aohsu

@aohsusometimesy

Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.

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aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 6d

Just learned the existence of Sonnet #135, and am embarrassed to admit I’m so blueskypilled it made me immediately think of tfw Stancil dominates the Discourse

From poetry dot com:

Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will, And Will to boot, and Will in overplus;
More than enough am I that vex thee still, To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in
thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still, And in abundance addeth to his store;
So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will One will of mine, to make thy large Will
more.
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one Will.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 7d

Sometimes I don’t believe Canada is a real place

• Entering the Konami Code on the Bank of Canada's website for the commemorative $10 bill plays a chiptune version of the Canadian national anthem and drops commemorative $10 notes. 40]

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 8d

AP called it (9:59 EDT) so now it's "close and called"

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 8d

Is "too close to call" an accurate headline if other outlets are literally calling it? (maybe they're wrong -- what mitigates against publishing a headline "Nearly all of the votes counted, El-Sayed is ahead by a smidge"?)

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 8d

Thanks to at least two of you who recommended checking this Brinkley Messick book from the early nineties out. Extremely my jam. Nice intro to Yemen and Islamic legal anthropology, as well as explaining how text, writing, voice work across multiple scales and genres.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 11d

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 15d

p. 13-4

The Sanitation Labor Castes
To speak of caste is to conjure a babel of discourses all at once. The English word routinely translates two distinct concepts present in Sanskrit and the vernacular languages—varṇa, the four ranked classes or “colors” of brahman, kshatriya, vaishya, and shudra that together constitute the social organism

in conceptualizations of society from the Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda onward, and jāti, meaning species (cognate, in fact, with the Latin “genus”), the multitudinous endogamous hereditary groups that regulate reproduction and set the terms of interaction in actual social life. At the same time caste also conveys the early modern European ideology of blood purity encoded in its own Iberian etymology, as reflected in the application of casta (related to “chaste”) to social groups in New Spain as well as in Portuguese Goa. British imperialism decisively influenced the history of European representations of Indian society, fashioning caste into a trope, a sign of India’s difference from the West, a ready justification of the “rule of colonial difference” (Chatterjee 1993: 18) that has cast a long shadow over popular and scholarly discussions of the social form (Appadurai 1988; Dirks 2001). Yet the critical historicization of the European trope of caste does not preclude analysis of the social form— caste qua jāti—that, in places like Lucknow, continues to exert profound and far-reaching influence over collective life, from sex and diet to political representation and waste management. Though related in complicated ways, the two are distinct intellectual projects, oriented, as it were, toward different “castes.”

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 15d

Sorkin definitely wrote this into life. Is it funny? Perhaps unintentionally. Is it tragic? Also differently to his intentions

Elias Isquith skeet from earlier today: I’m Jordan Peterson. I’m jk Rowling. I’m Ross douthat. And I’m Mr beast. This is 60 minutes.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 22d

I read Zola’s _Attack on the Mill, and Other Stories_ this week. Even though the editor/translator faintly praises the stories (not as “good” as the best of the Rougon-Macquart, “only” written for money), I still found them interesting.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 22d

why did they do this to my rougon-macquart? slop before slop

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 23d

making up a guy (made up of other guys) to get mad at: who wore it better

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· 27d

One of the two volumes is Teltumbde/Yengde, _The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections_ (2018). One theme the authors in the volume reflect on is how "America," or maybe just the idea of it, formed a kind of horizon for Ambedkar's political imagination, for solving Indian problems.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jul 12

Read my first Rorty. Banger written at the End of History (1989). Cover makes me laugh. Very Brechtian.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 26

Good morning from the Vatican. We got in line early to see St Peter’s but the Pope needed the space so we have to wait two hours. www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

Asian man with Vatican statues bathed in beautiful morning sunlight behind him

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 19

From 2230 to 2300 in the streets of Lausanne every car horn was blaring

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 18

The two genders

Yellow text painted on a Swiss garbage can: “belle poubelle / beau soleil”

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 18

"karma" again in a wikipedia plot recap -- Rulfo's _Pedro Páramo_

It's suggested that Juan goes to Comala to redeem their parents' sins and to aid some of the spirits that live there reach redemption. He is born with the karma of being Pedro's son, and as we progressively see in the plot, there is a deeply rooted cultural belief (based on a mixture of indigenous spirituality and catholic religious ideals) that involves paying for one's sins whether while alive or in the afterlife. We can witness this when the mud lady spirit watches Juan shiver on the floor and says to her brother:" look at him, he must be paying some deaths". Suggesting Karma passed on from his dad. Pedro assassinated several individuals throughout the play. In fact, Juan hears and eventually sees some of the people his father killed.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 17

Maybe “French Tacos”

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 14

I’m an American on holiday in Europe and I can confirm this

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 13

Seen in Geneva earlier this week. Hope it works.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 11

Learning about Australia

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 11

Toddlers don’t care about religion or politics. They don’t care that the author of _Daniel Deronda_ and translator of Feuerbach lived here. They care about pushing the button on the elevator and buying salami from the grocery store (ie, modernity)

George Eliot commemorative plaque in the old city

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 11

Europeans are weirdly into animorphs

Poster at the int museum of the reformation: “from Luther to Luther King.” On an image of Luther “animorphing” into King.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 11

Anti-anti immigration vote poster: Swiss society depicted as a cartoon iceberg where the above water portion in color looks like a tourist brochure and the black and white below water portion features builders, carers, and cleaners.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy· Jun 11

I think JJ’s little island where the lake flows into the Rhone is pictured in the No G7 poster in the last post. Went to pay homage with toddler in tow.