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About
The evolution of this blog goes back to a post at Der Unbuddhist which in itself was an evolution of a discussion/struggle which found its end in a thread at the blog Speculative Non-Buddhism. The...
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Desire: Hindrance or Motorforce?
In his heuristic Glenn Wallis suggests that one way of testing xbuddhist postulates is to bring them into proximity with examples of modern/postmodern thought; with proximity critical thought is able...
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The Buddha as counter-evolutionary
In The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (Yale U.P., 2012), Donald S. Lopez, Jr. investigates the past century and a half of how the West invents a Buddha in its own image with typical...
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Marxism and Non-Buddhism; the spectre that still haunts!
Something needs to be said about the relationship between a critique of x-buddhist perspectives and the value of meditative experience and the ideas that revolve around it; the former explores how...
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The Theory of "Religious Needs"
Reblogged from Richard K. Payne: In the field of religious studies, one can frequently encounter the idea of "religious needs." That is, the idea that there are certain needs that all people share...
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The Duality of the Personal and the Political
We are all familiar with the kind of Buddhist morality that condones saying and doing nothing in the name of “right speech” or “equanimity” or some other such principle that seeks to elevate...
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The xBuddhist body: Blissful or Mutilated?
The following is another juxtaposition of a text by Massamino Passamani and a text from the current edition of Shambala Sun. We think about our bodies all the time. How do they look? What is their...
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Session #01
Some points which have to be discussed E. L. Kirchner: Bogenschützen. Date 1935-37. Kirchner killed himself this day 75 years ago. Authors. I invited 20 people as authors. 8 responded and are free now...
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To be, or not to be…an x-Buddhist? Buddhemes and charism
This post is slightly longer than I would have liked because I need to begin by explaining briefly my position to this project. I feel it necessary to lay out my priorities here so that the direction...
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X-Buddhism: Transcendental Truth or Colonial Invention?
The fundamental x-buddhist presupposition is that there exists, secreted within the innumerable historical transformations and cultural adaptations to which Buddhism has been subject, an unblemished...
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No wind but lots to drink & think
I just want to let you know that I am drifting through the summer doldrums with no land in sight (and no Hegel on board) but enough to drink to keep me alive. So it will take a while before I make...
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The about page
As suggested by Fionnchu, I have made a start on the About page by putting together some material from previous comment treads and supplementing it with new writing. I hope you will each contribute...
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Critical thoughts on meditation, Literature and the Capitalist Subject
This post is a response to Alan Seltzer’s post’ ‘More Walls: Contemplations of Samual Beckett and Herman Melvilie’ on SNB and the comment tread that followed. It started as a comment but never got...
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About Meditation
I have been working for a while on a post about meditation. What might be described as sitting alongside ones bodily experience. Meditation as a pared down encounter with momentary experience. A...
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Session #02
Hi everybody. Back from the summer holidays I have to ask myself – once again – where and with what topics to spend my time? This blog has been opened with the idea that it could be a collective...
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Critical Thinking as Spiritual practice
Perhaps we ought to relearn how to enrage ourselves, to explode against a certain culture of docility, of amenity,of the effacement of all conflict even as we live in a state of permanent war. It is...
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‘Cruel Theory/Sublime Practice’ reviewed
Cruel Theory/ Sublime Practice: Toward a Revaluation of Buddhism. By Glenn Wallis, Tom Pepper, and Matthias Steingass. Roskilde, Denmark: EyeCorner Press, 2013, 211 pages, ISBN 978-87-92633-23-1...
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Is Speculative Non-Buddhism a form of spiritual Xanax
My claim would be that Buddhism is an unusual human practice in that it attempts to do both, to discover the truth AND to facilitate the production of a better ideology based on a correct...
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How to eXplode x-Buddhism; part 1
Intro This is the first part of a three-piece mini series about Where to! It is a short assessment of recent developments around non-buddhism. The second part will be primarily a sketch of the Critique...
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Foreclosed to thought: Althusser and the subject
Louis Althusser Intro This post is part one of a three part series exploring questions we have, until now, only touched on here. It regards the non-buddhist project as, in essence, the application...
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