Sudden flurry of activity and then silence...

OOPS

Silly Saturday: The 'Best' of Street Fighter the Movie

An excellently put together and edited video highlighting one of the worst video game film adaptations ever (and that's really saying something!).

And by worst, I mean the best!

Continuing the theme of 'so bad they're good' films, started last week with Hercules, this is another feast of; camp acting, dreadful line delivery, wrong headed casting, Jean Claude Van Damme, a ridiculous script and nonsense plot. Fantastic fun!

Photo Friday: some city shots

The Magician produces a rabbit from his wallet...

Golden Post box for a local Paralympian

Golden Box in Golden Square

This should give some idea of what country I'm presently in...

Away from home this week, normal service resumes next week.

Words on Wednesday: Interview with Georges Bataille

"Writing is the opposite of working... that the right thing to do in life [is] to devote [oneself] to commercial activities, and if you did something else, you were doing something evil."

Georges Bataille discusses the key concept in his book 'Literature and Evil' in a TV interview from 1958. Interviewer: Pierre Dumayet. Translation: hvolsvellir

Love is the Law (4): Love as illness

Love as illness.

Understanding is not a cure, but this defines the apparent problem (the problem of love as illness). We are ill with love in that we don't or cannot understand how we are experiencing the strong overpowering love we do feel towards an other. This still relates to the passive idea of love, however, in this mode our passivity means we are under its thrall. Love controls us and is therefore an illness in that we normally control our lives in a direct rational manner. However, we might also disagree with this description absolutely. The activity of reason, loves dulling or numbing of the action. Reason as controller.

Most emotions/feelings can be understood and expresed as an individualised perspective, however, love that is mutually expressed, shared and recipricated is therefore something quite other going on. In this sense it is the most philosophically important expression of an emotion, hence the image of a test, if this is what Wittgenstein meant. Perhaps we could think of the individual's love (non-reciprical for another also as a test, if so, the fuller kind (shared) is then a public inquiry.