From: Laurie Colson <lauriecolson-AT-yahoo.com>
Date: 25 Feb 2010 01:08:07 UTC   (05:08:07 PM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>

www.youtube.com/watch
Yep, thank you Vikki, it was you first introduced me to the term 'plasitic' in art; a year ago?(at the time I thought you were referencing The Graduate!)   And much more. Plus, you toured with Metallica! Rockin the song "One" rightnow.
 German Idealism, don't see the situation, surrealism lightly slacking, existentialism for me, have you seen the Seroquel ER commercial? Existential Noir.  Malcolm De Chazel's flower metaphors are a little silly.. is that what's meant by aphorisms? You remind me of the Penelope episode in Ulysses! There, I said it.

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Vikki Riley <riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

From: Vikki Riley <riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Malcolm De Chazal and Mr Vaneigem (Vikki)
To: "Situationist" <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 5:45 AM

revolution of everday life aphorisms...its obvious
Vikki

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Free Mod <freemod-AT-free.fr> wrote:
>
> No sherif for me, no eggs on your face
> just wonder: where is the Vaneigem similitude in this mauritian author?
>
> FM
>
>
>
> Il giorno 24/feb/2010, alle ore 11.37, Vikki Riley ha scritto:
>
>> FM
>> Love the Rosicrucian connection. Yes it is in French, but he still
>> would have spoken Creole like all Mauritians. The inflection is clear
>> in the language of his work. I speak/understand a lot of it. Have
>> lived with a Mauritian now, on and off for 7 years. We got a lot of
>> them here in Australie.
>>
>> A Sherif you may be but this aint no episode of Bonanza.
>> We say "The Jacks" or mor pertinent, "The pigs"
>>
>> Vikki,
>> no egg on my face just sharing the wonders of Chezal, you connect the
>> dots.......
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Free Mod <freemod-AT-free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902- 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. He was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French. All his works are in french! His parents were both french people who moved in Mauritius and belonging in a family of mystics. One of his ancestors, François de Chazal of Genesté, was Rosicrucian, at the end of the 18th century. Himself had a vision of the world very impressed of mysticism and certainly influenced by the formation received at the Church of the New Jerusalem which follows the principles of the thought of Emanuel Swedenborg.... Swedenborg! My god! We were complaining for the german names and the obscure heideggerean language on a SI list and now we stumble across the sweden father of north european mysticism !?
>>>
>>> Now Vikki I am not playing at the check point sherif nor trying to embargo your proposals, but please could you tell us where are the situationist or the Vaneigem vibes that you found in this author? Might they be noticed in their I-Ching similitude?
>>>
>>> with a pinch of humor,
>>> FM
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno 23/feb/2010, alle ore 23.47, Vikki Riley ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> FM
>>>> Not aware of Chezal being in Paris, he was native of Moris, Port Louis..
>>>> Creole Francais is a bona fide language, Haiti would have the most
>>>> speakers I guess.
>>>> Vikki
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Free Mod <freemod-AT-free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jesus... a book in creole? I didn't know it. What a patriot.
>>>>> But he was in Paris at the time, why to write in creole?
>>>>> Who read it in the original language? 4, 5 guys? His cleaning woman?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I was right to get a glimpse of surrealist drops in this author.
>>>>> I want to deepen him, well done Mme Riley. How is Australia these days?
>>>>> I would go crazy to visit that continent, who knows... one day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>> d
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Il giorno 23/feb/2010, alle ore 08.32, Vikki Riley ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> FM, Richard and all the gang,
>>>>>> SENS PLASTIQUE is a very important book for the way it posits itself
>>>>>> between Surrealism (Victor Segalen "The Other", Andre Breton and
>>>>>> sensations, eroticism) and the lead up to the SI.
>>>>>> Of course because Chezal was from Mauritius the original is in Creole,
>>>>>> itself a post colonial melange of language and appropriation. This
>>>>>> book is very much on par with psycho geographical ideas of the SI.
>>>>>> I'm sure it is not hard to find a copy. It can be used like the I Ching
>>>>>> Vikki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Free Mod <freemod-AT-free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Vikki, thanx a lot
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Malcolm De Chazal is amazing, not exactly "interesting"... to a certain extent his work falls within positions of naturalistic pantheism and humanism, from Goethe to Spinoza. I am sorry for recalling german authors 'de nuevo'... ha haa aaah By the way, Richard and me did not quote a sentence by Heidegger in the previous thread, but I see that the german prof may be not stimulating and I keep on seeing the great distance to situationist discoursive order and language.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By the way, I want to say that in Malcolm De Chazal work I see less situationism than in Heidegger's reflections. Some surrealistic drops?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>>>> FM
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> «My philosophical position in this work derives from the principle that man and nature are entirely continuous, and that all parts of the human body and all expressions of the human face, including their feelings, can actually be discerned in plants, flowers, and fruits, and to an even greater extent in our other selves, animals. And although minerals are usually considered inanimate, death-like rather than life-like, I would have them also tend towards that supreme synthesis, the human form, especially when they are in motion. Man was made in the image of God, but beyond that I declare that Nature was made in the image of man.» (Malcolm De Chazal)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Il giorno 22/feb/2010, alle ore 03.41, Vikki Riley ha scritto:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> tout:
>>>>>>>> sorry spelling mistake, chazal not chezal, see below, referring to the
>>>>>>>> great book "sens plastique"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Malcolm De Chazal (1902-1981)
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