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February 1, 2012
January 27, 2012
"To go to work or come home, one takes a “metaphor”—a bus or a train. Stories could also take this noble name: every day, they traverse and organize places; they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them. They are spatial trajectories."
— Michel De Certeau
January 26, 2012
artistic envy. treetop turntable.
January 26, 2012
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January 25, 2012
the act of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language and the statements uttered.
De Certeau, On Walking
January 24, 2012
They will tell us we are un-American. But when conservative fundamentalists tell you that America is a Christian nation, remember what Christianity is: the Holy Spirit, the free egalitarian community of believers united by love. We here are the Holy Spirit, while on Wall Street they are pagans worshipping false idols.
Actual Politics: Slavoj Zizek’s collected occupy sayings.
January 22, 2012
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Wounded is the Wounding Heart
Leave her alone the Flaming Heart.
Leave her that; and thou shalt leave her
Not one loose shaft but Love’s whole quiver.
For in Love’s field was never found
A nobler weapon than a wound.
Love’s passives are his activ’st part.
The wounded is the wounding heart.
O heart! the equal poise of love’s both parts,
Big alike with wounds and darts.
- Richard Crashaw, from The Flaming Heart
circa 1648
January 22, 2012
"New media, like the computer technology on which it relies, races simultaneously towards the future and the past, towards what we might call the bleeding edge of obsolescence. Indeed, rather than asking, What is new media? we might want to ask what seem to be the more important questions: what was new media? and what will it be? To some extent the phenomenon stems from the modifier new: to call something new is to ensure that it will one day be old. The slipperiness of new media—the difficulty of engaging it in the present—is also linked to the speed of its dissemination. Neither the aging nor the speed of the digital, however, explains how or why it has become the new or why the yesterday and tomorrow of new media are often the same thing."
— Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
January 22, 2012
"Ritual and Ceremonial things move not God, but they exalt that Devotion, and they conserve that Order, which does move him."
— John Donne (via triadic)
(via michaelfunderburk)
January 22, 2012
"The poem, as always, precedes our progress. But perhaps our progress made the poem possible, by one of those roundabout ways spawned by the wiles of history. In any case, we have indeed arrived at that expanse that no longer speaks to us, lies mute, and where the wanderer, if always possessed by the same cry, no longer has anything to ‘say’ but the ‘lie’ of an image. He no longer seeks a place in which to become lost, for he is lost everywhere. The task of isolating, from a particular life, the form of that experience that remains mystic, leads us to renew our inquiry on the status of the body, which is lacking here. We must then move through mystics once more, no longer exploring the language it invents but the ‘body’ that speaks therein: the social (or political) body, the lived (erotic and/or pathological) body, the scriptural body (like a biblical tattoo), the narrative body (a tale of passion), the poetic body (the ‘glorious body’)."
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Oh my de Certeau,
The Mystic Fable
January 19, 2012
"All at once this text is no longer one of those intended to teach us something and to vanish as soon as that something is understood; its effect is to make us live a different life, breath according to this second life; and it implies a state or a world in which the objects and being found there, or rather their images, have other freedoms and other ties than those in the practical world …. all this gives us the idea of an enchanted nature, subjected as by a spell to the whims, the magic, and the powers of language."
— Valery, on poetry
January 19, 2012
"All new technologies develop within a background of tacit understanding of human nature and human work. The use of technology in turn leads to fundamental changes in what we do, and ultimately what it is to be human. We encounter deep questions of design when we recognize that in designing tools we are designing ways of being."
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Understanding Computers and Cognition,
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
January 17, 2012
"In suggesting that many modernist texts are shot through with and even shaped by spiritual concerns, I mean several things: that they make room in the worlds they project for magic, miracle, metaphysical systems of retribution and restoration; that they explore fundamental issues of conduct in ways that honor, interrogate, and revise religious categories and prescriptions; that their political analyses and prescriptions are intermittently but powerfully framed in terms of magical or religious conceptions of power. But I means as well, that their assaults on realism, their ontological playfulness, and their experiments in the sublime represent a complex and variously inflected reaffirmation of premodern ontologies-contructions of reality that portray the quotidian world as but one dimension of a multidimensional cosmos, or as a hosting world of spirits. I am arguing, then, that some of the very features of fiction which secular theorists have singled out as definitively postmodern must at least in some cases be understood in terms of a post-secular project of resacralization. But at the same time, I will argue, this process of resacralization can only be understood, in its historical specificity, with the help of secular theorists who have ignored it."
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John A. McClure,
“Postmodern/Post-Secular: Contemporary Fiction and Spirituality”
January 14, 2012
"TRANSPARENCY IS THE GAUGE OF ALL VALUE WHEN CUTTING WHEN WRITING
A DIAMOND IS AN ABSENCE OF NOTHING BUT DARKNESS"
A DIAMOND IS AN ABSENCE OF NOTHING BUT DARKNESS"
— Christian Bök, from Crystallography (via minisoap)
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