The Fat Banker notes from a cheese platter somewhere in NYC: He was one of my all time favs, and in my PhD days, long before I even observed he had graced the covers of Said’s “orientalism”, a print of his “Pigmallion and Galeta” used to adorn my hallway – until I got rich enough [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Jean-Léon Gérôme: a bit of a Soof!
Posted in Teaching, tagged Gérôme, orientalism on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Imagination’s Function
Posted in Cosmology on June 25, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Statement: “Imagination exists as a function of colonial power”. The Tailorite Complex responds Quite so, quite so: the term contains within it a whole trace that is inextricably Logocentric (which is basically the Eurocentric powerhouse if you are postcolonial, or the Phallocentric regime if you’re a feminist). But of course — so are the terms [...]
The Tamar Tantra
Posted in Cosmology, Tailorite Tafsir on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The story of Tamar is notable for its theosexual novelty: a tantra of benevolent deception that yields inception through a Truly innovative drama (innovation = role play = changing of clothes, from one garment to another garment). Her Holiness derives Its power from her primordially cosmetic allure. Three brief observations (each in succession falling like [...]
Female Circumcision
Posted in Cosmology on June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What’s your position within the Islamic scholars’ debates on female circumcision? Well, for a start, I can no longer call myself a Muslim or a scholar these days, so I couldn’t position myself in relation to those debates. (They form part of an indigenous Islamic tradition in relation to which we external agents must always [...]
We make our pilgrimage to/through/by means of a structure known as the Cube. It comprises of the following aspects. Six sides: A dialectic of Martyrdom (submission/slavery, oblivion/fana) and Victory (messaging, hearing, rebooting/baqa). These correspond to the down and up of the Cube, respectively. A bidirectional (copredicative) movement out of Love (unity) into Logic (shariah/law/differentiation) and [...]
Western dependencies
Posted in Teaching, The path on June 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
(Postcolonial Theoretic) Question: Why are we still dependent on theories developed in the West, as in by White Europeans? We’ve already provided the answer to that question, in both long and short forms. In the former relation, as a bonus, we revealed who Hajar actually is (and why she’s intrinsic to all postcolonial escape, so [...]
The third term
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The master/slave dialectic is an endless power play that binds us to cycles of illusion, parliaments, revolution fascism, football team tribalism, hatred, violence. But Muhammad was a man who got the dialectic right (sanctified it) by means of a sublime “third term”. In the Prophetic biography, the third term appears as Safiyah, wife/war booty of [...]
Christ, Imperial and Tailorite
Posted in Cosmology on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some notes on religious ritual and Tailorite Christianity. Jewish practice, like Islamic practice, places much emphasis on hygiene, particularly with respect to consumption of food. With the threat of superbugs and the recent outbreak of E Coli in Europe, there’s probably some real practical merit in adopting a spiritually motivated sensitivity toward food and food [...]
Random Hadith Commentary: The Beginning of Creation
Posted in Hadith commentaries on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tailorite Devotional Exercise: clear your mind, open the Sahih Bukhari on a random page and write down what is immediately apparent. Narrated Imran bin Husain: I went to the Prophet and tied my she-camel at the gate. The people of Bani Tamim came to the Prophet who said “O Bani Tamim! Accept the good tidings.” [...]
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