You can go in, you can go out, but you cannot go back in: Part Dui

I have recently learned to fully appreciate the intent of the idea of no re-entry (as listed as the title of this and Shalini's prior post) as an individual presently at the recieveing end of a less than friendly stomach bug. Keeping in jive with issues of movement, I picked up Wayne Franklin's Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. All the talk of reality lately has also gotten me excited, so I've ordered Zizek's Plague of Fantasies (and some Borges fiction). I've been looking some scattered Zizek writings... In Welcome to the Desert of the Real Zizek talks about Reality, 9/11, Stalinism, and Snuff films and Art, and a critique of huntington's "clash of civilizations" (I'd recommend Said's lecture of the same topic, you can find it in parts on youtube) among other things. I find the discussion of cutting interesting in relationship to CarianaCarianne's themes of body and reality.

At one point, Zizek talks about freedom in relationship to the "free world." I recently found myself, in bed and ill, doing some light reading on string theory-- and one of the most interesting parts I encountered is "degrees of freedom"... by which freedom is established primarily by the boundaries that define it. This has changed the way I've been thinking about "freedom..." and it might do more of us good to get a little more familiar with quantum physics.

I also picked up Jean Beaudrillard's The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact, which I'm presently reading and will let you know how it goes.