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freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

On page 29 of (Andrew Goffey's translation, Minnesota 2018, of) David Lapoujade's Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (French: Puissances du temps, 2010) we read: The free act is the integral of the whole history of the person—the integral of its sentiments, its thoughts, and

digest

⑦ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 16 – 18)

⑦ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 16 – 18)

DURATION HAS THE QUALITY OF A MELODY If it glitches out it is no longer that melody. Any alteration in the intervals of time brings about qualitative change. The melody no longer makes sense or it makes a new kind of sense. He talks about a bell tolling. He hears

⑥ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 14 – 15)

⑥ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 14 – 15)

⑤ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

⑤ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

④ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

④ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 – 9)

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 – 9)

theory

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

The following was written when I was without power and what goes by the term connectivity—without power I had no easy access to water but could at least heat what I carried in pots from the smaller of our two tanks that collect rainwater from the roof—because a

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

a tree imagines it's a tree

a tree imagines it's a tree

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control

Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

journal

At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

. . . it was Ethiopian, came in a small block of stone, cost noncompetitively @NZD5, but that was not all: this café, called Passion with a symbol for wheat, advertised itself as a bakery, we were hungry for breakfast bread (it might even have been the day I arrived, since I got

explaining my circumstance

explaining my circumstance

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

poetry

some lines after Jim Moore*

some lines after Jim Moore*

Jim Moore writes, Sometimes the world won’t let itself be sung. Can’t become a poem. And Sometimes, REM sing, everybody hurts and cries sometimes. I know the world is wrong I know sometimes a man is wrong, sings David Byrne, and—Michael Stipe, Hold on Take comfort—whereon

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

The last lecture raises two questions. One of them I hope to have made at least a partial answer to by the end of this lecture. One of them will be left more or less open. The question of the assassination by visual effects, CGI, of film: sounds criminal. But

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4