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How to Write Experimental Fiction in Five Easy Steps, By Christopher Higgs (excerpt)

‘It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent.’

– Alain Badiou, Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art

Step One: never render visible.

‘Clarity,’ Trinh T. Minh-Ha tells us, in her book Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, ‘is a means of subjection, a quality both of official, taught language and of correct writing, two old mates of power: together they flow, together they flower, vertically, to impose an order.’

http://gorse.ie/how-to-write-experimental-fiction-in-five-easy-steps/

#postcolonial literature #experimental fiction

EML 101

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Haeckel embroidered

#ernst haeckel #embroidery

We are embroidering Haeckel

#ernst haeckel #Haeckel #embroidery

owm (the smaller), being a subset of Optiphonal Wonder Machine, varies in its form from the latter by a) having two or fewer of three members performing b) the songs, which may or may not follow the laws of the optiphonal wonder machine universes c) performances, which may or may not include live visuals

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The Witches' Rout (Lo Stregozzo) by Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano, engraving (1520)

#witch #The Witches Rout #Witches and Wicked Bodies

phantasmaphile

The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from their relation to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They commune with nature/ Spirit/God/dess/Choose-your-own-semantics, freely, and free of any mediator. But most importantly: they make things happen. The best definition of magic I’ve been able to come up with is “symbolic action with intent” — “action” being the operative word. Witches are midwives to metamorphosis. They are magical women, and they, quite literally, change the world.

Pamela J. Grossman, The Year of the Witch (via maurakellydoyle)

#witch #archetype #witcharchetype

We are preparing for our next round of live shows. It has been four years. Machines are cumbersome and constantly want tweaking. The hydrophonium has been reprogrammed. The songs have drifted off into unaccountable perspectives. DJ Contextualizer is busy reigning us in. We have installed more ram for our jitter patches and have not yet worked out how one changes lenses gracefully. The fan coral is beautiful. The sky ocean and its people were discovered by Voicehandler and pointed out to us. We were in awe of the parallels, synchronicities, coincidences.

theremina

#Lebbeus Woods #Photon Kite #graphite #sfmoma

letthemalleatculture

Arthur Ganson's Machine with Artichoke Petal #1

#Arthur Ganson #machines #Optiphonal Wonder Machine #kinetic sculpture

“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”

Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

#Hunter S. Thompson #myths and legends

[Spirit] must be sought out in that quarter where it is least expected--in matter.

Mercurius, The Marriage of Heaven & Earth by Patrick Harpur [126]

#alchemy #patrick harpur