On the Unspeakable

I stood on a lofty mountain and saw a gigantic man, and another,...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:59:45 -0400

I stood on a lofty mountain and saw a gigantic man, and another, a dwarf; and I heard as it were a voice of thunder, and drew nigh for to hear; and He spake unto me and said: I am thou, and thou art I; and wheresoever thou mayest be I am there. In all am I scattered, and whensoever thou willest, thou gatherest Me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.

—From the Gospel of Eve, quoted by Epiphanius, Hæres., xxvi. 3. as found in The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

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twinreversedarterialperfusion — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:25 -0400

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twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:51:00 -0400

theuniverseworks: Gary Weber on NonDual Awakening: Obstacles,...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:06 -0400

theuniverseworks:

Gary Weber on NonDual Awakening: Obstacles, Tactics, Misconceptions and Delights

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:23:48 -0400

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)

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twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:18:36 -0400

triplecanopy: Join us Sunday, May 19th for a...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:14:03 -0400

triplecanopy:

Join us Sunday, May 19th for a Speculations discussion about the uses and abuses of the future with Samuel Delany and Kelly Link.

Samuel Delany is the acclaimed author of science-fiction novels including Dhalgren and Babel-17. Kelly Link coedits Small Beer Press and has written three collections of fantastic short stories, most recently Pretty Monsters.

This conversation is part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is____”) as part of MoMA PS1’s EXPO 1: New York.

Tickets are available!

View the full Speculations schedule here.

MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City

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twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:19 -0400

ChanceRaps.com

Schizophrenia and The Book of Changes by Philip K. Dick

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:23 -0400

In many species of life forms, such as the grazing animals, a newborn individual is more or less thrust out into the koinos kosmos (the shared world) immediately. For a lamb or a pony, the idios kosmos (the personal world) ceases when the first light hits his eyes—but a human child, at birth, still has years of a kind of semireal existence ahead of him: semireal in the sense that until he is fifteen or sixteen years old he is able to some degree to remain not thoroughly born, not entirely on his own; fragments of the idios kosmos remain, and not all or even very much of the koinos kosmos has been forced onto him as yet. The full burden of the koinos kosmos does not weigh until what is delightfully referred to as “psychosexual maturity” strikes, which means those lovely days during high school epiotmized by asking that cute girl in the row ahead of you if she’d like to go get a soda after school, and she saying “NO”. That’s it. The koinos kosmos has set in. Prepare, young man, for a long winter. Much more—and worse—lie ahead.

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:54:21 -0400

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on March 7. That’s when I opened my e-mail to find a huge, processor-choking file of charts and raw data from a laboratory located at the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of a new citizen-science initiative called the American Gut project, the lab sequenced my microbiome — that is, the genes not of “me,” exactly, but of the several hundred microbial species with whom I share this body. These bacteria, which number around 100 trillion, are living (and dying) right now on the surface of my skin, on my tongue and deep in the coils of my intestines, where the largest contingent of them will be found, a pound or two of microbes together forming a vast, largely uncharted interior wilderness that scientists are just beginning to map.

yajifun: Acrobat Hayatake Torakichi from Osaka / Kunisada...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:57:46 -0400

大坂下り早竹徳蔵福松西両國廣小路ニ於興行仕候

大坂下り早竹虎吉

yajifun:

Acrobat Hayatake Torakichi from Osaka / Kunisada II

大坂下り早竹虎吉（石橋の曲）　二代目歌川国貞　1857年

“大坂下り早竹徳蔵福松西両國廣小路ニ於興行仕候”

※参照：見世物興行年表:安政三年（1856）～安政四年（1857）十

También hicimos Penélope, de Leonora Carrington. En el libreto...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:57:17 -0400

También hicimos Penélope, de Leonora Carrington. En el libreto había algunas palabras muy raras que nosotros respetábamos porque creíamos que era algo surrealista. Un día Leonora fue a un ensayo y nos dijo que esas palabras raras eran errores de dedo en la máquina de escribir.

- Farnesio de Bernal. Actor.

billyjane: Lindsay Seers, I saw the light, 2005 “She is...

twinreversedarterialperfusion — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:47:38 -0400

billyjane:

Lindsay Seers, I saw the light, 2005

“She is engrossed by the conceptual and philosophical questions raised by the medium that relate to truth, imagination, memory and history.

(…) as a child she could not speak. This silence was possibly caused by a condition called eidetic memory (photographic memory). Seers first spoke at the age of eight when she saw a photograph of herself, asking: ‘Is that me?’ Her eidetic memory faded with the onset of language. This traumatic loss of her memory led her to ‘become’ a camera; she started forming images by inserting pieces of light-sensitive paper into her mouth and using her lips as the aperture and shutter. This passive process of ‘ingesting’ the world occupied her for many years, she gave up her life as a camera to ‘become’ a projector emitting images in an act of extramission.”

Nicolas Bourriaud on Lindsay Seers @Tate