December 2011
17 posts
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
WIKIPOETICALS
i’m really interested in information and how we get/trust the information we get/trust. also, i love wikipedia. not because it’s real or right, but because it is, in its myriad falsity and authenticity, always true. i love it not because it is reliable, but because it changes; because it helps us understand and draw connections while severing any real ones. i hate it for all the same...
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– David Foster Wallace: “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction.
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“Magic then, in its perhaps most primordial sense, is the experience of existing...”
– David Abram.
1 tag
1 tag
Meditation at Lagunitas
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the other notion that, because there is in this...
1 tag
“In today’s world the notion of the ‘entirely original’ is not just an impossible...”
– Jitish Kalat.
1 tag
