A simple creature, bound within a temporal stream as we are, finds itself living a rich symbolic life supported by myriad narrative inventions, of beginnings and notional teleologies and idealised (or ideological) end-states
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Semiotic Elasticity
There is in essence no true “outside” or inalienable “counter” culture; everything exists on some interior surface, warped and twisted back upon and through itself…
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Eros and Thanatos
…most of us blunder our way through the world (at least, but not solely – emotionally) from one disaster to another. We seek that Other that is only ever going to be superficially “right” for us because at some deep level of awareness we know that our very essential nature and psychological being requires dissonance and discontinuity to continue to exist…
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Bureaucratic Inertia
Your average bureaucracy could not fight it’s way out of a wet paper bag…
We are all products…
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Doubling Down
Even in that classical bond and inscription of participatory cultural self-validation we know of as “marriage”, catastrophic loneliness can arrive on any day and at any hour…
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Digital Insecurity
There exists a non-trivial difference and distance between the grandiose claims of technological consistency and efficacy made by corporations and the empirical facts of an unrelenting litany of catastrophic security failures.
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In passing…
I remember when I was first introduced to en passant and after the initial shock, denial and eventual aquiescence to the expanded rule-set and spectrum of possibility of that great game of Chess, I could never quite dispel that lingering paranoia that at any moment…
The aesthetics of memory, of self…
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Reciprocity
We live through each other or not at all.
Axiomatic emptiness…
The world feels a little like some complex tapestry in which we are constantly weaving design in at one end while the other end unravels…
Daedelus Kite 