11-5-2008
BARACKOBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!


11-2-2008
Basically everything at P.S.1 is good right now.  Especially this.


7-17-2008
M. C. Escher and the Temple of Doom


4-21-2008
The Color of Plants on Other Worlds
plus DJ Jason Orrell spins May 3 in Brooklyn:



3-30-2008
Stan Brakhage's last interview


3-16-2008



3-15-2008
"Thus in a simple physical feeling there are two actual entities concerned.  One of them is the subject of the feeling, and the other is the initial data of the feeling.  A second feeling is also concerned, namely, the objective datum of the simple physical feeling.  This second feeling is the 'objectification' of it's subject for the subject of the simple physical feeling.  The initial datum is objectified as being the subject of the feeling which is the objecive datum: the objectification is the perspective of the initial datum.

    A simple physical feeling is an act of causation.  The actual entity which is the initial datum is the 'cause,' the simple physical feeling is the 'effect,' and the subject entertaining the simple physcial feeling is the actual entity 'conditioned' by the 'effect.'  All complex causal action can be reduced to such primary components.  Therefore simple physical feelings will also be called 'causal' feelings.

    But it is equally true to say that a simple physical feeling is the most primitive type of an act of perception, devoid of consciousness.  The actual entity which is the initial datum is the actual entity perceived, the objective datum is the 'perspective' under which that actual entity is perceived, and the subject of the simple physical feeling is the perceiver.  This is not an example of conscious perception. (...)

    Thus a simple physical feeling is one feeling which feels another feeling.  But the feeling felt has a subject diverse from the subject of the feeling which feels it.  A multiplicity of simple physical feelings entering into the propositional unity of a phase constitutes the first phase in a concrescence of the actual entity which is the common subject of those feelings."
--Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 236.


2-16-2008
"It's not at all that Spinoza conceived love like he conceived digestion, he conceived digestion like love as well."


2-10-2008
Ethics and Second Order Cybernetics

And  here's this, which I have not yet watched but will soon.

1-19-2008
Another good one.

1-13-2008
Magic & Images/Images & Magic, The Brooklyn Rail from July 2006.

1-11-2008
The Met currently has installed, next to Damien Hirst's shark, a large, concave mirror tessellated from small hexagons by Anish Kapoor--a giant inverted compound eye that is worth a look into.

12-24-2007
"The principle I am adopting is that consciousness presupposes experience, and not experience consciousness.  It is a special element in the subjective forms of some feelings.  Thus an actual entity may, or may not, be conscious of some part of its experience.  Its experience is its complete formal constitution, including its consciousness, if any."
--Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 53.

11-16-2007


11-3-2007
Saw this the other night.  You should too.


11-1-2007