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molecular communism

molecular communism

Gareth Simpson, having replied to What Is A Practice? with some great questions, is my interlocutor here. A question put to me by Johannes Birringer in an email (he can let me know whether he minds my using his proper name and I can remove it later) has also prompted

digest

⑥ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

⑥ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

INFINITE REGRESS Once I conceive consciousness in cinematic terms, rather than admit to the mechanism being simply out of reach, it’s easy to picture myself being a passive observer of what passes before me as if on a screen. It is perhaps more desirable but this opens the possibility

⑤ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

⑤ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

④ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

④ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

theory

What Is A Practice?

What Is A Practice?

My thoughts converge on this question because nobody seems to know, least of all those who engage with it professionally—academe has become a club where they congratulate each other on getting in and protest that they should stay. I can say this because I'm not in it.

lectures on moving image: theory | context

lectures on moving image: theory | context

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

journal

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

Democracy, More And Less

Democracy, More And Less

excerpt: Seeing Like a Platform, Petter Törnberg & Justus Uttermark

excerpt: Seeing Like a Platform, Petter Törnberg & Justus Uttermark

To Think Pure Quality and the stupid. A note

To Think Pure Quality and the stupid. A note

Ryunosuke Koiko, sharpen your awareness by focusing on impermanence

Ryunosuke Koiko, sharpen your awareness by focusing on impermanence

What Is A Practice?

What Is A Practice?

poetry

some lines after Jim Moore*

some lines after Jim Moore*

Jim Moore writes, Sometimes the world won’t let itself be sung. Can’t become a poem. And Sometimes, REM sing, everybody hurts and cries sometimes. I know the world is wrong I know sometimes a man is wrong, sings David Byrne, and—Michael Stipe, Hold on Take comfort—whereon

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

The last lecture raises two questions. One of them I hope to have made at least a partial answer to by the end of this lecture. One of them will be left more or less open. The question of the assassination by visual effects, CGI, of film: sounds criminal. But

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4