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Robert Musils Essay «Das hilflose Europa oder Reise vom hundertsten ins Tausendste» von 1922 als annotierte TEI-Edition. Eigentlich wollte ich das bereits 2022 in ähnlicher Form präsentieren, habe dann aber aus Zeitmangel nur ein rudimentäres XML hinbekommen. Nun habe ich ein bisschen mit Claude gespielt …

https://ottosmops.github.io/Das-hilflose-Europa/

#Musil #KI #TEI #DigitalHumanities

Living without my self
"Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence"
@cultura
#lettetatura #libri #Musil
https://aeon.co/essays/robert-musil-gives-confidence-to-the-no-self-minority-like-me

Robert #Musil, mein #Vater und ich: Wie Musils großer Roman von der #Zerrissenheit unserer Zeit erzählt

https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/04/robert-musil-mein-vater-und-ich-gottfried-boehme-652956
#Rezensionen #Bücher #Essay

Robert #Musil, mein #Vater und ich: Wie Musils großer Roman von der #Zerrissenheit unserer Zeit erzählt

https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/04/robert-musil-mein-vater-und-ich-gottfried-boehme-652956
#Rezensionen #Bücher #Essay

Robert #Musil, mein #Vater und ich: Wie Musils großer Roman von der #Zerrissenheit unserer Zeit erzählt

https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/04/robert-musil-mein-vater-und-ich-gottfried-boehme-652956
#Rezensionen #Bücher #Essay

Wo ich gerade dabei bin: Ich erinnere mich auch an eine Landpartie mit Karl #Corino 1988. Wir hatten in kleimem Kreis einen lustigen und anregenden Abend in einem urigen Landgasthof.
Ihm verdanken wir Robert #Musil. Leben und Werk. Eine tolle Monographie. Die Zeit Ende der 80er war für mich eine intensive, mit vielen Begegnungen, die mich sehr bereichert haben.

su robert walser (interventi e materiali sul sito della radio della svizzera italiana)

https://www.rsi.ch/cultura/letteratura/Robert-Walser-essere-apparire-o-scomparire–3245072.html (Mattia Mantovani)

#Hesse #Joyce #LAssistente #MattiaMantovani #Musil #narrativa #RadioDellaSvizzeraItaliana #RobertWalser #RSIRadioDellaSvizzeraItaliana #scrittura #Walser

Leaving :flag_krd: #Mûsil / #الموصل / #Mosul governate towards :flag_krd: #Hewlêr / #أربيل / #Erbil. This was where the region with high ISIS presence ends with a last military checkpoint before arriving at today's #AzadiRail destination.

Peter Sloterdijk attestiert dem heutigen Europa Schwäche und Realitätsverlust. Ohne ein neues Bewusstsein für seine Eigenschaften drohe ihm Bedeutungslosigkeit. Eine Rezension

Ziehen wir die möglichst konfliktfreie Freizeitgestaltung der Arbeit am Europa von morgen vor? Peter Sloterdijk formuliert diese Diagnose. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften von Peter Sloterdijk)#Europa #Sloterdijk #Musil #Spengler #Abendland #Fanon #Kolonialismus #EuropäischeUnion #EU #Rom #Untergang #Hegel #Geschichtsphilosophie #Kultur #PsychologieHirnforschung
»Der Kontinent ohne Eigenschaften«: Weltgeschichte – in Zukunft ohne Europa?

Lucky day! Found what seems to be the first edition of the American translation of #Musil's "The Confusions of Young #Törless" in an antiquarian bookshop!

Die hybride #Arbeitstagung "Robert #Musil und die Bibel: 'Laientheologie' zwischen #Dichtung und Religion?" findet vom 6. bis 8. November 2023 an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (#uni_klagenfurt) statt.

📌Weitere Informationen + Programm:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/robert-musil-und-die-bibel-laientheologie-zwischen-dichtung-und-religion-klagenfurt/ #LiteratureRegligion @litstudies @germanistik #fidavlnews

"They twist forwards and backwards on their firmly fastened little legs, bend at the knees and strain upward, like laborers doing their utmost to move a much too heavy load."

Robert Musil imagines the hopeless struggle of flies against flypaper, and it's *terrifying*:

https://paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/flypaper-by-robert-musil

#musil #fiction #shortstory #translation #german

Right now, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://pst.cr/dQV18 #wch

In 20 minutes, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://pst.cr/dQV18 #wch

Today, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/musils_stabat_mater_with_kasparkova_balazova_javorsk_and_nosek_from_brno/74896/ #wch

❝The same thing cannot, however, be said about mathematics; for here we have the new method of thought, pure intellect, the very well‑spring of the times, the fons et origo of an unfathomable transformation.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to the ends of the earth; for he no more needs to be capable of applying to his own personal soul what is daring and new in the soul of his subject than a machine is in fact capable of applying to itself the differential calculus on which it is based.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE

Transformations of Discourse • 3
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝The same thing cannot, however, be said about mathematics; for here we have the new method of thought, pure intellect, the very well‑spring of the times, the fons et origo of an unfathomable transformation.❞

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities

#Logic #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#LogicalTransformations #TransformationsOfDiscourse

Transformations of Discourse • 2
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

… ❝for he no more needs to be capable of applying to his own personal soul what is daring and new in the soul of his subject than a machine is in fact capable of applying to itself the differential calculus on which it is based.❞ …

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities

#Logic #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#LogicalTransformations #TransformationsOfDiscourse

Transformations of Discourse
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to the ends of the earth;❞ …

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities

#Logic #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#LogicalTransformations #TransformationsOfDiscourse

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@Harishjosev

❝And if he is told that something is the way it is, then he thinks: Well, it could probably just as easily be some other way. So the sense of possibility might be defined outright as the capacity to think how everything could “just as easily” be, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not.❞

— Robert Musil • The Man Without Qualities
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_4#Analytic_Series_:_Coordinate_Method

#Ashby #Musil #Cybernetics #Constraints
#DifferentialLogic #QualitativeDynamics

Pencil sketch of the great #translator Burton Pike, from a photo I took of him after our 2016 #podcast. He died yesterday (Dec. 22, 2022) at 92. Our conversation is at http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-159-burton-pike if you'd like to listen to it

#books #bookstodon #translation #Musil #RobertMusil #TheManWithoutQualities #art #amateurartist

RIP Burton Pike, #translator of #Musil’s #TheManWithoutQualities. Our 2016 conversation was one of my all-time faves http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-159-burton-pike
#books #bookstodon #translation

I was doing a #Musil #ManWithoutQualities 🧵 every few Chapters on the MuskRat site ( not its most popular 🧵at that), and I'll continue with it here, once in a while...

(III, 16) If only more politicians wrote books (sweating off their excess water), the Balance of Power would be more...balanced I guess

Vor hundert Jahren, 1922, publizierte Robert Musil eine bemerkenswerte Reflexion: «Das hilflose Europa oder vom Hundertsten ins Tausendste». https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45237.18 #musil

#morality and #ethics distinction #musil style?

“In accord with its prescriptive nature, morality is tied to experiences that can be replicated, [...] whereas the
truly ethical experience, such as love, introspection or humility, is, even where it is
of a social nature, something difficult to transmit, something quite personal and
almost antisocial”