June 2010
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond...”
– Blaise Pascal (via commondense)
Digital Delirium
montycantsin:
“Communication transmits a universe made up of disconnected images, remarks, statements and commentarities whose accepted principle is incoherence. Day after day communication undoes all relations and all principles, in an untenable juxtaposition that dissolves every relation between the elements it sweeps along in its flow.” - Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
airforce ditties by Carolyn Srygley-Moore
No, we don’t forget. Cliffs embroidered with bells & the likes of prisoners behind barbed wire // we don’t forget the green sea exploiting the beach front the sea being exploited by man. In dream it is all jumbled like warehouse & residence // noticed while walking inner city Baltimore, great yellow tarps flapping over broken windows // webbed glass & such. The soldiers are...
Watchekstasis:wildcat2030:infoneer-pulse:
David Weinberger: How information became the “dominant metaphor” of contemporary intellectual life
The Cluetrain Manifesto author and Internet philosopher discusses information — as a paradigm, as an irony, as a way of comprehending ourselves and the world. Given the fact that we don’t understand, in any meaningful way, what information actually is,...
An empire of bliss: Grant Morrison - Hypersigils →
The “hypersigil” or “supersigil” develops the sigil concept beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama, and plot. The hypersigil is a sigil extended through the fourth dimension. My own comic book series The Invisibles was a six-year long sigil in the form of…
Theses on Groucho Marxism by Bob Black
Groucho Marxism, the theory of comedic revolution is much more than a blueprint for crass struggle: like a red light in a window, it illuminates humanity’s inevitable destiny, the declasse society. G-Marxism is the theory of permanent revelry. (Down boy! There, that’s a good dogma.)
The example of the Marx Brothers themselves shows the unity of Marxist theory and practice (for...
