T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets
Eliot reading 'Burnt Norton' (what's that noise?-version)
18 Jun 2008
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Crossing The Immanent in Secular Culture (Thought - Music)
Transcendentalism Today
Intellectually, our times are haunted by a false opposition: we're offered the choice between religious transcendence and the liberal culture of immanence. As such, on the one hand, the transgression of immanence from within is made suspect in favour a religious communitarianism; on the other hand, the idea of transcendence is refuted as part of a backward religious metaphysics.
This site looks for places in contemporary culture which open up a domain of transcendence within immanence (some kind of 'introscendence'). The metaphysics involved can be purely secular, for the nexus is the human subject as transcendental, as split between the phenomenal realm of the particular and the noumenal realm of the universal. Next to the exploration of these cultural sites, I will also focus explicitly on epistemological and philosophical-antropological topics, for I do not believe that both spheres (of the concrete-existential and the abstract-philosophical) can be fully separated (although they have indeed their own method and logic).
This site looks for places in contemporary culture which open up a domain of transcendence within immanence (some kind of 'introscendence'). The metaphysics involved can be purely secular, for the nexus is the human subject as transcendental, as split between the phenomenal realm of the particular and the noumenal realm of the universal. Next to the exploration of these cultural sites, I will also focus explicitly on epistemological and philosophical-antropological topics, for I do not believe that both spheres (of the concrete-existential and the abstract-philosophical) can be fully separated (although they have indeed their own method and logic).
Music - Recent Revelations
- Alexander Turnquist - Faint at the Loudest Hour
- Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light
- Rivercrest - Etherische Chemie
- Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
- Suishou No Fune - the Shining Star
- Ultralyd - Conditions for a Piece of Music
- Tarentel - Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun 1-4
- Zu & Spaceways Inc. - Radiale
- Earth - the Bee made Honey in the Lion's Skull
- Hilmar Jensson's Tyft - Meg Nem Sa
- Terry Riley - Atlantis Nath
- Territory 6 & Fred Anderson - Collide
- Susan Alcorn - and i await..the resurrection of the pedal steel guitar
- Nels Cline - Interstellar Space Revisited
- Joshua Burkett - Where's my Hat?
Links - Music
- Dusted Magazine
- Brainwashed
- Kraak
- Motel de Moka
- Kranky
- Head Heritage (Julian Cope)
- Young God Records
- Ecstatic Peace
- Wholly Other
- Holy Mountain
- Neurot Recordings
- Aurora Borealis
- Important Records
- Foxy Digitalis
- New Albion
- Family Vineyard
- Raven Sings the Blues
- The Wire
- Touch
- Ideologic
- Drag City
- Southern Lord
- Pichtfork
- Conspiracy Records
Links - Philosophy/Theology
- Kant Blog
- New Existentialism (Dutch)
- Self and World (German Idealism)
- Perverse Egalitarianism
- Facts and Ideas
- Continental Philosophy
- Projekt Enlightenment
- Indie Faith
- International Journal of Žižek Studies
- Jan van Eyck Academie
- Je est un autre
- Ballardian
- The Accursed Share
- Philosophy Conferences
- Larval Subjects
About Me
- tom jacobs
- PhD Student