Vampiric idealism

edited 2012-03-14 21:03:52 in General
Beginning PRESCRIPTIVE 

The question that runs through these brief  disputatio
is the following: Can there be an ontology of ‘blood’ that 
does not immediately become a concern of either Being 
or God? Put differently, if one accepts that the concept 
of ‘blood’ is irreducible to biology, what then is to prevent 
it from becoming reducible to theology? Let us be even 
more particular: To what extent is ‘blood’ as a concept always 
situated between a biology of a non-ontological ‘blood itself’ 
and an onto-theology of the blood-beyond-the-bleeding, or 
‘after-blood’? 

But what comes ‘after blood’? Is it death, decay, and 
decomposition, or is it resurrection and regeneration? Is it, 
in biological terms, the transformation of the living into the 
non-living, from the organic life of molecules to non-organic 
matter? Or does it involve a theological re-vitalization of 
the resurrected, living cadaver?
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Middle DESCRIPTIVE

I have to look in the mirror for some more clues. Nothing is missing. It’s all there. The affectless gaze. The 
diffracted grace …  
The bored languor, the wasted pallor …
The chic freakiness, the basically passive astonishment, the enthralling secret knowledge … 
[T]he chalky, puckish mask, the slightly Slavic look … 
The child-like, gum-chewing naivety […] the shadowy, voyeuristic, sinister aura …
The albino-chalk skin, Parchmentlike. Reptilian. Almost blue …

   His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.

‘ghastly tracks and scars and holes are white on white — white 
on that pale stomach of his. No red welts. Pale, pale as could 
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An ontology of blood

 This also means they can be 
destroyed. But what of the creature that cannot be named, 
or that is named in its unnamability? The unnamable 
creature is also the unthinkable creature. This would be 
the B-horror version of Beckett’s L’innomable. In some cases 
the unnamable creature is without form, the intrusion of 
a raging, inverted hylomorphism. Cold War films such as 
The Blob and Caltiki the Immortal Monster exist in a state of 
oozing, abject, borderlessness. In other cases the unnamable 
creature is without matter, existing as pure (demonic) spirit, 
an inverted theophany. 


The decadence of immortality

In the face of these implacable enemies, these blood-fiends, only one sentiment may be expressed.










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