New Years Day
start the New Year in Hualapai Mountain Park, near Kingman, Arizona. up at high altitude in the Douglas Fir. granite boulders. a campfire of pine cones and needles with a few branches. quiet and cold...
View Articleherding cats
choosing pathways. a teachers way is a constant risk of sketching a path of collective character. Greg said something about herding cats in another context. seems appropriate, kinda. nah, teaching is...
View Articlebody on the edge of crisis
hustle into town yesterday evening for some dance performances, with Aki doing one on the steps of the Atheneum to a composition “Everything but the city” by a young Dutch composer, Rijndert van...
View Articlelocative?
smartmoblogsociallocativefictiongpsteredmedia creatures feeding one on the other, in a frenzy of “what’s next that’s cool” and built for speed. (which ultimately will move ‘it’ on to the next “Next Big...
View Articlehbr says
just as I had observed and inferred from bits of data that I have seen over the past few years. that the US is in serious crisis regarding the precipitous drop in the numbers of creative talent...
View Articlepenthouse
the first day: the feng shui of the room is complicated by rafters, skyLights, and the orientation of the bed. will have to think about that. meeting Milos who is terribly sick with this flu epidemic...
View Articlebecome republican
JC sends this to da40 — become republican I respond, sotto voce: only too true, though personally I’m not so rabidly anti-Jesus. it’s the zealots who, as the cartoon points out, hide behind His words...
View ArticleCSM
meet Rafael in the morning, speaking about the political economies of soft game authoring; lunch with Steve, we decided the last time we saw each other was 21 years ago when I walked out of the...
View Articlememories of fire
aren’t disco balls just enhanced simulators for dancing around a fire? what’s the dif? why not dance around a fire more often? gyrate under washes of starLight with limb warming fire to back and front...
View Articlenow that’s news!
Chris mentioned that old CSM amigo George Saunders just had a MacArthur Fellowship bestowed on hissef. well, dang, George, congrats! I had to chuckle when I went to his fan site and saw it had been...
View Articlelunar dreams
a nice network crossing late with Fernanda, in Berlin now, formerly from ISNM. in crisis mode, figuring out some steps to take next in life. she had written me a couple days back, after returning from...
View Articleperambulations
clearly lost at words. in words, without words, for words, back words. energy ebbed under the circumstances. the demise of the workshop still a real bother. will be into the future. and not very...
View ArticleUni-see
so it goes. pedagogic extravagances, personal liberties, dialogue, Light, revolution, action. and so on… questions arising from the second round of dialogue pairs yesterday: Why are you looking for a...
View Articleto be done
the last day of the year is spent with Zander and Bill going falconing with a serious professional falconer, Tom, who was hawk-sitting Zander’s Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) for the time they were...
View ArticleIce Land
Wow, the lid is blowing off the formerly staid and sheep-like Icelandic society. Following the collapse of their entire economy from top to bottom, side to side, Icelanders are finally making a vocal...
View Articlefragmentation
… this false reification of the self is basic to the planetary ecological crisis in which we find ourselves. We have imagined that we are a unit off survival and we have to see to our own survival, and...
View ArticleThe Military
(extracted and edited from The Regime of Amplification) The second example — though it is a much more complex combination of pathways in its geo-political and material deployments and in its...
View Articlethe American Dream is only to survive
David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times writes in this commentary on New Years Day: Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology,...
View ArticleDistance versus Desire :: Clearing the ElectroSmog (Eric Kluitenberg)
The desire to transcend distance and separation has accompanied the history of media technology for many centuries. Various attempts to realize the demand for a presence from a distance have produced...
View Articlevolume
Oh hell, what pretense to think that I could really get any sensible writing done here, when all other mediums seem to fail me as well. Concentration lags behind — a result of very poor physical...
View ArticleLoki’s dreams
Leaving the flat in Lahti, after a relatively long stay of four weeks, I immediately experience the stress of movement-insecurity. And again, it plunges me into a state of ineffectiveness. Crisis...
View Articlefallacious criteria
all things unravel. and I am in planes, buses, and taxis. south to north. plus or minus. no messages on the phone as I leave range for word to come. hauntings. futures compress, pasts well up, present...
View Articlecrux?
the day is a blur. truly a Monday morning. late evening phone calls, full of silent pauses, where each are trying to catch a psychic breath, letting heart gather stillness, let chest push open beyond...
View Articleshopping?
the next day. shopping, late wake up, well, 0800, which is relatively late. shopping makes me feel terrible, or maybe it is being in Helsinki, looking at every face in the passing crowd to see: will I...
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