-- -- 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
Category: Sound & Vision
If Whenever
--- "If Whenever (Alienocene Version)" - Franck C. Yeznikian, 2019 Franck Christoph Yeznikian was born on 22 May 1969 in Besançon (France). After beginning in post-punk music as a drummer, he explored other musical universes, especially acousmatic music, which he studied with Denis Dufour and Jean-Marc Duchenne at the conservatory of music in Lyon. Shortly thereafter he had the … Continue reading If Whenever
INLAND LAKE
--- “Photographs of notebooks, manuscripts ... My first notebook, a small one, with a black leather cover, was offered to me by my friend photographer Bruno Roche in 1988. I then opted for the registry type of notebook, large size (21/29,7cm, between 100 and 200 pages), and I started, little by little, a journal that … Continue reading INLAND LAKE
Commonly Owned Unconsciousness
--- Bill B. Wintermute, "Commonly Owned Unconsciousness" (2019) "...OK, let's see... I guess that I'm confused again. Am I here, or am I there? I don't know. Over there, I'm everywhere. I know that. But here is connected to over there. Is that right? But then, where is the real me after all is said … Continue reading Commonly Owned Unconsciousness
Views through a Kaleidophone
--- In 1827 British scientist and inventor Charles Wheatstone published the results of some of his earliest studies in the transmission of sound. Familiar with the work of Ernst Chladni who in 1787 methodically demonstrated and documented the symmetrical patterns of sound vibration on bowed metal plates and with similar studies of wave motion in … Continue reading Views through a Kaleidophone
DOME – Our Relationship with the Cosmos
--- ∞ "DOME – Our Relationship with the Cosmos" (pdf) - Frank J. Schäpel, 2019 Frank J. Schäpel is an artist and UFO researcher based in Berlin. In 2002 he finished his studies at the University of the Arts Berlin in the class of Baselitz. Since then he worked with scientists in projects regarding anatomy, … Continue reading DOME – Our Relationship with the Cosmos
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
Three Poems from The Disappearance of Fate
--- ∞ "Three poems from The Disappearance of Fate" (pdf) - Joseph Donahue (2018) Joseph Donahue's most recent book of poems is Wind Maps I-VII, forthcoming from Talisman House. Other recent titles include Dark Church (Verge Books) and Red Square on a Black Field (Black Square Editions). In 2019 Verge with bring out Musica Callada, the … Continue reading Three Poems from The Disappearance of Fate
A ROBOTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE UNIVERSE
-He: First, there was less than nothing. -She: Then, nothing. -He: Then, something. -She: The universe began with a contraction. -He: Big crush came first. -She: Then, and only then, everything exploded. -- *** -She: I cannot read. Try to get closer. -He: If I continue, we – we will crash into it. -She: Stop, … Continue reading A ROBOTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE UNIVERSE
Ascent in Free Fall
--- ∞ "Ascent in Free Fall - Reflections on "Nostalgia for the Light"" (pdf) - Frédéric Neyrat, 2018 Translation: Lia Swope Mitchell Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Planetary Humanities at UW-Madison (USA). He is editor of Alienocene and a member of the editorial board of the journals Lignes and Multitudes. He recently published Echapper à l’Horreur: … Continue reading Ascent in Free Fall
