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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

...There are few images to be found. One has to dig for them like an archaeologist. One has to search through this ravaged landscape to find anything at all... It's often tied up with risk, of course, which I would never shun, but I see so few people

The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2

The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2

Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze, is available online, in translation by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galata, University of Minnesota Press, 1989, courtesy of Monoskop; and in the original French, Cinéma: L'Image-temps, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985, courtesy of Monoskop. The English edition will principally be

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false. –"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

Ao translates as bay and Nang, princess. Railay comes from a Malay word meaning rice-producing. Exploring the environs, forgoing the fondue, sitting beach-side into the sunset: then electricity: 0:00 /0:24 1× 0:00 /0:43 1× snaps of ventilated cars and obligatory cats: the loudest longtail

SYMPHONY

SYMPHONY

You are in a void. Describe the void. I have some notes here. Is this the moon? hanging no visible signs of support. poetry is for extracting one meaning puts down the notes straightens the pictures. to stop flapping is a relief to be done with the expectation collective action

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

Charles Stivale, a scholar I admire and to whom I have been grateful on more than one occasion (not least for sending me his recently published book, On Painting, 2025, a translation of Deleuze's 1981 seminars), graciously read my "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure

Gemini AI summarises "Cinema Signifies ..." + notes on ontology, epistemology & phenomenology (4.07.2026)

Gemini AI summarises "Cinema Signifies ..." + notes on ontology, epistemology & phenomenology (4.07.2026)

Here is a summary of the article "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality" by Simon Taylor: Core Thesis The article advances a post-cinematic theory of perception, arguing that cinema functions as a fundamental "perceiving principle" rather than just a medium or