/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19838576]

Imagine modernity as a kind of transcendental
- or topological - mitosis: one body becoming two: the gladiators of positivism and romanticism raging in the bridge: subjects bound to the World in the mode of its unbinding, or exorcised completely: the quintessential gnostic procedure: for Holderlin, art is this mitosis in reverse: the return or at least flirtation with the divine sleep of matter: poesy is the enemy of pneuma, the totalizing organ: but the scholarship doesn't emphasize this enough: Gnosticism is a rejection of both Judaism /and/ paganism, of both ultra-transcendence and preflexive immanence: the gnostic is properly irreflexive, in defiance of the Sophianic auto-affection = auto-eroticism, which masturbated the stars into being: is not Henry's self-enjoying Life which “cannot cease to adhere to itself” nothing but Schelling's God which is “never free to be unfree”? Is not the eye with which god sees God not the eye with which God sees the dead?