-- -- Sometimes a sound represents a whole era / Sometimes a sound represents a whole people. Nicole Mitchell, "A Sound" --- THEORY/FICTION: Phillip John Usher, "On the Exterranean" Esther Leslie, "Messianic Rays in the Atomic Age: Walter Benjamin in the Presence of Radioactivity" Jessica Lehman, "Beneath the Paving Stones, the Wake" Aaryn Smith, "Mapping the … Continue reading Stratum 4
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First Woman
--- ∞ Eve Libertine, "First Woman" (Penny Rimbaud, Acts of Love, 1984) ---
Nobody Knows What Communism Is
--- ∞ Marguerite Duras, "Nobody Knows What Communism Is" (1969) "Jacques Chancel: What is communism for you? Marguerite Duras: It's the end of what you see around you: now, here, everywhere. I don't know what it is otherwise. Jacques Chancel: But do you admit that there are people who think differently than you? Marguerite … Continue reading Nobody Knows What Communism Is
STRATUM 3
--- --- We did not seek the formula for overturning the world in books, but in wandering. Ceaselessly drifting for days on end, none resembling the one before. Guy Debord, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni --- THEORY/FICTION: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Two Perspectives on Colonial Time” Augustin Berque, “Can We Overcome Modernity’s Acosmia?” Sarah Ann Wells, … Continue reading STRATUM 3
Mineral Kingdom
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Earthlight
--- Plates from THE MOON: CONSIDERED AS A PLANET, A WORLD, AND A SATELLITE by JAMES NASMYTH 1885 "Hindered by early photography’s technical limitations, Nasmyth was unable to take close-up photographs of the moon. Instead, he collaborated with astronomer James Carpenter to create and photograph a series of hand-made plaster models … Continue reading Earthlight
Theoria, Journey, Alterity
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STRATUM 2
--- --- What sacred games shall we have to invent? - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science THEORY/FICTION: Dan Mellamphy, "A lienOcene" Michel Cassé, "Dreaming in the Large Magellanic Cloud" Barbara Glowczewski, "Infra-Terrestrial Journey with the Aboriginal Spirits of the Earth" Augustin Berque, “Recosmicizing the Earth” Boyan Manchev, "Clouds. Onto-Meteorology and the Philosophical Fantastic" Drew Burk, … Continue reading STRATUM 2
The Tides Present a Striking Paradox
Martian is Just a Word for X
∞ Jack Spicer, Vancouver Lecture 1 - June 13, 1965
