pedestrian at best

30/f • i post stuff that makes me go !!!

[therunwayarchive]

Litkovska, Spring 2024

[ifnemfrog]

a giant lamp / of light, it is voltage, / it is more like a lantern / than like a house poem excerpt, stephen ackerman source image

[suliqyre]

We live in a world of structures, institutions, and systems. These entities exercise authority over us by imposing rules that they also enforce. Often their authority is legitimized by the claim that we have granted it, and that it is only our endorsement that allows these rules to exist, even though we usually have not given our explicit endorsement to anything.

If we challenge the rules, we are told they are necessary to maintain an orderly society. And it is true that rules help to create order, which often convinces us that the authorities are acting in our best interest. But it is also often the case that these very same rules are used to further the interests of a select few to the detriment of all others.

To see what is truly in our best interest requires an almost impossible breadth of awareness. We must see not only what we personally need but also the needs of all others, as individuals and as a whole. But what frequently happens is that we do not consider need at all, and instead concentrate on our ability to satisfy our desires. We are told that it is by satisfying our freely-chosen desires that we will become more happy. Consequently, we allow the needs of the many to go unmet, while permitting the desires of the most privileged, lucky, and able to be fulfilled.

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[slylittlemy]

Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works

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Lee Jeonglok, Iceland 29, 2019 C-Type Print 120 x 160 cm 47.2 x 63 in Edition of 7 plus 2 AP                                    

[thirdity]

“Now I seem to have a center, but did not before. More important, I see this as being ensouled. The work has reached its end, suddenly, by an act of God; the person has been searching for his missing parts (i.e., his soul) throughout all time and everywhere, with the possibility that the person may — on his own — never be complete. I consider this search for one’s soul as the modern way of viewing redemption from bondage to sin, enslavement, or as I speak of it, machine-level consciousness.”

— Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[thirdity]

“If I had to characterize this new state of affairs, I would call it ‘after the orgy.’ The orgy is in a way the whole explosive movement of modernity, with its various kinds of liberation — political liberation, sexual liberation, [etc.] If you want my opinion, today everything is liberated. The game is over, and we collectively confront the crucial question: ‘What are you doing after the orgy?’”

— Jean Baudrillard, “Beyond the Vanishing Point of Art”

[thirdity]

“I can now discern — albeit dimly — the outline of a new theology, rooted in the epoch we are moving into. It is a Christian-Buddhist neo-pantheism very close to Pere Teilhard’s Christocentric Point Omega, but having specifically to do with the unitary ecosphere — and for me, closely related to Malebranche’s Cartesian pantheism, which of course goes back to Augustine and Pauline mysticism — and may also include the new physics and field theory, a merging of science and theology in defense of a palpably living universe.”

— Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[nununiverse]

Iwasaki Tsuneo   Grain de Riz 

[thirdity]

“Ah, but to reach muteness, what a great effort of voice. My voice is the way I go in search of reality; reality, before my language, exists like a thought that is not thought, but inescapably I was and am compelled to need to know what the thought thinks.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.

[suliqyre]

To write is to talk about yourself. Regardless of the form it takes, everything you write is an expression of yourself. It's your feelings, thoughts, ideas, memories, and imaginings that shape the texts you create.

Through the act of writing, you bring a part of your interior self into the world using language. You compose the contents of your mind in a way that makes sense on the page. The kind of sense it makes changes depending on what you're writing. A poem makes sense in a different way than an academic paper makes sense. This practice of sense-making through writing also develops your awareness. As you think and write, you come to understand yourself a little better.

To read your own writing is to talk to yourself. By reading yourself you gain a more distant perspective of yourself. The distance increases as the time between writing and reading increases. When you read a text you just finished, you might not see anything new in it. But when you read something you wrote years ago, there is the potential for insight. Not only are you no longer in the mindset of composition, you are no longer the same person who wrote the words. The self that was no longer exists, and the self that is has had new experiences in the meantime.

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[thirdity]

“That he had felt this despair, this deepest nausea, and yet had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the happy fountainhead and voice within him, had remained alive after all — it was because of all these things that he now felt such joy, that he laughed, that his face was beaming beneath his gray hair.”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[limerencs]

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Grasshopper (1987) by Peter Blegvad from Imagine, Observe, Remember

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

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Rejoice Chuol at Loewe, Spring 2024

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Mona Tougaard at Loewe, Spring 2024