Simulacra, Antanaclasis, Heterotopia

I Am that I Am. All you need is Love. Love is the Law. Love under Will. "...There is no hope, but us. There is no mercy, but us. There is no justice-- there is just us..." -- Death "...The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true..." --Jean Baudrillard "...By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. This cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centres structuring any possibility of historical transformation...." --Donna Haraway

[i-am-a-slytheringirl]

[things-at-night]

[mrcrystalface]

[quantumcyborgtheory]

Autism and the Edges of the Known World: Sensitivities, Language and Constructed Reality Paperback by Olga Bogdashina

just finished reading this; more extensive review later-- but I do recommend it-- it is fairly accessible, although not as profound as I think it could have been-- but fairly thought-provoking and certainly resonates in a number of places with the personal experiences of my partner and I (both AS); it also does a good job of situating so many common frustrations in certain kinds of interactions with neurotypical folks, as well as exploring interesting phenomenological territories and lots of other interesting trajectories-- although all the good chapters could easily be their own much deeper/expanded books.

Autism and the Edges of the Known World: Sensitivities, Language and Constructed 

by Olga Bogdashina  http://www.amazon.com/Autism-Edges-Known-World-Sensitivities/dp/1849050422

[libutron]

Crystal Palace by John Richter

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord (via writingquotes)

[onconsciousness]

If you don’t want to assist in the spectacle of the end of the world, you must work toward ending the world of the spectacle.

Guy Debord (via onconsciousness)

[linactuel]

" Les situationnistes sont trop vulnérables […] N’étant pas artistes, ils n’ont aucune chance de ne pas être un jour reconnus. On peut toujours récupérer les idées, jamais les visions."

— Marc-Edouard Nabe, Rideau, 1992

[thesoviette]

[Guy] Debord’s first book, Mémoires, was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would destroy other books placed next to it.

Wikipedia (via thesoviette)

[mediumtoheavyhanded-blog]

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

Guy Debord (1931-1994)

[thehouseholdcat]

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Society of the Spectacle (4)

[betweeneverythingels]

"To Mnemosyne (Memory), Fumigation from Frankincense. The consort I invoke of Zeus divine; source of the holy, sweetly speaking Mousai nine; free from the oblivion of the fallen mind, by whom the soul with intellect is joined. Reason’s increase and thought to thee belong, all-powerful, pleasant, vigilant, and strong. ‘Tis thine to waken from lethargic rest all thoughts deposited within the breast; and nought neglecting, vigorous to excite the mental eye from dark oblivion’s night. Come, blessed power, thy mystics’ memory wake to holy rites, and Lethe’s (Forgetfulness) fetters break."

Orphic Hymn 77 to Mnemosyne

[mnemosyneindust]

Mnemosyne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thou fill’st from the winged chalice of the soul

Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal

[holomermaids]

Mythology Meme » [2/4] Titans » Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne, Greek goddess of memory, was considered one of the most powerful goddesses of her time. After all, it is memory, some believe, that is a gift that distinguishes us from the other creatures in the animal world. It is the gift that allows us to reason, to predict and anticipate outcomes, and is the very foundation for civilization. Mnemosyne was a Titaness, a daughter of the first generation of deities in Greece.  Her parents were the rulers Cronus and the goddess Gaia. 

The memory of Mnemosyne meant the memory of the rules and energies of the universe, the cycle of life, the memory of how to live in the world. The goddess Mnemosyne is sometimes credited with being the first philosopher, her gift the power of reason. She was given responsibility for the naming of all objects, and by doing so gave humans the means to dialog and to converse with each other.  The powers to place things in memory an that of remembrance were also attributed to this goddess. The ancients believed that when one died and crossed into the Underworld one would be given a choice … whether to drink from the river Lethe where you would forget all the pains and terrors of your previous life (and with them, the lessons they brought), or whether to drink from the Mnemosyne, the spring of memory. The ancients believed that when one died and crossed into the Underworld one would be given a choice … whether to drink from the river Lethe where you would forget all the pains and terrors of your previous life (and with them, the lessons they brought), or whether to drink from the Mnemosyne, the spring of memory. Those who chose to forget had to be reborn, to return to earth to learn the lessons they needed.  Those who had chosen to remember were admitted to the Elysian Fields where they would spend eternity in comfort and peace. 

[eideticfields]

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images.

Amiel, The Journal Intimé of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (via eideticfields)

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MYTHOLOGY MEME ~ [1/4] Titans ~ Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne was Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words.

As a Titan daughter of Ouranos (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorisation required, before the introduction of writing, to preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth. In this role she was represented as the mother of the Mousai (Muses), originally patron goddesses of the poets of the oral tradition.

Finally, Mnemosyne was a minor oracular goddess like her sister-Titanes. She presided over the underground oracle of Trophonios in Boiotia. (x)

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MYTHOLOGY MEME ~ [1/4] Titans ~ Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne was Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words.

As a Titan daughter of Ouranos (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorisation required, before the introduction of writing, to preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth. In this role she was represented as the mother of the Mousai (Muses), originally patron goddesses of the poets of the oral tradition.

Finally, Mnemosyne was a minor oracular goddess like her sister-Titanes. She presided over the underground oracle of Trophonios in Boiotia. (x)