Comments on: DANTE & DIVINE COMEDY of EXILE /2010/02/dante-divine-comedy-of-exile/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.11 By: Dave /2010/02/dante-divine-comedy-of-exile/#comment-498 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:56:18 +0000 /?p=8657#comment-498 Thanks again for the comment. The idea of religion as a ”thing” is certainly interesting. A ”gaze” a ”look” and a brand so to speak. And not as a ”constraint” becoming a condition for Giotto for radical emancipation as Deleuze put it.Best

]]> By: mason mckibben /2010/02/dante-divine-comedy-of-exile/#comment-497 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:50:09 +0000 /?p=8657#comment-497 Very interesting take on Virgil and Ginsberg via mylogic guy and WC Williams. I have been thinking about religion, faith, thought and action much recently due to your series and the recent issue of Lapham’s Quarterly on Religion. Also there have been a few personal digressions, one of which led me to link a friend to three different utube versions of Elvis Costello’s “God’s Comic.” Similarly, at least since Christopher Hitchen’s famous pronouncements re religion, the culture seems stuck or fixated on religion even as a thing. How difficult, Lapham suggests, despite his relatively areligious orientation, to really get one’s mind around the words or proposition, “G-d is dead!” The whole thing begs a sort of Freudian return of the repressed, which is it’s own problem.

Personally, religion is largely a system of shorthand for major themes and how i access/organise them at any given moment. When a symbol changes i try to maintain a history of the nature of and the reason for that change. At any given time or circumstance we make our observations, poetically or scientifically etc & then walk on.

Thanks for the stroll Dave!

-mason

]]> By: Mark Lukas /2010/02/dante-divine-comedy-of-exile/#comment-496 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:41:09 +0000 /?p=8657#comment-496 There is a fine line between the ability to build the concept and reality. Scientists in this respect more fortunate.

Mark.

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