[risingtensions]

(via (4) Anna’s Hummingbird Singing - YouTube)

[data-and-vision]

[gifsboom]

[earthlyfictions]

Csiscery-Ronay: The horror genre has always played with the violation of the body, since it adopts as its particular ‘object’ fear’ – the violent disruption of the sense of security, which precisely because it is a sense, works from within the body, the house of the senses [...] Even when the same images or motifs are used as in the horror genre, they have a different value in SF because they attack not the image of the body, but the idea’ of the image of the body, the very possibility of imaging the body (to borrow a metaphor from cyber-medicine)[...] Cyberpunk is part of a trend in science fiction dealing increasingly with madness, more precisely with the most philosophically interesting phenomenon of madness: hallucination (derangement). [...] So the most important sense is not fear, but dread. Hallucination is always saturated with affect. It is perception instigated by affect. [...] Mark Fisher. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction, p. 50

[earthlyfictions]

Rear-view mirrorism: 'When faced with a totally new situation,' McLuhan famously says, 'we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.' Source

[earthlyfictions]

«For Gothic Materialism, body horror is not something with which the body is afflicted merely contingently – it is not, for instance, a question of the penetration of a biotically-sealed interiority by invaders that may or may not strike – but something inherent to the body at all times and in all its operations. Body horror = cybernetic realism. Cronenberg: “One of our touchstones for reality is our bodies. And yet they [...] are by definition ephemeral.” Wiener: “Our tissues changes as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become  flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day through excreta [...] We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that repeat themselves.” (HUHB 96) From the point of view of a “residual” subject, then, body horror is a horror of the body’s terrifying mutability, its sheer meat materiality. As Deleuze observes when writing on Bacon, the body is always that which is escaping the subject: “It is not me who tries to escape my body, it is the body which tries to escape through itself».  Mark Fisher. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction, p. 30

[oraclesofnorway]

[earthlyfictions]

«But in a way to be a thing at all is to have been hurt. We are scarred with the traces of object cathexes. Trauma is not only human. The beautiful ridges in the glass are traces of the glass's own lost object cathexes. Things are printed with other things. Something about trauma is nonhuman». Dark Ecological Chocolate by Timothy Morton 

[earthlyfictions]

«According to the rigid agrilogistical logic format, there is no single, independent, definable point at which a meadow (for example) stops being a meadow. So there are no meadows. They might as well be car parks waiting to happen. And since by the same logic there are no car parks either, it doesn’t really matter if I build one on this meadow. Can you begin to see how the logical Law of Noncontradiction enables me to eliminate ecological beings both in thought and in actual physical reality? The Law of Noncontradiction was formulated by Aristotle, in section Gamma of his Metaphysics. It’s strange that we still carry this old law around in our heads, never thinking to prove it formally. According to the Law of Noncontradiction, being true means not contradicting yourself. You can’t say p and not-p at the very same time. You can’t say a meadow is a meadow and is not a meadow. Yet this is what is required, unless you want meadows not to exist». What Is Dark Ecology? by Timothy Morton

[eiginleiki]

[nyaa]

[earthlyfictions]

It’s nice to talk like everyone else, to say that the sun rises, when everybody knows it’s only a manner of speaking

Deleuze and Guattari, 1980, 3

[earthlyfictions]

«What concerns me is that the critical relation to ordinary grammar has been lost in this call for radical accessibility. It's not that I'm in favor of difficulty for difficulty's sake; it's that I think there is a lot in ordinary language and in received grammar that constrains our thinking." Butler points out that accessible meaning, common sense, and the public sphere are all "fictions" that deceive us into believing that we all inhabit the same linguistic world. She finds it curious indeed that anyone would make such appeals at the beginning of the twenty-first century, given our "postmodern condition," given what we now know about language thanks to poststructuralist thinkers, and given the fact that we live at a time when there's "enormous conflict at the level of language." In fact, she comments that it is our social responsibility to accept the fact that "there is no common language anymore." This fact, says Butler, is "one of the most profound pedagogical problems of our time, if not one of the most profound political problems of our time». Critical Intellectuals on Writing. Gary A. Olson, ‎Lynn Worsham (2010)

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[earthlyfictions]

«Scientific objectivity has a history. Objectivity has not always de­fined science. Nor is objectivity the same as truth or certainty, and it is younger than both. Objectivity preserves the artifact or variation that would have been erased in the name of truth; it scruples to filter out the noise that undermines certainty. To be objective is to aspire to knowledge that bears no trace of the knower — knowledge un­marked by prejudice or skill, fantasy or judgment, wishing or striving. Objectivity is blind sight, seeing without inference, interpretation, or intelligence. Only in the mid-nineteenth century did scientists begin to yearn for this blind sight, the “objective view” that em­braces accidents and asymmetries, Arthur Worthington’s shattered splash-coronet». Objectivity. Lorraine J. Daston and Peter Galison (2007)

[carlburton]

[unrar]

Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) group riding iceberg, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Eric Dietrich.