File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2004/postanarchism.0401, message 52


Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:46:29 -0800 (PST)
From: none none <heytravil_nomad-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] on nihilism as strategy



A RESPONSE TO ARAGORN! NIHILISM AS STRATEGY 

blanchot and my own ideas. a response to aragorn! Nihilism as strategy here are some notes I took of that reading .

these note are just ideas inspired by blanchots reading of Nietzsche. I noticed the blanchot quote and decided to add to it 

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. Alas the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold I show you the last man. thus spoke zarathustra




The devaluation of values, and the creation of new values, in that process was the key to understanding nihilism if anything nihilism is a ethical tactic, or re valuation of values, nihilism is the extreme that cannot be gotten over yet it urges us to try to go beyond it..so is nihilism a humanism? Man creates the world everyday and gives it meaning a new sea lies before us with out truth and the sky as our boundary .nihilism is not some irrational call. But a highly individual hermeneutic it’s an event achieved in history and a shedding of history at the same time. a paradigm shift so to speak. Value no longer has value its self if all is permitted when the authority of old values collapses. But mostly it is a reaction to science all the world is measured and valued by science and technology remember its historically a 19th century reaction to a changing world to Darwinism etc. when the world is given meaning by science giving new rules. the moment nihilism outlines the world for us
 its counterpart science creates tools to dominate it. science is its self very nihilistic in another sense its meaning of a world without meaning has ultimately ignorance at its basis with its one truth for all without discourse all mysteries will be solved for us and handed to us depriving us of critical thought is its self very nihilistic for was not science created by critical thought? Knowledge is very dangerous"we experiment with truth maybe we will be destroyed by it"-Nietzsche so science creates a world where scientists are no longer needed. The overman is the one who surpasses himself. So transvaluetion does not give us a new scale of values on the basis of negating every absolute value it makes us attain an order for which the notion of value ceases to apply for Nietzsche nihilism is from a no of this world to a yes of the unknown world we must enter.




Larry Mintz <kabir-AT-CITENET.NET> wrote:
Shawn stated: 
You can, apparently, redefine "postmodernism" to mean *process philosophy*,
as Griffin has been doing in his "positive postmodernism" campaign. I like
Whitehead, and think there's a good deal left to begleaned from his thought,
but Griffin seems to be clouding the already cloudy issue of "the postmodern
"


I was refering more to the Subject header than the article itself
Larry




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