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Metastate of Exception

Monday, June 26, 2017

The anthropocene means a “permanent” — intensifying, long-duration — state of exception. Reichstäglich fires: Western democracy burns and burns. It’s capital! The tire fire, the coal bed fire. Natural causes. A metastate of exception? What is a “metastate?” Wikipedia says: “In statistical mechanics, the metastate is a probability measure on the space of all thermodynamic states for a system with quenched randomness.” As […]

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Not Your President

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

“Not my president.” The phrase need not be thought defiant or felt as performance of defiance. It’s merely observational. Descriptive. Instead of subordinating himself to the position – or even pretending to – Trump subordinates it to himself. He overwrites the role with himself and in this sense he is not anyone’s president. This is the authoritarian style. He […]

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Target One

Monday, January 2, 2017

no thing clever to say isn’t nothing enough to have said and been done with

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Get to the point (don’t think of an elephant, don’t think of a donkey) [12-minute trigger]

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

12-minute trigger is a daily writing project: 1) set the timer for 12 minutes and write soon after waking up; 2) see what happens; 3) continue or don’t (but wrap it up fairly quickly, regardless, as one must get on with one’s day); and 4) lightly edit and post here (or don’t: sometimes it’s too personal or too […]

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Kansas City: Earth Laughs in Flowers (12-minute trigger)

Monday, July 25, 2016

12-minute trigger is a daily writing project: 1) set the timer for 12 minutes and write soon after waking up; 2) see what happens; 3) continue or don’t (but wrap it up fairly quickly, regardless, as one must get on with one’s day); and 4) lightly edit and post here (or don’t). Train and traffic sounds. The neighbor’s birdbath […]

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Moving

Friday, May 2, 2014

This web presence is moving. Perhaps more on paranoia and conspiracies – more specifically on these things and not things in general – here, later. At the very least, parked in case China blocks tumblr and there’s some reason to blog both sides of the Great Firewall. 

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Off the center of the edge of the world

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

  Chinese workers dismantle the 2010 World Expo UK Pavilion aka the “Seed Cathedral,” a high-tech apparition moaning “ecological sustainablity” which now haunts the ex-Expo grounds…   Fascinating (as almost always) chatter (no, not “chatter,” heavy matter but yet… chatter) from the neoreactionaries as they anticipate with mixed thoughts and feelings their moment in the “klieg lights.” Techcrunch’s Geeks for […]

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STOP TALKING TO YOURSELF

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

    The charge of silence — No poem works in my mind for more than a moment and that’s both the (remaining) attraction and the (growing) distraction. I mean more like more as in moar but also more like NO MORE, like more no moar, even though “no more” doesn’t get you a fraction of a strobe flash of […]

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