Andrew Chrystall

"Joyce preceded to work out in detail the laws of the media which we have gradually learned to formulate as follows: that an intense impact, some shock or crisis, produces a moment of fission or abstraction of some part or function of the body and embeds it in a new material outside the body. This amounts to a new posture or situation of the old body which engenders a chain reaction both in the senses and in the environment." #McLuhan

@drewlock 🤣 ... no threat. I'd be M5.

@chipbody Ok I’ll watch out for this.

If you were competing against me, what would your strategy be?

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Download ALEATORY WRITING—my essay from Public #33, 2006 (PDF): public.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/publ…

"We have lost almost entirely the great and intricately developed sensual awareness, or sense-awareness, and sense-knowledge, of the ancients. It was a great depth of knowledge arrived at direct, by instinct and intuition, as we say, not by reason. Not until we can grasp a little of the working of the ancient mind can we appreciate the "magic" of the world they lived in. Men are far more fools today, for stripping themselves of their emotional and imaginative reactions, and feeling nothing. The price we pay is boredom and deadness. Our bald processes of thought no longer are life to us." -- D.H. Lawrence

It has never been more important to understand how the metaphorical and narrative structures of the imagination fully proceed all argumentation. We find reasonable that which fits our current imaginative structure.

@rob_rubsam The Kumulipo, the Hawai'ian creation chant, which uses Joycean punning to compress knowledge about the origins & evolution of every species in the Hawai'ian world & much else, & which was revised & augmented as it passed down through generation after generation

@EDIBLSPACESHIPS Maybe. I just sent him an email. We will see

@chipbody A bit shallow and tepid …

Meanwhile ... at Oxford: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/why-di…. Let's see what James Dilley can get away with.

@chipbody oscillating between centripetal and centrifugal forces is our new occupation 😎🍻

@realbriankemple "The process of renewal can’t come from above. It can only take the form of reawakened critical faculties. The untrancing of millions of individuals by millions of individual acts of the will..." -MM

“I see no way of sharing proven truths unless by meeting the needs of one outstanding person, even if I displease ten thousand know-nothings. I’d rather address a single soul and ignore the censure of that throng.” –Maimonides, burning the engagement-farmers, c.1185-90.

it always starts with my own “human” poetry…

It was a good run.

Try an Oaxacan Negroni. There. Just made your life better. 🍸

Where F = Figure and G = Ground ... in order to reveal the hidden structure in electromagnetic fields.