Aleatory Odysseus, THAT FOOL!
Aleatory: dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome.
Odysseus began his voyage seeking a return home. But the odyssey took him into the very depths of his own personal constitution. The desire for the alterity, the home, structure, the essence leads him into the de-structured, the difference, constantly in a battle between chance and fate. Or was it the fate of chance? Constantly the gods act to determine his every motion, his ships course, and their outcome, yet as much of a pawn Odysseus was of the gods, the gods were pawns of him. The subject is both the object, the moved the mover, the teacher as the student. As they gambled and wrestled amongst each other, the 'fates' of his crew were over-determined. The sirens, cyclops, They transcend any notion of free will or reductionist determinism, the gods were as pawns in the game as they were movers. The parable to be learned, the gods negate themselves by their alleged presence. For it was Poseidon who became a mortal Odysseus who would become eternal. To drink from Dionysus' cup!
Allegorical Reference:
the gods = essence, theoretical determination.
mortal = the static, immovable, reduced to a mono-thematic abstraction.
eternal = not in the theological, essential sense, but rather the suggestion that one is nothing, living in the present, constantly becoming and adapting to the situation.
Odysseus began his voyage seeking a return home. But the odyssey took him into the very depths of his own personal constitution. The desire for the alterity, the home, structure, the essence leads him into the de-structured, the difference, constantly in a battle between chance and fate. Or was it the fate of chance? Constantly the gods act to determine his every motion, his ships course, and their outcome, yet as much of a pawn Odysseus was of the gods, the gods were pawns of him. The subject is both the object, the moved the mover, the teacher as the student. As they gambled and wrestled amongst each other, the 'fates' of his crew were over-determined. The sirens, cyclops, They transcend any notion of free will or reductionist determinism, the gods were as pawns in the game as they were movers. The parable to be learned, the gods negate themselves by their alleged presence. For it was Poseidon who became a mortal Odysseus who would become eternal. To drink from Dionysus' cup!
Allegorical Reference:
the gods = essence, theoretical determination.
mortal = the static, immovable, reduced to a mono-thematic abstraction.
eternal = not in the theological, essential sense, but rather the suggestion that one is nothing, living in the present, constantly becoming and adapting to the situation.
posted by matt at 6:11 PM
2 Comments:
some sort of lame ass gods, can't do anything right. that sounds pretty accurate. HAIL ZEUS.
i would write something more clever and ranty about the odyssey, but i put it all in a paper. and honestly it was a few years ago, so i don't remember much. anyways, sorry to disappoint. i'll look over that paper though and see if it sparks anything.
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