Constellation: Assemblage
Functional assemblies of parts across bodies, abstract institutions, and individual psychic systems etc. For example, the faciality machine is an assemblage of physical machines, media institutions, and human emotions.
Skin Game
Source: I Remember by Baden Abroad Skin Game (Extract) The skin, white and flickering, faintly moist in the bright light, taut around a skull in which two large sockets hold two dark orbs, irises deep and black. The skin fascinates, hums a reverberating message, plays an offbeat tune. I listen with my eyes. I won’t…
The City Without Organs
Source: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley Lobe (Excerpt) …circumstances of a post-consumer society will in time mimic the effects of Lobe on an individual pre-social transformation. Society itself becomes the embodiment of a Lobe-induced perspective. With this marriage of the internal and external, the mode of maintaining the impetus of social change…
