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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:29:49 -0400

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Habit

Sun, 27 May 2012 03:06:38 -0400

Our freedom, in the very movements by which it is affirmed, creates the growing habits that will stifle it if it fails to renew itself by a constant effort : it is dogged by automatism. The most living thought becomes frigid in the formula that expresses it. The word turns against the idea. The letter kills the spirit.

-Bergson

tenderly

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:42:55 -0400

tenderly

house

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:40:59 -0400

house

judytheparty: JUDY SAILS AWAY SATURDAY MAY 19TH

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:17:59 -0400

judytheparty:

JUDY SAILS AWAY SATURDAY MAY 19TH

Photo

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:23:15 -0500

The Palliative of the Empirical

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:01:19 -0500

The empirical, with its entropic geometry of plane surfaces and perspectival depths, with its closed forms and stable objects, is but a phase shift in this perpetual event of experience’s self-renewing passage. Empirical grounding-the entropy, closure, and stability of formed perception- is provisional, but a beat in a rhythm. Its solidity is continually moved, removed, and refreshed by iterations of force.

Invisible force. Newton did not see gravity. He felt its effect: a pain in the head. The newly visioned blind do not see things. They feel a pain in their eyes. “He could not distinguish objects. The pain produced by the light forced him to close the eye immediately.” The forced opening of sense experience can only figure at first as unlocalized, unspecified pain. “She couldn’t even be positive these strange new sensations were coming through her eyes.” With more experience, the feeling of the effect comes to be identified. Reactions in different sense modes are cross-referenced. Through that cross-referencing, the feeling is consistently indexed to what have become recognizable regions of experience. The regions are distributed on either side of an inside/outside divide. The effect is now perceived as the result of localizable interactions between formed organs and objects. The experience has been determined, objectified, empiricized. Only now that it has become determinately intermodal is it experienced as a sight. The passage into empirical appearance coincides with an integration/differentiation of sense modes. With that passage, and that determination, the pain is (provisionally) assuaged.

Assuaged: the empirical is a palliative. Objects are anesthetic specifications of the growth pain of perception’s passing into and out of itself. The anesthetic is the perceived, us distinguished from the perceiving: objects passing into empirical existence, sensation passing out of itself into that objectivity. Perceived objects are side-effects of the appearing of force, by-products of its quelling. Side-effects: because the force of emergence also continues, along with and past the empirical, into simultaneous and repeated self-abstraction from it. The “pain” also continues: simultaneous and bifurcating paths of perception’s passing. If the empirical is the anesthetic, then the pain accompanying perception’s passing forcefully into itself and continuing superempirically in flight from its objective quelling-what can this be but the aesthetic?

The pain is the beauty (of the world emergent).

-Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual 160-1

2011

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:32:52 -0500

What I like about Susan Miller is when she tells me exactly what I was already thinking:

From January 22 on, your social life will quiet down and not be as active as it has been over the past year. At that time, Jupiter will enter Aries and will ready you for your big moment coming when Jupiter moves into Taurus on June 4, 2011, to stay a year until June 12, 2012. This is a big moment to anticipate, for clearly you are about to enter a golden phase, and it will be one of the most important and beneficial phases of your life. We only get about seven or eight visits of Jupiter in our own sign in a lifetime, and you are coming up on one of those rare seasons later this year.

With Jupiter moving into the last sign, Aries, before it visits yours, you may now start to see many elements of your old life fade away. Do not be concerned when this happens. At the end of any big cycle, the major planet involved sees to it that outworn elements of your life fade away so that you can enjoy new opportunities. If you didn’t unload things, the universe would not be able to give you anything new - there would be no room for the new! Life is a continual process of change - letting go of all that is no longer vital to you and sowing new seeds for the future. This happens to all of us, no matter how old we happen to be. You will benefit from this energy, dear Taurus - trust in that!

http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/monthly/taurus_full.php

"The question is not to fight against the categories but rather to ask: ‘Is the category..."

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:15:36 -0500

“The question is not to fight against the categories but rather to ask: ‘Is the category subjecting or subjectifying you?’… freedom is getting out of bad bondage, not an absence of bonds”

- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social

THE FUTURE

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:46:15 -0500

THE FUTURE

Howto: Rip a song from SoundCloud

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:50:06 -0400

Howto: Rip a song from SoundCloud

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:38:40 -0400

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:35:00 -0400

Thinking about Ari Up. Here is a picture of a show she did in...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:03:35 -0400

Thinking about Ari Up.

Here is a picture of a show she did in NYC in 2002 with Dez of Black Flag on guitar, where she asked the Radical Cheerleaders to dance on stage during her set. I’m the blond.

http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/universe.inside/untitled__outside_002.gif http://francoisegam...

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:29:33 -0400

http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/universe.inside/untitled__outside_002.gif

Photo

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:37:32 -0400

Photo

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:36:28 -0400

My week in pictures: Antony Hegarty (from The Guardian)

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:57:54 -0400

My week in pictures: Antony Hegarty (from The Guardian)

"There is a certain hubris to the notion that a mere academic writer is actually inventing. But the..."

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:36:49 -0400

“There is a certain hubris to the notion that a mere academic writer is actually inventing. But the hubris is more than tempered by the self-evident modesty of the returns. So why not hang up the hat of critical self-seriousness, set aside the intemperate arrogance of debunking- and enjoy? If you don’t enjoy concepts and writing and don’t feel that when you write you are adding something to the world, if only the enjoyment itself, and that by adding that ounce of positive experience to the world you are affirming it, celebrating its potential, tending its growth, in however small a way, however really abstractly- well, just hang it up.”

- B. Massumi, Parables for the Virtual

I tend to brag about my bed. It’s not a fancy bed, but the layers of padding I have blended...

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:49:00 -0400

I tend to brag about my bed. It’s not a fancy bed, but the layers of padding I have blended over the years and these nice thin, soft sheets (switched out with a big, fluffy duvet in a couple of months) have added up to what I think is really an extremely pleasant sleeping experience.

But I need new pillows. I am at a loss, however. I don’t even really understand what I want in a pillow- hard, soft, large, small, down, foam, I don’t understand. What I really want is a pillow that is ready to have a relationship with my neck. I want pillows to come round courting my neck, pillows that are ready to explain to my father why they are worthy of my neck.

I’m really drawn to these pregnancy pillows, might get one.

http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Pregnancy-Alignment-Shoulders-Support/dp/B002YZEQ72/ref=sr_1_16?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1285621924&sr=1-16