Author Archives: dmf
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/
Dennis Banks RIP
The Luminous Excercise @enzagarcia
“The only thing I’ve done since I can remember is talking to myself. That’s my paranormal phenomenon. It is like praying, at least, to say that these ruins are mine. […]
Edmund Berger :: Underground Streams. A Micro-History of Hyperstition & Esoteric Resistance
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
various versions available from our comrades @ http://obsoletecapitalism.blogspot.com/2017/10/edmund-berger-underground-streams-micro.html
lygia clark’s dialogo oculos
People . Are . Not . Strange . Coats
Spaces of Otherwise
Originally posted on dpr-barcelona:
Dear neighbor in Catalonia: “throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.” ― Friedrich…
a very short intro to afro-pessimism
Originally posted on THE UNDERBELLI:
This is an introduction written to preface a new book, Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction, put out by Racked & Dispatched. Check out that site for more…
Blade Runner is 2017?
Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
? “‘Blade Runner’s’ chillingly prescient vision of the future” offers a (brief) review of the 1982 Ridley Scott film and how much 2017 appears…
Bleak Theory (By Paul J. Ennis)
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtumTVHRcQ In the beginning there was nothing and it has been getting steadily worse ever since. You might know this, and yet repress it.…
Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)
here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]
synthetic zerØ 
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