Updating Sisyphus

little ear I found it quite fascinating, the similarity of the Dionysus myth and the Jehovah myth. In both, the divine body is torn to pieces and spread all over the world.

little ear One of the main Sisyphean projects of the Jewish people, according to the Lurianic Kabala, is to re-collect the pieces of the divine body, or the sparks, try to separate them from the dirt that had merged with them, and re-assemble the pieces into the original whole. Even though they never succeed in creating the original God they manufacture mutations of God. Some are funny, some monsters, but all fascinating.

little ear The Re-U-Man structure is an attempt to build a protocol that will help me merge the scattered pieces of the "I", the "I" that is torn by late Capitalism, by the old Marxism, by the sham of Modernism, and by the vagueness of Post-Modernism.


little ear It tries to update the Sisyphus myth of Albert Camus, in a world that is even more meaningless than his, but less tragic, less heroic, but more playful. This new updated Sisyphus does not have to carry the enormous boulder up the hill only to have it roll down and then roll it up again. His curse is to re-assemble the fragments of his dispersed body only to have it shattered again over and over ad infinitum.

little ear He does not have the moment of repose while descending the hill, the moment that Camus refers to, as a victory over the gods.

little ear When the new Sisyphus shatters, he begins to re-assemble himself at once. Unlike the old, who uses the same path, the same self and a continuous memory to carry the boulder up the hill, the new one has no choice but to re-create himself differently each time. A process that contains an element of game without a continuous personal history--disconnected fragments of memory. Moreover, while constructing himself, he is creating an imagined model of the original, which he is being constructed accordingly. For the memory of the original had been faded out.

little ear This Sisyphus seeks to create his own self, without hope, without rest, but with a very strong sense of self.

little ear In the Re-U-Man diagram we refer to the first Sisyphus with a capital "I" and to the second with a lower case "i".