Constellation: Poetic Resistance / Being
A mode of existing that uses the sensuous, affective, and rhythmic qualities of language and embodied action to resist the bureaucratized, algorithmic semiosphere.
The Boring Revolution
Source: Un Peu de Neige Salie by Bernhard Günter Bartleby the Scrivener (Excerpt) “Bartleby,” said I, “Ginger Nut is away; just step round to the Post Office, won’t you? (it was but a three minute walk,) and see if there is anything for me.” “I would prefer not to.” “You will not?” “I prefer not.”…
The Soul Machine
Source: Soul Machine by Sunflower Soul Enzymatic Knowledge Machines “A theory is exactly like a box of tools. It has nothing to do with the signifier. It must be useful. It must function.” Deleuze and Guattari [2]. This theory of the precarious contemporary position of subjectivity is intended as a symbolically textured tool, an “enzymatic…
A Slow Ablution
Source: Movement of Whale by SevenDoors. Whale – Part I Whale burps noisily along, patter of footsteps and the stink of his brain, unhappy alliance… …Take me down to the underground… An old song, memory’s reject, the underground, wisp of bounce, uncoiled spring crawls up leg, welcome thought, welcome thought, freshening of the grey. Slide…
The Invisible Kiss
Source: Revolution Void §10 Think of intersubjectivity as an inverted cone the apex of which interfaces with the pure (imagined) subject and the base with the (imagined) transcendent Morality functions in a space coextensive with the cone’s volume not limited to any cross-section Think of intersubjectivity as a Klein bottle in which the objective and…
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…
