we’re stuffed
Again in a situation with a friend, helping purge and order an overwhelming abundance of stuff. The developed world is drowning in its own excess accumulation of stuff. Between direct body consumption...
View ArticleFriedrich A. Kittler 1943 – 2011 “Alle Apparate auschalten”
I spent an uncomfortable evening with Kittler and a handful of Austrians at a restaurant in Linz back in 1998. It was uncomfortable because of the language gap. My German was worse than his English. He...
View Articlesome points and hints for students :: a remix
point == be where you are, look deep into the world from your point of view, and into the self, and out to the Other. share what you experience point == find a flow that you can tap into, do so, pay...
View Articleon visibility
To look: at everything which overflows the outline, the contour, the category, the name of what it is. All appearances are continually changing one another: visually everything is interdependent....
View ArticleHuxley’s education
In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are...
View ArticleNoli turbare circulos meos!
The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum. In...
View Articlethe force of taut stomachs
[F]orce is always experienced through interaction. We become aware of force as it affects us or some object in our perceptual field. When you enter an unfamiliar dark room and bump into the edge of the...
View Articlethe innovator
no time here to do anything but thrash through The Text. first big round of edits done, but a major second round to re-shuffle material, collect thoughts, delete extraneous threads will be arduous. . ....
View Articledoh!
People treat modern communication media as if they were human, so established principles of interpersonal communication also predict human responses to computers and television. The media equation...
View Articlenot to be overlooked . . .
Following on to examine the trend in cosmology and unified field theories, Chalmers speculates that conscious experience may be a fundamental feature cosmologically: “If the existence of consciousness...
View ArticleVeteran Fact Sheet
Veteran Statistics – There are approximately 25 million veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces alive today (7.5 % are women). – Some 7.2 million of those veterans are enrolled in the Department of Veterans...
View ArticleBey reminds again!
One fundamental key to success in Travel is of course attentiveness. We call it «paying attention» in English & «prêter attention» in French (in Arabic, however, one gives attention) suggesting...
View Articlesystems awareness
It would seem that a key characteristic of an awareness of any particular ‘system’ has to include a sense of the ‘setting’ of that abstracted system. That is, reflecting the idea of scalar independence...
View Articlemore cutting room floor
I’ll help you meet the unknown. I rather enjoy the unknown. At least some of it. Not all of it. Maybe later I’ll tell you about what specific unknowns I cannot deal with. Every life-form has a...
View Articlemore cutting room floor
You are so distant. And absence, what of that? Is it simply a corresponding dialectic as cold is to heat? Is it merely the empty reciprocal of the Vedic tapas—the “internal warmth, creative heat” that...
View Articlemore cutting room floor
Why do you act that way? Whatever the drives are to first experience and later, to understand the presence of the Other, we also spend much effort in establishing the character of our own presence...
View Articlemore cutting room floor
I think of you often. If fundamental presence is so ever-present, immersive, why would we want or need more than that? Indeed, is there anything more than gradations of changing presence through which...
View ArticleArt in Science and Technology (ArtiST)
By pure happenstance, (I was on the CSM alumni page for something), I saw the announcement for a three-day conference on Art in Science and Technology (ArtiST) connected with the High Grade literary...
View Articlemapping: or not
All that writing is is a protocol: a reductive way of describing reality. The best writing more deeply invokes the energetic nature and spirit of reality’s flow. The closer that writing lies to an...
View Articleyup
When the great earth, abandoning day, rolls up the deeps of the heavens and the universe, a new door opens for the human spirit, and there are few so clownish that some awareness of the mystery of...
View Articleback to B&B
Martin Buber and David Bohm — German-speaking Hasidim Jew phil-theo-logist/sopher and Anglo, McCarthy-black-listed quantum physicist. Unlikely combination, but in my practice, my pathway, they elicit a...
View Articlematters
Matter is not what it appears to be. Its most obvious property — variously called resistance to motion, inertia, or mass — can be understood more deeply in completely different terms. The mass of...
View Articlefirst at something…
well, made to the top of one list, for a change, and not on a ‘most wanted’ one with profiles from my bad side. averaging 48 km/month, I jumped in front of the next highest person (gal) on the...
View Articleperturbation
I sit in a room in a one hundred year old storefront property on High Street. I am 12,422 kilometers south-south-west of the point where I entered the world. That’s less than a third of the way around...
View Articlemovement brings encounter
Movement brings encounter. It is as we find our way through life that we meet the people who change us. The character of these encounters forms an armature upon which we build our internal and external...
View Articlemovement (again) and storms
Morning air is diffuse and golden, a Light fog, perhaps from this event some 200 km away or so. Nothing like the Great Sydney Sandstorm of 2009, but nothing to trivialize either. If only humans would...
View ArticleChris Norris Allen 1953 – 2011
Chris Allen, one of my favorite students from way back in Master Black and White Printing at CU Boulder in the late 1980′s, passed today. Chris was a gentle, gracious, and humble soul, at the same time...
View Articlejust a bit after the mescaline
In spite of a natural history that was nothing but a set of drearily moralistic symbols, in the teeth of a theology which, instead of regarding words as the sings of things, treated things and events...
View ArticleNordic Nazi recollections
Hitler’s worldview included copious referencing of Nordic creation mythologies (thus his love of Wagner!), and as a consequence of this there developed strong pro-Nazi movements leading up to, through,...
View ArticleFull dissertation text: The Regime of Amplification
Well, I guess it’s about time to put the PhD dissertation text out there in .pdf form, so, here it is: The Regime of Amplification. Have at it, be polite, no grabbing, pushing, or shoving. Do not fold,...
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