reading list for a future historiography of vibes
read the biography of Goethe, read his Theory of Colour and then Sorrows, read the biography of Schopenhauer by the same guy who wrote the one about Goethe, read Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour, read a book about women spiritualist painters that I ordered to the library, read about Hilma and Emma Kunz, read about witches and healers and mystics and herbalism, (pause to drink a shot of chartreuse), read about monastic communalism, read about birth control, remember reading Spiritual Midwifery and wishing the book was about nuns, read something Maggie Nelson said about imperialism and other Enlightenment ideas failing, so (she says) we are turning to the philosophies of outcasts, German weirdos who relied on perception (vibes) rather than observation to embrace an altogether unknown realm. And once I’m done reading all of that, I will finally write an essay, the essay that touches the zeitgest, not just grazes the contour of that fickle ghost, but penetrates it. I will fuck the zeitgeist with a historiography of vibes.
Hildegard von Bingen. The same as the composer I learned about ages ago in Music History class?