Bahar Orang
Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty
In awe of the subtle placement of items on this list — they lift off and set the mind to roaming and circling back to the ongoing meditation on beauty.
… many kinds of caress, a foothold, a freefall …
And so for day 3072
10.05.2015
José Esteban Muñoz
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
The present must be known in relation to the alternative temporal and spatial maps provided by a perception of past and future affective worlds.
Look both ways before plunging…
And so for day 3071
09.05.2015
From a novella about travel and destiny.
I shut my eyes and prayed to the Seven. I wanted to ask, “Why did you let this happen?” but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.
The injunction makes perfect sense in the circumstance: needing to concentrate on survival. But at the level of story generation it’s crucial (after discovering what is really happening): when will you become a person who can ask why?
Nnedi Okorafor
Binti
And so for day 3069
07.05.2015
McKenzie Wark “Battle (on Rez)” Gamer Theory Paragraph [127]
The brightly colored shapes that flare at you may look vaguely menacing or brightly friendly. The whole thing is meant to simulate the experience of a nightclub more than a war. This, together with the curious trigger action, highlights the act of targeting rather than the target itself. There is some vaguely sci-fi storyline about why one targets and shoots, but is rather minimal and sketchy. It’s not clear at first just what role the story plays.
Being lost is not losing.
And so for day 3068
06.05.2015
Sometimes a single circle is a place with power. Makes me think that Venn diagrams do not take into account the fishbowl effect i.e. there are people watching. You may be in a circle of one but observed by others who are connected to others. The set is not the network.
And so for day 3067
05.05.2015
Julian Wolfreys
Deconstruction · Derrida
Enlightenment allows us to see where we are, but not where we may be going; illumination reveals to us that we are in the dark.
The parallelism becomes silent: even with illumination we may not know.
And so for day 3066
04.05.2015
Jennifer LoveGrove
The Tinder Sonnets
These are little machines for transposition and mutation. For example: “You were last online twelve minutes ago” shifts its place in next iteration and then in the third : “You were last online twelve mirrors / ago.”
And more magic… from the same sonnet sequence:
“Last online two minutes ago.”
“You were / last online two manifestoes ago.”
The line breaks shape the displacements: you were ago.
And so for day 3065
03.05.2015
Is she in the dream or outside the dream singing?
The hunter thought; after a while his thoughts changed to dreams, and his mother was singing to him.
The Animal Family
Randall Jarrell
And so for day 3064
02.05.2015
Catherine Belsey
Critical Practice
1980
social formation vs society — as terms page 5
Ideology, in Althusser’s use of the term, works in conjunction with political practice and economic practice to constitute the social formation, a formulation which promotes a more complex and radical analysis of social relations that the familiar term ‘society’, which often evokes either a single homogenous mass, or alternatively a loosely connected group of autonomous individuals, and thus offers no challenge to the assumptions of common sense.
And so for day 3063
01.05.2015
