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Episode 109: Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse

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Occupy and Practice Divination

divination is neither merely ludic nor simply perverse, unless playful, polymorphous perversity defines existence as such. The ethics of the logic of sense could then be read no longer as a logic of perversion, but as a survival mandate. And i always thought that was interesting, that line, occupy and practise divination e as an injunction for the modern who wants to survive. It's also the connection of these mundane aspects of our lives with this vast pattern which we feel close to in casting the yarrow sticks or the or the coins when we're divining.

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