--- "Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears." - Pauline Oliveros --- THEORY/FICTION: Benjamin Klug, "Kin of the Cosmos"Doron Darnov, "Review of Navigating the Planetary (H. Amanshauser and K. Bradley, eds.)"Kaitlin Moore, "A blank canvas, a painter's brush: Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Games’s Transistor … Continue reading Stratum 9
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“… they experience a delightful feeling of exhilaration”
--- “There are some minds which can go on contemplating with satisfaction pure quantities presented to the eye by symbols, and to the mind in a form which none but mathematicians can conceive. There are others who feel more enjoyment in following geometrical forms, which they draw on paper, or build up in the empty … Continue reading “… they experience a delightful feeling of exhilaration”
“… and a meadow is here, and, at the same time, in the cosmos!”
--- "I looked at the flowers at my feet, that grew up amidst the grim and innocent weeds: I was like them, the ones incredulous at death, and destined to a life of just a few days. Little flowers without names: unnamed, and so many, one equal to the other, scattered by chance along the … Continue reading “… and a meadow is here, and, at the same time, in the cosmos!”
“Though I never recorded the frogs …”
--- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/po-alien-bog-1967-excerpt.mp3 Pauline Oliveros: Alien Bog, 1967 (excerpt) * "Though I never recorded the frogs I was of course influenced by their music." (Pauline Oliveros)
Deep Blue
--- Deep Blue A film by Sebastian Wiedemann Springs and Apneas between Worlds to resist and re-exist the Pandemic. * There is a tradition of cinema that was born with Jean Painleve and asks to continue by other means. Immersing yourself in order to perceive. To make the invisible visible. Faced with the pregnant image … Continue reading Deep Blue
From Magnetic Adventures
--- ∞ "From Magnetic Adventures" (pdf) - Joseph Donahue, 2021 Joseph Donahue's most recent volumes of poetry are Wind Maps I-VII (Talisman 2018), and The Disappearance of Fate, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). He is the co-translator of First Mountain, by Zhang Er. With Edward Foster he edited The World in Time and Space:Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000 (Talisman, … Continue reading From Magnetic Adventures
‘…alternately Stone in you, and Star…’
--- '...alternately Stone in you, and Star...' Ed Keller, 2021: https://thermalhowl.bandcamp.com/album/alternately-stone-in-you-and-star --- 'The individual is the seat of a continual process of decantation-decantation from the vessel containing fluid of future time, sluggish, pale and monochrome-to the vessel containing the fluid of past time, agitated and multicolored by the phenomena of its hours.' Beckett ‘From such … Continue reading ‘…alternately Stone in you, and Star…’
The Community of Strangers
--- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/the-community-of-strangers-communication-4.mp3 ∞ "The Community of Strangers (Communication, 4)" - Cindy Terrafere, 2021 Cindy Terrafere is an independent scholar and poet based in Vancouver. Co-founder of the Center for Alien Studies, she works on a collective book entitled: Critique of Astronomical Reason.
A day that has everything
--- ∞ "A Day That Has Everything (the Alienocene Cut)": a performance by Metheor Director: Ani Vaseva Theory: Boyan Manchev Music: Christophe Petchanatz / Klimperei With Leonid Yovchev, Greta Gicheva, Katrin Metodieva, Monika Vakarelova, Elina Karastoyanova, Budin Karastoyanov and Diana. A day that has everything. A day when anything can happen – this is how … Continue reading A day that has everything
Épistémologie des Bribes
https://videopress.com/v/W4zUqBg6?preloadContent=metadata ∞ "Epistémologie des Bribes" - Dalie Giroux, 2021 Epistemology of Scraps 1) Scraps: a small, detached piece; fragments of discarded or leftover food. Figuratively: a fragment of something written or spoken, of a memory. The opposite of totality. In French, “bribes”: crusts of bread given to a beggar, superficial knowledge. Derived from “briba”: mischief, … Continue reading Épistémologie des Bribes
