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>>>…|||>>>|>?… Pop, Geekdom & MAFS

in an interview with Simon Denny, Quinn Slobodian identifies 2 of what Denny calls sub-art worlds, of people “programming at big cultural institutions, and museums especially, rather than galleries”: 1. “culturally engaged art plugging directly into marginalised identities and oppressed groups”… 2. another genre which “delves into the intersection of

the types of moving image, from surface detail – a quote, quoted for its eventual use in the series about cinematic time, that starts with “Enduring Dreams”

So, make your mind up. Real space view with potential scariness, or some screen; gentle feel-good, wistful comedy, razor-sharp witterage, outright slapstick hilarity, engrossing human drama, historical epic, educational documentary, ambient meanderance, pure art appreciation, porn, horror, sport or news? Real space view, thanks. [for what I am referring to

me too, a visionary activism restoring the political imagination

The global challenges we face today provide an unprecedented invitation for collective transformation. There is an opportunity to remember how to listen, see, and sense clearly from the heart. There are hidden powers within us that we have forgotten that await us in the presence of darkness. True vision is

chain(links) & magic(realism): US prisons ban fantasy and scifi

the first link lays it out: “it’s especially cruel that U.S. prisons ban magical literature.” — Moira Marquis, “Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction,” LITHUB, December 7, 2023 — Francesco Queirolo, Disinganno, 1753 … to be free of illusion …? [the title of the sculpture can be given as…

L E C T U R E_A B O U T_Ø

‘All I know about method,’ Cage writes at the end of ‘Lecture on Nothing,’ ‘is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.’ Others might call that enlightenment.

pico Iyer from the half known life: excerpts | wrong dream

Find a heaven within, Rumi had written–and it came back to me now as Ali, the driver and I sat on a platform in the sun, munching on chicken with barberries–and you enter a garden in which “one life is worth more than all of Paradise.” It had

… take the only tree that’s left/ stuff it up the hole in your culture … or, my robot left home to solve the world’s problems

… in January 2020 Greta Thunberg went as far as to specify just eight years [to avert a global castrophe]. Just a few months later, the president of the UN’s General Assembly gave us 11 years to avert a complete social collapse whereupon the planet will be simultaneously burning (unquenchable