January 2011
Watchscryberspace:
“Angels and Bits,” featuring Fred Astaire, telegraphs, telephones, and the world wide interwebs.
John Dee thinks of calligraphy as the record of the hand’s movement. And as the stroke is the record of the hand, so the dance is the record of the body. These gestures are less about communication itself, and more about conducting it with flair.
Your questions concern both embodiment...
from Of Being Numerous
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There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.
Occurrence, a part Of an infinite series,
The sad marvels;
Of this was told A tale of our wickedness. It is not our wickedness.
‘You remember that old town we went to, and we sat in the ruined window, and we tried to imagine that we belonged to those times—It is dead and it is not dead, and you cannot imagine either its...
My post at Thought Catalog: "Regarding Photos of... →
There’s a higher than usual probability that I’m wrong about this, so any feedback is appreciated:
“They’re a species of webcam photo. The light is a little hyperreal, all LED-blue and sharp. Like webcam photos, they appear a little bit voyeuristic, always ‘candid.’ Maybe this feeling is just because I grew up watching grainy women take off their clothes on...
velveteenrabbit:
silencekit:
“Chinatown”- Do...
leggette asked: Found this today, thought you might appreciate it!: http://asymptotejournal.tumblr.com/
"Panaché Fort," or: On the Subject of Growing Up
…The text of an email I recently sent to some friends from college, slightly annotated for your benefit:
There comes a time in a young man’s life when his liver gets so scarred up from binge drinking that sometimes when he wakes up in the morning his eyes are a little bit yellow. We call this “adulthood” and it means he has to, at least, disguise his depravity by using...
Thom Yorke - After The Gold Rush (Neil Young...
My post at Thought Catalog: "The Times I’ve Made... →
“…2. Only a few weeks later and the teaching job is compounding my already poor health. I develop an ulcer, which I don’t realize till I’m driving around with friends one afternoon and I end up on my knees out the passenger door, puking blood onto clumpy grass and cracked concrete at the side of a suburban road. My friends, being good friends, crank the music to drown out my...
Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its... →
“Your brain is electric. Tiny impulses constantly race among billions of interconnected neurons, generating an electric field that surrounds the brain like an invisible cloud. A new study published online July 15 in Neuron suggests that the brain’s electric field is not a passive by-product of its neural activity, as scientists once thought. The field may actively help regulate how the...
Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its... →
“Your brain is electric. Tiny impulses constantly race among billions of interconnected neurons, generating an electric field that surrounds the brain like an invisible cloud. A new study published online July 15 in Neuron suggests that the brain’s electric field is not a passive by-product of its neural activity, as scientists once thought. The field may actively help regulate how the...
What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Magic
“…What I’m suggesting is that feng shui and an awful lot of other things are precisely of that kind of problem. There are all sorts of things we know how to do, but don’t necessarily know what we do, we just do them. Go back to the issue of how you figure out how a room or a house should be designed, and instead...
What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Magic
“…What I’m suggesting is that feng shui and an awful lot of other things are precisely of that kind of problem. There are all sorts of things we know how to do, but don’t necessarily know what we do, we just do them. Go back to the issue of how you figure out how a room or a house should be designed, and instead...
"...a ritual future..."
“…she made herself the sign of an old pact, a ritual future, your very lens — Fate, in fact.”
— Charles O. Hartman, from “Moira”
“In Seicento Rome, Holy Week witnessed the full panoply of musical expression, from chant through polyphony to monody. The long, anaphoric calls of the ‘lamentamini’ with which the oratorio ends linked a...
"...a ritual future..."
“…she made herself the sign of an old pact, a ritual future, your very lens — Fate, in fact.”
— Charles O. Hartman, from “Moira”
“In Seicento Rome, Holy Week witnessed the full panoply of musical expression, from chant through polyphony to monody. The long, anaphoric calls of the ‘lamentamini’ with which the oratorio ends linked a...
Super Furry Animals - Alternate Route to Vulcan...
The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling... →
“…Two big shows in the U.S.: Congress is in session, and the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show is under way. It’s debatable which of these two should or will get the most attention. Congress is full of Tea Party newbies all full of worldchanging piss and vinegar, convinced that they can fix government by pruning budgets and programs, not quite realizing yet how constrained is...
The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling... →
“…Two big shows in the U.S.: Congress is in session, and the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show is under way. It’s debatable which of these two should or will get the most attention. Congress is full of Tea Party newbies all full of worldchanging piss and vinegar, convinced that they can fix government by pruning budgets and programs, not quite realizing yet how constrained is...
Being Out of Time
msodradek:
Why does time stand eternally still and motionless in one place, and rush headlong by in another? Could we not claim, said Austerlitz, that time itself has been non-concurrent over the centuries and the millennia? It is not so long ago, after all, that it began spreading out over everything. And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by...
Being Out of Time
msodradek:
Why does time stand eternally still and motionless in one place, and rush headlong by in another? Could we not claim, said Austerlitz, that time itself has been non-concurrent over the centuries and the millennia? It is not so long ago, after all, that it began spreading out over everything. And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by...
