How to work and live

Everyone advises and pontificates, and what they say is wrong from the point of view of anyone with any discipline, any hedonism, any love for life and any sophistication. So I will give the anti advice. Advice: don’t read, write. Truth: reading is research. Do not try to produce without doing research. Advice: only work … More How to work and live

On subjectivity, language and the body

I am plagiarizing this post from the Facebook page of a colleague, and hope that is all right. Look: Correspondences: Adorno on Benjamin: “Despite extreme individuation […] Benjamin seems empirically hardly to have been a person at all, rather an arena of movement in which content forced its way, through him, into language.” Jim Siegel … More On subjectivity, language and the body

Le voyage

It has taken some planning but I have the plane ticket, which cost a total of one hundred twenty-seven dollars. Nights 1-7 will be in Barcelona and I must reserve that room in Born. $55×7, or $385. Nights 8-11 will be in Sitges and I must reserve my room. $50×4, or $200. On Day 12 … More Le voyage

More from Miller

Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can’t create you can work. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. Those are our three points du jour, although my favorites are still “Work on one thing at a time until finished” and “Work calmly, … More More from Miller

This could be a “therapy goal,” if one is needed

Not to withdraw, not to dissociate. To be aware of the tendency to do these things. To keep in mind that it is safe not to. (It really is amazing, the difference between not suffering anxiety/fear/panic and doing so, the difference between withdrawing and remaining in the foreground of oneself, and the difference between not … More This could be a “therapy goal,” if one is needed