Here is a talk given in London by a couple of academics. It coincides with our understanding of the Mi’raj (in the post below) via pop culture, continuous mathematics, psychoanalysis and constructive logic.
Archive for July, 2009
The Mi’raj, the Real and the Symbolic
Posted in Cosmology, tagged Deleuze, Islam, Lacan, Mi'raj, Sufism, symbolic functions, the real, the symbolic, topologies on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The molecular and the molar
Posted in Cosmology on July 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My use of molar here is borrowed from Chemistry. I use it purely metaphorically and self-indulgently. In Chemistry, moles are used to measure something that is unmeasurable — or, more correctly, something that is so small that it is molecular and hence beyond our ordinary sense of weight. So whenever I say “molar” (as I [...]
All systems
Posted in Love poems, tagged Islam, suficore on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New song by Kazakh-London Suficore group the Friends of Design. Lyrics by this metalogical tailor of good garments. For more music, see the Friends website: http://www.myspace.com/friendsofdesign Stay tuned for their debut album, to be released this year by Fernmind Unilectic
Three orders of existence
Posted in Cosmology, tagged ego, imaginary, Lacan, real, subjectivity, symbolic on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Let me tell you of the three orders of existence: the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. The Real is actual reality, whatever that might be, unfiltered by our perception, unfiltered by our language, our existence, our journey as a process of signification. While our experience of reality is filtered through perception, filtered through linguistic [...]
Come, Sufis!
Posted in Love poems, tagged Sufism on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Come, Sufis! You who rightly fear the dangers of negotiation your Islamic lineage, your bayah to the master exteriorized Recreate that past, magnificently sunnahed through it, my American friends of design! Come, you Sufis, you wine-tasters, you aeon of shapes,
Faith and judgement
Posted in Prophetology, The path, tagged faith on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is Faith exactly? I will defer to others in their discussion of its innateness or revelation and instead attempt to present my view of Faith’s ontological status in relation to our journey. First, I assert that all signs defer to Absolute Alterity — the Beloved Other. All signs — that is, everything in the [...]
The Garden Party (Part I): The Three Questions of Prophecy
Posted in Hadith commentaries, tagged bukhari, child, discharge, father, mother, progressive islam, resemblance, Sufism on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Professor and Builder had come for a barbeque, held at the house of their mutual friend, the Geography student (or rather, Geography doctorate, as he had recently passed his PhD in that subject at the Professor’s college). The Geographer possessed an multiplicitous network of muslims of all backgrounds — from those who identified with [...]
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