Monthly Archives: November 2017
scratch from start (1) @german_sierra
“The day after D.B. phoned, a blue bird crashed against the window of my living room and broke its neck and left a grey ghost’s kiss shadow print with red […]
time will take you out
george tooker’s subway
and implements of destruction
Neil Postman on Cyberspace ’95
The disintegration has already begun: Austerity politics at the end of Europe.
Jenny Holzer’s Truisms
if only…
A Policeman with a new piece of technology -William Gibson @GreatDismal
“People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.” W.G.
Postcapitalist Fictions
via Postcapitalist Fictions
community of hope -pj harvey
Zanele Muholi’s Sebenzile
The Two Desk Problem
Originally posted on Quantum Est In Rebus Inane:
Wittgenstein’s parables, like Jesus’, have a peculiar power to capsize thought, to overturn it even as it sails its trade routes. His…
Man with a Movie Camera ’29
The Ghost of Cognition Past, or Thinking Like An Algorithm
“One of many things I love about writing—that is, engaging in writing as an activity—is how it facilitates a discovery of connections between otherwise unrelated things. Writing reveals and even […]
Cortez by Jimmie Durham
accepting that side-effects & errors are endemic
Watching the Detectives
Originally posted on andy merrifield:
There’s awe-inspiring immensity down there. I’m looking out over Mexico City, from thirty-six floors up in the sky, a recumbent giant right before me, shimmering…
Mnestic Pressure
Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind & the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/americanstudies/083americanstudieschaney.mp3 http://newbooksnetwork.com/anthony-chaney-runaway-gregory-bateson-the-double-bind-and-the-rise-of-ecological-consciousness-unc-press-2017/