Richard Cole
“Invent the effects of some creature exceedingly desired by the mind: after spotting it once, it would absorb into its own a splendid fixity every which thought capable to come after it;”
AGATHE: Saint of Sleepi
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The Animal Imperfect: More, Wells & Miéville
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Rhys Williams
“Now we realize, as we stand victorious over this subdued world, that we never ceased to move. Time’s true arrow did not die but twist; became Time’s helter-skelter. A hurricane grew, blowing a wind more fierce than we had ever known. Many remained impervious, placid in the confines of the gentle centre. But many others were flung into the violent gyre to join those strangers we despised; the world swallowed in Utopia.”
Getting Wires Crossed / Science Fiction in Conversation
December 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Alexandra Manglis
“While science fiction provides us with its awkward, often graceless, technologically advanced futures, we arrive, haltingly, at our past, surprised that we have actually, as a race, lived through science fiction.”
Killjoy
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John Culbert
“The joke never fails to amuse. That said, certain conditions must be met.”
Art in the Age of Economic Recession: B.S. Johnson and Ben Lerner
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Ed Sugden
“Confronted with a dominant mode of expression, Lerner finds ways to revivify its language, finding an almost lyric beauty in words thought stripped of poetic currency – they radiate back into the world, stepping lightly as though new born.”
Subtle Bonds of the Encounter: Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) / bpNichol (1944-1988) / Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)
September 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Omar Berrada
“What if metaphysics was a branch of cinéma fantastique?”
The Astronomer’s Dream: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
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Ed Sugden
“What if cinema was a branch of metaphysics?”
Gazing Fixedly Upon Infinity: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp
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Michael Heitkemper-Yates
“The black of the infinite and the blue of stellar transition, heaven, the cosmic sea, are balanced in contrast by the white of the moon-sphere, the soap bubble pipe, and the ghostly border which both separates and connects the lower portion — the physical realm — to the stars above.”
Not Simply for Those Moments’ Sake: A Retroactive Manifesto for Late- Twentieth Century Pop Music
June 5th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Alex Niven asks:
Where has the magic moment gone?