Antonio Damasio (Looking for Spinoza) shows, to simplify, the material neuronal causes of such feelings as empathy in the brain. Catherine Malabou goes further. She invents in The New Wounded, self-consciously, the philosophical concept of “cerebrality” to provide an aetiology for psychic events. She cites the argument of Bruno Bettelheim

Learning to kill Is a matter of momentum It starts small And then it comes Patrols every night In the casbah of Nablus Hey, what here is ours And what is yours At first just a drill A rifle’s butt bangs on the door Children in shock A family

– via Alan Sondheim, posted by Richard Silverstein here וידאו קליפ חדש לשיר הנושא מתוך האלבום של יזהר אשדות, “עניין של הרגל”. מילים: אלונה קמחי, לחן: יזהר אשדות, עיבוד: יזהר אשדות ומשה לוי עיצוב ובימוי: יזהר אשדות ויהודה דרי Press the red button on the screen for English subtitles English translation

relations are irreducible to their termspure relationality as the infinitely small (machine or combine) which tends to irreducibility – the infinite within the finite – where there is no same only differencebeauty as the pure transmissability of the beautiful presents the machinic workings of the schematism – the absolute is in actual things