Collected pages from the hexagonal conundrum

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[theleoisallinthemind]

Too visual for the writers. Too conceptual for the designers. Too commercial for the artists. Too artistic for the commercial world.

If you've ever felt that, this one's for you.

New essay on The Wandering Muse on Substack.

[garadinervi]

Annalisa Retico, Untitled, (series), (water-based felt-tip pens on Hahnemühle sumi-e paper), 2024, in «utsanga», No. 41, 2024 [© Annalisa Retico]

[bezesta]

Today was the last time I hung in this library, as it is definitively closing next week. For the past year, it had been a weekly acquaintance. (It is a second-hand bookstore). I got to read many books written by african authors, kréol authors, Créolité’s authors, richness and thinkings I was in my earlier life alienated from. There, I found the book that would most change and regulate my existence, Écrire en pays dominé by Patrick Chamoiseau. It gave me so much, can’t ask for too much. Sad seeing the place that hided so many gems now empty…farewell dear part of my life, continueras-tu ton existence dans ma mémoire. Here’s the final books bought.

[n1k1z1]

Pages from a 19th century Moroccan Quran

[chabochi]

Petroglyphs of Sikachi-Alyan, Nanaian village

[nietp]

Deer friends thousands of years apart

[nietp]

Elk-figure from Åskollen, Drammen, Norway.

[nietp]

Petroglyph of Sikachi-Alyan under the snow

[askyea-poesy]

Man starts all over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Emil Cioran

[thinkingimages]

TR Ericsson, Day is Done, 2022. Graphite, carbonized soot, resin and funerary ashes on linen, 70 × 100 inches. Courtesy the artist and TOTAH.

[garadinervi]

James Joyce, (1922), Ulysses, Random House, New York, NY, 1946, Book Club Edition [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]

[angelicdewdrop]

[arcticdementor]

"The term cyberfeminism has been attributed to the artist group VNS Matrix and theorist Sadie Plant. According to an often reiterated story of genesis, cyberfeminism came to being in Adelaide, Australia, 1991 as the VNS Matrix, a group of four female artists (Josephine Starrs, Francesca di Rimini, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt), “decided to have some fun with art and French feminist theory” (Pierce 1998, 10). The group authored “A cyberfeminist manifesto for the 21st century” inspired by Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.”  VNS Matrix's projects like All New Gen and Corpusfantastica MOO fund resonance with Sadie Plant who became the best-known theorist of cyberfeminism, at least in Europe. For Plant, VNS Matrix’s often playful projects illustrated the affinities between feminine modes of language and the communicational forms of the Internet. VNS Matrix's slogan “the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix” became the motto for Plant’s (1996a) own cyberfeminist manifesto, “Feminisations: Reflections on Women and Virtual Reality” that outlined a development towards entropy, networks, and self-organizing systems. The narrative of feminisation evolved in the texts published by Plant in 1995-1997, outlining a narrative trajectory of women and networks from prehistory to the era of computing. The broad, metaphorical, and often rather ephemeral narrative ties women and machines together as tools and others of masculine culture and promises complicated and intertwining webs that will eventually overturn the phallogocentric hegemony. According to Plant (1996b, 182), the cyberfeminism surfacing in feminisation “may not be feminism at all” to the degree that feminist activism is, for Plant, outdated and unfitting for the contemporary situation in which patriarchy's tools and machines (women, computers, and media) have grown out of control (173.)"

—Susanna Paasonen, "Surfing the Waves of Feminism: Cyberfeminism and its others"

[houghtonlib]

Bible : manuscript, [12--]

MS Typ 119

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[my-secret-eye-deactivated201902]

Cecil Touchon, Palimpsest Asemic Correspondence (Ink on antique (1920′s) Mexican Geography Journal

[msmarymillspaulos]

We are fighting against three giants, my dear Sancho: injustice, fear and ignorance."

Miguel de Cervantes

[letterful]

[worldsandemanations]

Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, apud Thomam Baglionum, Venetijs, 1610

[whitehotel]

Erica Baum, Debts (dog ear) (2009)

[the-hexagonal-conundrum]

Ph. Descola, Par-delà nature et culture. Le totémisme.