Wednesday, April 9, 2014

- 2 Girard & Enneagram related links, April - July 2014

GIRARD LINKS

 http://www.iep.utm.edu/girard/

http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2007/01/voice-of-scapegoat-series.html
https://www.facebook.com/AlterNetNews/posts/10152293864842507

http://www.academia.edu/5472258/Tocqueville_Girard_and_the_Mystique_of_Anti-Modernism

Adbusters mentioned
http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html

Fromm, religious violence
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/6/0/7/7/pages360776/p360776-12.php

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=rene+girard&as_oq=adbusters+narcissistic+fromm+&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=



all the following through to zurinstitute.com link I think were found under the search above

the book "Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory" Freud, myths
http://books.google.com/books?id=MSFdppHDSpcC&pg=PT96&lpg=PT96&dq=adbusters+OR+narcissistic+OR+fromm+%22rene+girard%22&source=bl&ots=RlhRb1mcFl&sig=1OPjEgYCfiF6Zk2UYX_go-lSDWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FEzSU92kAcrwoAT8gYK4Dw&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=adbusters%20OR%20narcissistic%20OR%20fromm%20%22rene%20girard%22&f=false

"A Triangle of Thoughts: Girard, Freud, Lacan" Maurizio Meloni, not pdf, GOOD!
http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number14/meloni.htm


Culture Jammed: The Art of Subverting Violence, not pdf, mentions Foucault
http://www.medienimpulse.at/articles/view/310

In their study L’enfer des choses (cf. Dupuy/Dumouchel 1979) that was published more than 30 years ago and that applies Girard’s mimetic theory to the field of economy, Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Paul Dumouchel explain in detail how capitalism, scarcity and envy are inextricably linked. Simply put, it is envy, as a particular modulation of mimetic desire, in a triangular setting characterized by scarcity that makes us crave for what others seem to “really” want. Capitalist culture is a culture as ephemeral as it is mimetic – and the advertising industry is the veil that keeps our yearning for the final object of desire alive.

Girardian terms/concepts gone over, short and GOOD overview it seems, terrorists, war (war and terrorism at bottom of page)“Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.”




Hedges also describes the difference between totalitarianism and inverted totalitarianism (“economics trumps politics”) and what's wrong with .

“The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin uses the term inverted totalitarianism in his book Democracy Incorporated to describe our political system. In inverted totalitarianism, the sophisticated technologies of corporate control, intimidation, and mass manipulation, which far surpass those employed by previous totalitarian states, are effectively masked by the glitter, noise, and abundance of a consumer society. Political participation and civil liberties are gradually surrendered. Corporations, hiding behind this smokescreen, devour us from the inside out….
http://chycho.blogspot.com/2013/12/chris-hedges-introduction-to-inverted.html

“Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.” Chris Hedges in article at adbusters dot org https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/88/chris-hedges.html

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_illusion_corporatism_and_inverted_totalitarianism_20100203

Hedges also describes the difference between totalitarianism and inverted totalitarianism (“economics trumps politics”) and what's wrong with .

'The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin uses the term inverted totalitarianism in his book Democracy Incorporated to describe our political system. In inverted totalitarianism, the sophisticated technologies of corporate control, intimidation, and mass manipulation, which far surpass those employed by previous totalitarian states, are effectively masked by the glitter, noise, and abundance of a consumer society. Political participation and civil liberties are gradually surrendered. Corporations, hiding behind this smokescreen, devour us from the inside out….'
http://chycho.blogspot.com/2013/12/chris-hedges-introduction-to-inverted.html


Terrorism has raised the level of violence up a notch again. This phenomenon is mimetic and opposes two crusades, two forms of fundamentalism. George W. Bush’s“just war” has revived that of Muhammad, which is more powerful because it is essentially religious. However, Islamism is only one symptom of a trend to violence that is much more global. It comes less from the South than from the West itself because it takes the form of a response of the poor to those who are well-off. It is one of the last metastases of the cancer that has torn the Western world apart. Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West’s wealth. It is a very violent and unpredictable revival of the Conquest, which is all the more terrifying because it has encountered America along the way. The sources of Islamism’s strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole. The reciprocal theologization of war (“Great Satan” versus “the forces of Evil”) is a new phase in the escalation to extremes. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/cosmostheinlost/2015/11/06/girard-islamic-extremism-is-symmetrically-related-to-western-wealth/

Two totalitarian trends.

Rene Girard: Today I think we have two totalitarian groups – one which may have exhausted its possibilities, which is anti-Christian – Naziism. I think the violence of Naziism is – how are we going to get rid of Christianity? Nietzsche
talked about doing it through philosophy, genealogy, showing that the Christians are for victims only for the most vulgar and sinister reasons because they are part of the lower class. The Nazis say, we are more powerful than a poor philosopher that was half mad and we’re going to drown the Christian desire to
vindicate victims [with] such injustice, such destruction that we will prove that the destiny of the world that has been Christian is _______ . You have to regard the open explicit nature of Nazi violence. They didn’t talk about concentration camps during the war because it would have been very bad from a strategic viewpoint, but if they had won the war they would have publicized it and said –
our world has nothing to do with Christianity, we have proved that Christianity cannot do anything in this world. This was an explicit anti-Christian view. I
think there is another totalitarianism which is opposite [which says]: don’t believe that Christianity is defending victims, it just pretends to; it’s nothing but inquisition, terrorism, etc. We’re going to show you how to defend
victims...which is what we see today. An imitation of Christ which is at the same time total betrayal of Christianity...we have to read much of contemporary history in this light. It’s so controversial and potentially explosive it’s very difficult to articulate but I think the signs are converging in that direction.

David C: Today what we call the political correctness is super-Christianity. This super-Christianity that Rene Girard associates with political correctness reduces the world to nothing but victimization, oppression, and the machinations of power. It takes up the Christian concern with victim but abandons Christianity and in particular Christian morality.

around 35:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wimFvlhKQcU

https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/Girard%20Part%205.pdf?token=AWzrzpJx46oHrawBF6xipnPVe09dyIgxbrOA0FRRtfx8KuY1qWHTFA7JNLIQutiQQk-70dgOtw2f5Qp1oLWo8pXBLGbH41pNnxasukBpCnxRm7HDdMsTH8l1i2IpFASwvxrnrIcsOcP41_TRKMQB24vV

Back up from Christopher Lasch 1992...

"Upper-middle-class liberals have mounted a crusade to sanitize American society—to create a 'smoke-free environment,' to censor everything from pornography to 'hate speech,' and at the same time, incongruously, to extend the range of personal choice in matters where most people feel the need for solid moral guidelines.
"When confronted with resistance to these initiatives, members of today's elite betray the venomous hatred that lies not far beneath the smiling face of upper-middle-class benevolence. They find it hard to understand why their hygienic conception of life fails to command universal enthusiasm." Christopher Lasch
http://brandon.multics.org/library/Christopher%20Lasch/lasch1994revolt.html






http://www.zurinstitute.com/sacrifice2.html


http://www.blaisepascal.nl/teksten/girard/c/c2007_Lundquist_Suzanne_paper.htm


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