Wednesday, November 30, 2005

 

If Science is the discovery of the natural laws to which we are bound, a veritable knocking on objects, if you will...

and 'reality' is the context in which we eek out our miserably pathetic existences, then the grim concrete necropolis cosmopolis is hideously, inescapably, inevitably real.
however, if science is nothing but the projection of an imaginary socially enduced powergrab our feelers out into our world have been cut; and we live in a solipsistic 'hungry ghost realm.' ah yes ;)
'nothing but' and 'only' are limiting factors.
if we think of science as the projection, or rather, construction, of a socially enduced powergrab that acts by constructing 'natural' laws that can either wrestle 'nature' to the ground by calling it nature, or give voice to the voiceless; speak for the trees and the bugs and the birds and the bees. science makes things talk. but only because they are allready 'talkable.' we reach out and create our universe, but we do it with stuff.
all this adds up to precisely nothing more, and nothing less then the anthromorphic perspective that transformation occurs simultaneously between all actants. (hu)mankind's vision transforms the world that transforms it- we are made of the world. we construct the world of which we are made. the world constructs us, those of which it is made. reflexivity. circulatory dilation, dillution and dissemination of information, data, codes, viruses, money, power, roots, stems, leaves, bugs, bones, nerves, pheremones, insceticide, ozone, hydrogen bombs, vaccums, aids, herpes, acids, bases, words, jokes, numbers, bargraphs and spreadsheetws.
ANTHROMORPHOLOGY
any takers?

Monday, November 28, 2005

 

People dont get.

it.

is a thing you see because it turns your gaze away.
suicides the self until
your eyes collapse in on themselves.

smashing glass barefoot in the hall of mirrors
blood on the image
of the thing.

dont forget to check your mirror
in the mirror
because a mirror is a thing
like anything else.

it tells the only truth it knows.
and it too
can be smashed
and used
to cut out your eyeballs.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

 

The Question of the Day.

Can a single word ACT in many different ways, depending on its context?
and if so, does the ACT of placing the word in different context change the meaning of the word ACT?
or is the word ACT itself the process of becoming the meaning of the word ACT?
is there a single tangible word act that soildifies the meaning of the word act, such as the placing of the word in the context of a dictionary?
does the act of looking up the word act constitute a pointless action?
acta: f minutes; (cerificado.) certificate.
activar: vt activate; (acelerar) speed up. ~ idad activity ~ o a active. m, assets
oh shit. wrong dictionary. what does that act mean? what is the meaning of my action? is it all just an act?
OED
acid rock: n a style of rock music popular in the lat 1960s, associated with hallucinogenic drugs.
acid test: a conclusive test of success or value ~origin figuratively, from the original use denoting a test for gold using nitric acid.
acidulate: v. make slightly acidic. ~derivatives acidulated adj. acidulation. n.
~origin C18: L. lit. 'a kernel'
acid drop: a boiled sweet with a sharp taste.
acid house: n. a kind of synthesized dance music with a fast repetitive beat, associated with the taking of drugs.
acidemitry: n. measurement of the stregnths of acids.
acid jazz: n. a kind of dance music incorporating elements of jazz, smfunck, soul and hip hop
acidophillic: adj. biology 1. relating to or denoting cells readily stained with acid dyes. 2. growing best in acid conditions.
acidophilus: n. a bacterium used to make yogurt. ~origin: 1920s, mod. L., lit. acid-loving.
ACID: n. 1. a substance (typically a corrosive or sour tasting liquid) with particular chemical properties including turning litmus red, neutralizing alkalis, and dissolving some metals. >chemistry any moelcule able to donate a proton or accept electrons in reactions. 2. informal. the drug LSD adj. 1. containing or having the properites of an acid; having a pH of less than 7. >geology & metallurgy rich in silica. 2. sharp-tasting (DZING!) or sour. 3. (of remarks) bitter or cutting. ~ derivatives: acidic adj. acidification n. acidify v. acidity n. acidly adv. acidy adj. ~origin C17: from L. acidus, from acere 'be sour.'

ACT: abbrev. 1. advance corporation tax. 2. Australian Capital Territory
act: v. 1. take action: do something > act up. informal. behave badly. 2. act for/on behalf of. represent on a contractual or legal basis. > as adj. acting. temporarily doing the duties of another. 3. take effect or have a particular effect. 4. perform a fictional role in a play or film behave so as to appear to be: I acted dumb. >act something out. perform a narrative as if it were a play. n. 1. a thing done. 2. a simulation or pretence >a particular type of behaviour or routine: he did his Sir Galahad Act 3. law. a written ordinance of parliament, congress, etc. 4. dated. a record of the decisions or proceedings of a commitee or an academic body. 5. a main division of a play, ballet, or opera. 6. a set performance.
PHRASES
act of God an instance of uncontrollable natural forces in operation. act of grace. a priveliege or concession that cannot be claimed as a right. that cannot be claimed as a right. get (or be) in on the act. informal. become (or be) involved in a particular activity, in order to gain an advantage.
~derivatives actabilitiy n. actable. adj. acting n.
~origin ME: from L. actus 'event, thing done' from actagere 'do, act' reinforced by fr. acte.

actant: n. grammar. 1. a noun or noun phrase involved in the action expressed by a verb. 2. (in literary theory) a person, creature, or object playing a role in a narrative.

actinian: n. zoology. a sea anemony

ACTOR, ACTANT: Actant is a term from semiotics covering both humans and nonhumans: an actor is an entity that modifies another entity in a trial; of actors it can only be said that they act; their competence is deduced from their performances; the action, in turn, is always recorded in the course of a trail and by an experimental protocol, elementary or not. (b. latour. the politics of nature.)

 

a(e)y(e)see in the mirror.

do you see what i see?
am i what you see when you see me?
are the eyes i see with the eyes you see when you look into my ayes?

ayse why you see
when you look where i see
aye sieze what ayse seas
when she eyes the sea.

or does ayse eye the sea
to see what the ayes see
when she sees she sees that i see she ayes me?
(but she cant see me
because aye cant see
what ayse sees
every time she eyes me.)

ayse a b'y 'sat builds a boat
ayse a b'y sat sails her
ayse a b'y sat catches a fish
and takes it home to ayse.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

 

Anthromorphology

Anthromorphology is a new field of intellectual expoloration, an attempt to bring together the fields of anthropology, philosophy, poetry and science studies in order to cultivate a new, deeper understanding of what it is to be human (or non-human,) to create (or discover) to live (or to die) breathe, build, deconstruct, collapse etc. etc. etc. A study of human activity in the natural world that collapses the distinction between both an essentialized 'Nature' and an isolated principle of the 'human' that 'interacts' with it.
Anthromorphology was developped through the study of such archeological wonders as the nasca lines, macchu picchu, and the egyptian and mexican pyramids; sites in which the purpose, plan and inspiration for the epic scale construction seems to have been completely oriented around a quasi-transcendental experience of the 'natural surroundings' of which they seem to be an experession.
This blog will print various writings, pictures, essays, poems and stories in this brand new academic field, in an attempt to render manifest the new possibilities in "human" thought: the eradication of the human as a single concrete unity separate from the animal, and the birth of the word as actanct.
Let the Wild Rumpus Start!

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