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Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
ISSUE #013 - HERRI
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theory
"The crisis continues..."
Title from the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, No Ghosts, Max Lury, Peninsula Press, London, 2026, p. 343 (all subsequent references to this edition)
Going from the end of the second of two posts dealing with crystal images, the first about their weirdness, the second about them as an effect of cinematic perception, both
IT IS WHAT IT IS: recognition in cinema and AI is automated
The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2
Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1
the painter of mental scenery
AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns
journal
“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk
... which is strange because this morning I was thinking exactly the same thing. However the thought is bluntly disputed by Brittany Allen. In her squib on Rachel Cusk's Life of M, more than likely about Natalie Portman, Allen writes, "Yet those are people, in her pages."
Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images
"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"
อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach
Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga
เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta
กระบี่, Krabi
poetry
August 2026
how can such sheer physical beauty
be guarded , coupled with so crabbed and servile an existence ,
as to hunt in the rubbish dumps of all the world
for what has been used up and most despoiled
for cracked and injured minds,
to its own injury and the injury of its
SYMPHONY
Political Works
moieties*
A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents
enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance
a journey (2016)
otherwriting
I Am Out of Control of My Own Material
Charles Stivale, a scholar I admire and to whom I have been grateful on more than one occasion (not least for sending me his recently published book, On Painting, 2025, a translation of Deleuze's 1981 seminars), graciously read my "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure
The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity
correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."
progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination
simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency
contempt
