O) = (E.P)                      / E > - S 2  S = (T.O) 3 (F v M) > A 4 - (E.... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/49/Our_Prefinal_test. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:11:27 -0000 General Patronage The country is in deep shit. Are the people overreacting spurred by the noble ideals of justice and truth? Or are they just being uncritical, the role that they have been perpetually playing in society? Is it not in our interest to seek for truth? But there are those, who have already prejudged the situation,  with the pretense for Truth. How much do we know of the issue? How much do we know the Truth? What brings us the Truth? In these times, it is the Mass Media in its entire scope that brings us these events. The events unraveling is a spectacle. It is purely public entertainment. A soap opera, only this time, the audience could actualize their anger for the 'villain' by marching to the streets. Even this action, becomes a part of the show itself. Editing. It is the manifestation of social control in the realm of communication which pervades our time. The gaze of the camera is the death of the panoptic view. The movement of this gaze is motioned by capital. Virtues are nothing more ... http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/48/General_Patronage Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:45:11 -0000 I have no idea. While Sipping some Longjing Tea, glaring at Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisation 30, listening to Vivaldi's Spoza son disprezzata sung by Cecilia Bartoli, cogitating on John Donne's The Ecstacy; i have come to write about today. (I'm suppose to be writing something on Hyperrealism, but i am a procastinator. Thus, i leave it to be unattended for now.) And this is what John Perry calls Structured Procrastination. Knowledge is a farce. It is not viable. Ramon-Horta was shot. He is critical. Terrorism is media-made. There is no terrorism without the media. Media itself is terrorism. The fuss on Jun Lozado. Quo vadis verum? Richard Lisay mentioned that the Holy Spirit is not God. Merely a manifestation of Christ's teachings. What is Idiocy? Fideists. Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. Still, Kandinsy does not make sense, perhaps i should stop thinking of Donne. Or is it just the tea? Or perhaps, just perhaps, it is Bartoli singing a Vivaldi. http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/journal/item/47/I_have_no_idea. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:58:52 -0000 Goldberg Variations http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/music/item/37/Goldberg_Variations Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:26:52 -0000 Ludicrous Distortions http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/links/item/3/Ludicrous_Distortions Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:05:27 -0000 Dako In Dako http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/video/item/5/Dako Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:29:56 -0000 To Guyam A trip to Guyam http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/video/item/3/To_Guyam Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:24:11 -0000 Agnus Dei http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/music/item/33/Agnus_Dei Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:37:59 -0000 Filipino: Authentic though not exotic, Essays on Filipino Identity Alas a book that gives a thorough examination and analysis of the Filipino Identity. The book is simply superb. Dr. Zialcita's book is a response to the growing despodency of my generation's attitude towards a truly Filipino Identity. The analysis of the Filipino Identity was done with an Anthropological, Historical, and Philosophical Perspective by citing Pre-colonial and Tribal studies(Anthropological), elaborating the importance of Spanish Culture in the Philippines , and contextualizing Marx and the method of Phenomenology in the study. Read it. I kn0w i did. Both for academic and entertainment http://ysipalindogan.multiply.com/reviews/item/13 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:01:28 -0000