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a delightfully civilised facebook conversation with some scared white...
Image: Francesco Nassimbeni It’s quite fascinating to watch how unwilling most white people are to listen to people talking about experiences that differ from their own. For example, in a conversation...
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“the mirror in the ground” book launch and exhibition
Happening next Thursday, 14 May 2015, this book launch and exhibition promises to be well worth attending. I’ve read parts of the manuscript for the book, and it deals with the topics of western...
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henk oosterling on science, myth, and deleuze and guattari’s dogon egg
Originally published in: “Oedipus and the Dogon: Myth of Modernity interrogated” in: H. Kimmerle (ed.). I, We and Body. Amsterdam 1989, p.27-45. Dogon egg Let’s return to our initial question: does...
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last night, just down the road
I will never forget this. HERE are photos by a friend, Eva Grosso, who has a far better camera than mine. Try to imagine each image continuing 360 degrees around you and above you. Utterly...
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weightless scene from tarkovsky’s “solaris” (1972)
Watch the whole of this incredible film online, free, HERE.Filed under: film, love, memory, science, uncanny Tagged: desire, gravity and grace, science fiction, self, solaris, subconscious, tarkovsky
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unholy ghosts
Modernity was built upon ‘technologies that made us all ghosts’, and postmodernity could be defined as the succumbing of historical time to the spectral time of recording devices. Postmodernity screens...
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princess chelsea – we’re so lost
From the album The Great Cybernetic Depression, out on New Zealand label Lil’ Chief. Video made by SKYRANCH: Director – Simon Ward Camera – Liam Bachler VFX – Luke Rowell, Kenny Smith and Simon Ward...
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princess chelsea – we are strangers
from The Great Cybernetic Depression (Lil’ Chief, 2015).Filed under: music, science, spirit Tagged: alienation, mediation, princess chelsea
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leon redbone – shine on, harvest moon
“The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see, ‘cos the moon refused to shine… ” From Double Time (1978).Filed under: music, science, uncanny Tagged: blood moon, harvest moon, leon redbone, lunar...
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edge of wrong workshop at sacm – lunch today
All welcome!Filed under: music, science Tagged: arnfinn killingtveit, edge of wrong, experimental, improvisation, noise
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eno on medium-specific materiality
Filed under: art, embodiment, film, history, music, philosophy, photography, science Tagged: brian eno, immanence, media, recording, threshold, transcendence
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simone weil – intelligence and grace
We know by means of our intelligence that what the intelligence does not comprehend is more real than what it does comprehend. Faith is the experience that intelligence is enlightened by love. Only,...
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simone weil – algebra
Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization. Complete analogy. Algebra and money are essentially levellers, the first intellectually, the second effectively. About fifty...
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“the widow’s jar”– an automaton by thomas kuntz (2016)
The most wondrous stuff regularly comes up in my feeds, as if in direct response to my posts, but not – here’s an example. If it’s all coincidence, I’m very lucky. Check out Thomas Kuntz’s site for...
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first sounds – humanity’s first recordings of its own voice (1857- )
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was the first person to record his voice and send it into the future. David Giovannoni recounts how First Sounds discovered and played back these recordings 150 years...
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if we burn there is ash (7 september 2016)
If we burn there is ash an exhibition by Talya Lubinsky with Meghan Judge, Tshegofatso Mabaso and Thandiwe Msebenzi Opening night performances by Healer Oran and Lebohang Masango __ On Christmas Eve of...
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donna haraway – anthropocene, capitalocene, cthulucene: staying with the...
Sympoiesis, not autopoiesis, threads the string figure game played by Terran critters. Always many-stranded, SF is spun from science fact, speculative fabulation, science fiction, and, in French, soin...
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louis moholo’s 4blokes, live at straight no chaser, cape town (15 january 2016)
It’s weird how the recording industry warps experience. We can sometimes forget that every recording is only one iteration that was captured and set in stone as “The” Definitive Performance, when...
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for whom the bell curve tolls
“No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as...
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italo calvino – the distance of the moon (1965)
‘Like many a critical humanist before him, from Michel de Montaigne to Jonathan Swift, Calvino seems to wonder if our best intellectual efforts, even the sciences, fall subject to “the foibles and...
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brian kane – sound unseen – acousmatic sound in theory and practice (2016)
Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms,...
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the brain that wouldn’t die (joseph green, 1962)
Alive… without a body… fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!Filed under: embodiment, film, love, science, uncanny, violence Tagged: decapitation, disembodiment, horror, Joseph Green,...
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steve cutts – are you lost in the world like me? (2016)
Another one of Steve Cutts’ dystopian cartoons is HERE.Filed under: art, embodiment, freedom, music, philosophy, politics, science Tagged: animation, disembodiment, facebook, likes, Moby, pokemon go,...
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manifold – edge of wrong 12 (2017)
Manifold is an audiovisual artwork made for the 2017 Edge of Wrong festival. Lidar scans/concept: Jason Stapleton Audio: Justin Allart Editing: Lucy HazardFiled under: environment, film, music,...
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xenofeminism: a politics for alienation – laboria cuboniks (2015)
Laboria Cuboniks (b. 2014) is a xenofeminist collective, spread across five countries and three continents. She seeks to dismantle gender, destroy ‘the family,’ and do away with nature as a guarantor...
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omd – the romance of the telescope (1983)
Filed under: music, philosophy, politics, science Tagged: Dazzle Ships, OMD, surveillance, telescope
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Profundity from a computer voice reading Bob Dylan lyrics.
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Business As Usual After Marikana – edited volume (2018)
The mining industry has always been the backbone of the South African economy, and it still is. A healthy and sustainable mining sector should accordingly form part of the focus of our efforts to heal...
View Articlebig thief – ufof (2019)
‘UFOF’ by Big Thief, from the new album ‘U.F.O.F.’, released May 3rd on 4AD. Available to pre-order and pre-save here. To my UFO friend Goodbye, goodbye Like a seed in the wind She’s taking up root in...
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