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6 years

imagine a world where trees moved at animal speed.

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7 years

a turquoise glacier mist, squatting in my brain

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10 months

wherever you grieve, there you are

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11 years

a siren, going off in the distance, sounding like hope singing its past shelf date blues. roughly 9 am, full day ahead and you're welcome.

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6 years

the moment they realize you brought a doggie bag home

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9 years

stranded in the wrong timeline. but why?

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12 years

listing snake charming, passionate obfuscation and dowsing for clues. in a resume.

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13 years

went out into the world and nothing worked. ran no errands. devoting afternoon to sungazing and forget all about the rest.

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8 years

be the lighthouse, not the shipwreck

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6 years

the mind as a haunted house

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6 years

in the afterglow of retrospect, social media, and the porthole sadness they induce, were an error. every history is a history of errors.

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2 years

"I went to the poetry of the past, and to poets of different landscapes, because I need everything to face the future. " this being, among other things, a deeply meaningful essay on pursuing a full existence in proximity of ruins. brava Sofia. i'm moved.

Standing at the Ruins - The White Review

1. SAND AND SNOW He is a warrior prince. He hunts in the deserts of central Arabia. He drinks and carouses with his companions, and pursues scandalous love affairs. When his father banishes him for...

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1 year

all this pressure everywhere to grow over time. as if we were cancer.

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7 years

bookshelves dreamed anew. the process emblematizes a volcano. now look at its eruptive core

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13 years

thinking: i'm gonna wake up in a while.

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11 years

in the end, he thought, there is no me. but a smear of hiss and crackles where struggle used to be.

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8 years

congrats to @PaolaPorciello for her full marks w/ honors MD & amazing dissertation <3 very happy to be there, Doc!

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1 year

everybody seemed to be acting off the same scripts, so that any and each day the view outside the window lulled you into the cheap, bleary reassurance that you were safe, that nothing would harm you, as long as you stuck to the script yourself

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3 years

"It evolved from repetition, mimicry, and getting caught into cognitive loops, to eventually beginning to step out of this phase with ideas and expressions of its own." didn't we all?

Emptyset: Uncanny Processes

Fast-advancing AI technologies are throwing our notions of authorship and creativity again into flux. In creating their seventh album, Blossoms, the electronic music duo Emptyset created a machine-...

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12 years

oozing confusion as cephalopods spill ink. residual images the grim zeitgeist of a slow summer.

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5 months

imagine if no conversation was possible and it was all just a cacophony of solipsisms

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10 years

the shiny new year, further evidence of how either the calendar or the self are figments of superstitions so old we don't grasp them anymore

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6 years

thinking the same things all over forever was the past. now, move.

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7 years

most need a souvenir that they existed. that's why.

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8 years

let's whisper to each other off the grid tonight. dark bloodred primitivo in thin chalices. twinkling stars. no one will know. but us.

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3 years

loved his Time Loops. this interview raises a lot of interesting points, and long self is effective shorthand for 4(5, 6, n)D worms, esp. when you need to frantically signal the concept in somebody's else dark.

Author Eric Wargo on dreams, premonitions, and the long self

“When you start paying attention, you start identifying precognitive dreams constantly. This isn't some extraordinary rare phenomenon. The brain can reach into its future all the time. We just don't...

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14 years

leave a trace every once in a while. so that it gets to be known you ain't out of the world for good.

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4 years

"on my windhorse, at sunrise, i come riding". that's the extent of what was said. i hope it suffices for a while.

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6 years

as simple as lifting your eyes from the page.

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1 year

the world’s most private browsing experience has nothing to do with computers

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2 years

a procedural thriller, leading straight into a corner. if you can spare a few minutes and end up reading it, let me know.

drowned in the world

for reasons unbeknownst to me, on the first of may, 2018, after spending a whole day in a way that differed enough from my usual trawl to grant scribbling the minuscule embryo of a reportage about it...

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7 years

the particular discomfort they display when you're just rearranging bookshelves and furniture and they think you're gonna move again

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1 year

@djbduncan @vilmastuttle there's an Italian paper by Amalda Ciani Ciuka, the second one in this pdf here: which is just about that, but doesn't seem to list much beyond hypotheses: 1) he's compiling "Retractationum libri duo", hence revising his previous texts;

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9 years

the allure of having ultimately attained a feeble, crude sentience. shattered upon wake.

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18 years

riding fast into the wild prairies of rebooting confusion. i love early mornings!

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3 years

implications abound, rebound. so dance on their mound. next step wherever you could not guess. be grateful. cut up yr timeline and see what happens.

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8 years

the long forgotten tantra of spring being back, tensing unseen bow strings, going straight for throats

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10 years

in the garden by the stairs. summer night fading onto aeolian disquiet. storm is next. malvasia nera through a glass riverlike.

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14 years

chided as well by unknown factors in even my imagination. less likely a nuance than mere phenomenic observation. mostly folding, outward.

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8 years

glimpsed myself, caught amidst queueing ghosts on glass. i looked pale, feeble, zero-dimensional. a black swan sketch unheld by any buddha.

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8 years

that thing where you spread tarot expecting unforeseen insights, and all you get is an amazing polaroid, so crisp it almost hurts

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3 years

often thinking: don't think too much. stop. it's gonna explode.

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6 years

"Research is almost always paid for by pharmaceutical companies. But studies done by industry are well known to have positive results far more frequently. Trials run by industry are 70% more likely than government funded trials to show a positive result."

wildwood poppies

@PaolaPorciello

6 years

How did we get here? “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue” (Richard Horton) #ebm #bigpharma

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8 years

“find your lost keys” @p

find your lost keys

perhaps unsurprisingly, later that night i dreamt that, rather than using it as a sieve through which the past should stroll in order to…

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7 years

why the grimness? it's rarely worth it. let's change track

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7 years

(by albert saijo, 1997) - "so now let us be cheerful as we sink"

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13 years

stomping feet, the only explanation i'll offer from now on: i used my imagination.

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3 years

"You are always in danger of being confronted with your incohesiveness, with evidence of a past self now rejected or a misinterpreted, misprocessed version of one’s archive being distributed as the real you."

Is It My Body — Real Life

Horror films animate the 21st-century fear that our selves are inescapably corrupted

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6 years

"did it change your life?" is not the correct question. "did your life change?" might be. the metrics would only barely shift. and the reply is yes, tiny bits of it. any and each day.

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15 years

the day haltingly turning into one of those where everything is slow. thoughts, uplinks, wish fulfilments.

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13 years

back here after years. who are all these followers? did we step all this way through evolution & time just to have bots listening to us?

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9 years

a portmanteau of cofanetto sperlari and some horrendous curse, except you can't really spell it, 'cos unluckily there's no such word

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10 years

gli occhi dardeggianti dismisura, pur empíti solo a belle addormentate. ma guardò oltre, poi,

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9 years

most days actually reruns where only the observer has changed

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6 years

i then woke up. somehow somewhere old guys are still hunting for sunlight on their cheeks. most of our thoughts remain unposted. and so things go.

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7 years

life-affirming foxfire

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15 years

al limite si tratta solo di passare da una fase transitoria all'altra. a che pro battere ciglio?

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8 years

recognize the neurotic archetypes you subscribe to. once done don't stop there, embrace them. so tight their bones will crush

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9 years

an increasingly common occurrence of oblivion at first sight

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1 year

we're sitting together, apparently. lightly banging on a drum.

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1 year

@aliner Yoko Tawada, interviewed by Monika Totten, on a related note ()

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6 years

and the dogs, trying to hypnotize me

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1 year

the year is far from being over but this is one of the best blog posts i've read in it. not an essay, not an article. capturing what in my head i've always perceived a blog to be: a box brimming with snippets of an author's life. so dazzling. thanks.

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13 years

finding myself increasingly unable to compile personal web profiles. a marker of what, exactly, eludes me.

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7 years

"I have wandered further than I intended", said Blondine. it's echoing, still.

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7 years

go to bed worried and you'll wake up afflicted - how about abiding in a swoon, instead. i mean, always. just for a change.

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7 years

had you looked further - said Ganapati - you would have become the ruler of the universe

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9 years

the tour de force process of enchanting for what you need rather than what you want. and yet the crunched apples, tasting sour and the same.

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7 years

at this point, default settings on everything are practically a curse

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1 year

you evolve with the images inside, said Hanne Ørstavik in an interview

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15 years

no sunrise today?

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7 years

your mind. indistinguishable from clouds.

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1 year

gorgeously translated or not, this is the antithesis of mysterious, winding sentences: with so few characters at hand, there’s very little room to go winding up, or down, or anywhere else

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9 years

offshot from an early march photosession:

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6 years

@Future_Toronto more like you lie down in a field and you doze off then some noises wake you up and when you open your eyes you discover you're surrounded

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7 years

or ones where you are perpetually stuck inside a giant robot, with little to no clues on how to pilot it

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16 years

omg there's a ghost on gtalk

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7 years

the book i gave you, the one still sitting on the shelf you first laid it upon. read that.

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15 years

italics: i have no job, i have no home. i have nothing but rags and bones.

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9 years

today was unreal. but then, one thinks, aren't they all.

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15 years

back to the days when people used to ran things past their HGA hoping for a nod? the meanwhile has half a lunch splattered on the ground.

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16 years

downloading a season. wishing i could do the same for spring cos forthcoming winter already has me on the edge.

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15 years

whoever you might be, please stop trying to reset my password. really.

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3 years

even back then it was partial, imperfect information: i’d go for life-affirming *whatever* any time. and yet, how does one affirm life, in this day and age?

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7 years

life-affirming foxfire

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15 years

nonetheless stuck in an infernal engine of routines, though.

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1 year

and on December 15, 2022 Ryan Oakley, on his blog, wrote: “Fuck art, make magic. Invoke, hex, conjure, pray, bind, worship, divine. Art is only an appropriation of magic.”

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16 years

maybe 7 am is too early

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9 years

focusing on the lay of the land but believe me, there's too much haze around

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16 years

this twitter stream ends here, after a text file backup. i'm moving elsewhere unseen. fare you well.

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16 years

sick since days, wild fever and cranky bones. damn flu still co-opting me through another gray morning.

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3 years

racing to the antipodes of your biases only resulted in a mirror set of the same, and with nowhere left to run in the end

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15 years

the quantity of crap you could pass through customs with a little philosophy babble...

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16 years

the tired status line: "home, knotting my brain" unchanged in months.

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16 years

tape recording bird chirping outside the window. staring at untended branching growth of invites. not acting, how tao.

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9 years

countless episodes into darkness, check - yet, do brim sunlike

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9 years

not that strange upon close inspection but a loop nonetheless. badly cut, lagging, popping through the boombox speakers when it cycles

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1 year

a few pages after that the reviewer posits that since for Jourdan writing was a tool for exploring what it meant to have come into being and how to live in the world and there die, he had no particular interest in seeing his work in print.

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9 years

the strangest urge of circling things and instances as a vulture would, as age layering encrypted inside a tree

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16 years

webroutines are boring. that's a given, somehow underestimated. boring.

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