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preface §13
monochromatic formalism: this expansion has not come about through one and the same principle spontaneously assuming different shapes but rather through shapeless repetition of one and the same formula, only externally applied to diverse materials, thereby obtaining merely a boring show of diversity
being-in-and-for-itself must be *for itself* too, not just __for us__
gotta love making the familiar strange
§32 is great for "the tremendous power of the negative". analysis breaks up the familiar into thoughts which are themselves familiar but what is separated is the essential negative moment.
holding onto dead intert objects requires strength (eg. positivism). beauty lacks strength and hates understanding (eg. esotericism). spirit doesnt shrink from death but devastates itself and maintains itself through this process of dismembering analysis
i think really this is what is at stake with my recent turning away from this "let's get lost" mindset. that yes for a long time i was too determinate, too fixed, i needed to think myself out of my time and place. but what i failed to recognize (and probably couldn't have recognized until going
through it painfully) was that escape from determinateness and understanding was just that negative moment but wasn't the last word. yes i was overwhelmed with assertions and bad dismemberments and impositions of legibility for others. but just rejecting those doesn't move you anywhere by itself,
it's just pure resistance. historically necessary resistance that i now feel ready to supersede, which is why this is an apt time to return to hegel
gonna take a break again. preface, §33
ah yes 33 talks about the need for what i described above a bit. but its kinda dancing between conceptions in a way that my (eg.s) were too fixed about i think
as in there are specific moments and processes of defamiliarization and refamiliarization that you can't really characterize some way of thinking of as a whole, it might contextually be one or the other
the one thing thats kinda sticking with me is philosophy as activity, like its not just that i have been rusty or out of practice but like, there was a kind of dogmatism to my thought that became fixed and uncontextual, continually rolled out, and the more it was repeated the more untrue it became
using buzzwords like this is very goofy nooby undergradcore but its useful to invoke an immediate sense of what im reading yknow