I have moved some of my comments onto the <<empyre>> listserv this past several days, named a soft_skinned_space by Melinda Rackham its founder, in Melbourne, 2002, now based at Cornell. I was moved to pass on Levi Bryant’s article “A World is Ending,

Dear reader, As you will by now already be aware, approximately 2 billion of earth’s human inhabitants have found themselves under voluntary or enforced, and everything along the continuum, home arrest, otherwise called ‘self isolation.’ These have also had foisted upon them a physical noncontact zone called ‘social distancing.

…the difficulty of taking on Chomsky’s warnings about the threat to democracy is that it has already been given away because of the threat posed to it by authoritarian takeover, most latterly shown to insist in populism. …the social order henceforth and the market are coincident. No coherent political

Mike sent me this from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Thanks! So… …at least it’s… AIDS / HIV is said to have claimed 25 – 35 million victims since 1981 no recent pandemic compares, except the Spanish flu the giant remains the bubonic plague but there’s something quick, nasty and

Raymond Ruyer’s book Neofinalism begins, after the death of God the question is not What is true? but What makes sense? The question is not whether this or that truly exists but whether its existence makes sense. Its existence, Ruyer is quick to point out, implies ours: does yours

It’s a beautiful evening. The tui are sending out their last and simplest songs of the day, just a few notes. The bellbirds in the Marlborough Sounds–that are not Sounds, neither are the fiords of Fiordland fiords–at their most improvisatory outdo tui, and are often mistaken for