-- "To cohabit the earth is prior to any possible community or nation or neighborhood. We might sometimes choose where to live, and who to live by or with, but we cannot choose with whom to cohabit the earth." Judith Butler, Parting Ways THEORY/FICTION: Amanda Boetzkes, "The Cure for Assimilation: Ethics as De-sublimation" Joshua Schuster, … Continue reading Stratum 11
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“The Expanding Universe…”
"The Expanding Universe" (excerpt) - Laurie Spiegel, 1980 - Images: Cindy Terrafere
Stratum 10
--- "Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void/ It is shining." - The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows --- THEORY/FICTION: David Wills, "States of Slate" Emery Jenson, "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" Carlos A. Segovia, "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" Sophie … Continue reading Stratum 10
CONTRAVENING
Stratum 9
--- "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
“… 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)
Stratum 8
--- "...and we might sense the unknown and the route that tempts the traveler to test gravity" - Mahmoud Darwish _________________ THEORY/FICTION: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Planet Does Not Return Our Gaze” Mojca Penca, “Planetary Entanglements and Entrapments (Review of Lukáš Likavčan’s Introduction to Comparative Planetology)" Derek Woods, “The Fungal Kingdom" Sean Singh Matharoo, “The Damned … Continue reading Stratum 8
ALIENOCENE 