Throwing this out there: In Grant Morrison's take, Batman and the Joker can be seen as manifestions of fluid mode in benevolent and malevolent aspects.
cc: @Meaningness
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Replying to @St_Rev
I haven’t seen the movie (and won’t) so I’ll have to respond to the underlying question instead. I read _Arkham Asylum_ when it came out. I was still a graduate student, in the hand-cranked computer era, so my memory is … nearly null
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Replying to @Meaningness
Comment was inspired by your RT but not about the movie. Mostly about Morrison's 2000-2009 work on the character, which is, of course, obscure. There were plot elements hinging on Batman having studied Dzogchen.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
I guess to expand a bit, Joker can be seen as malevolent fluidity more or less through the character's history; Batman as benevolent fluidity is more about Morrison's particular take.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
In Arkham Asylum Morrison was mostly working through a Hermetic framework. 20 years later, though...
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Pedantic footnote no one should care about: what Grant Morrison describes here sounds more like “the purification of the lokas,” which is part of the Dzogchen ngöndro (preliminary practices), than like tögal.
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I can't remember the correct form of the dancing bear/singing pig proverb here, the one that ends 'what's impressive is that it does it at all'
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Yes, absolutely. It’s not seriously inaccurate, as that blog post noted.
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