Journal of the First Outernational
--- 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
--- 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" (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
--- --- 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" (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
-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 - 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
-- ∞ "The Black Screen (Cinetract 032)" - Frank Smith (2018) -- Frank Smith is a writer/poet, video artist and filmmaker. He lives in Paris and Los Angeles. He is represented by the Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva. More about Frank Smith's cinetracts. Books: • Guantanamo • Katrina - Isle de Jean Charles, Lousiane • … Continue reading The Black Screen (Cinetract 032)
--- --- 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 … Continue reading STRATUM 2
∞ "Coupling" (pdf) - Rosmarie Waldrop, 2018 Rosmarie Waldrop's recent poetry books are Gap Gardening: Selected Poems, Driven to Abstraction, and Curves to the Apple (New Directions). ---- Other books: The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger, 1972 The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body, 1978 When They Have Senses, 1980 Nothing Has Changed, 1981 Streets Enough to … Continue reading Coupling
