Alt Economy of Inner Night: “Dream can be understood as the microleakage of the subconscious blackbox through which an insurrectionary consciousness may infiltrate. It is here, wading through a thick confused mess of oneself that the dreamer takes on the role of a lonesome trader who might find automated kiosks in the simulated likeness of the abject-forms which they’d encountered in the waking.”
A Violent Blossom of Time: “The language of an Octopus is colour. Like our breath, they can modulate it consciously for intended aims—as in camouflage or conflict—but it operates autonomically too. When their guard slips their skin can betray the shades of their emotional lives, like our own frightened gasps, or our breath when dreaming; their’s is a swaying chromatic sleep-talk. ”
“I’ve Been Scared of Those Monkeys All My Life” | On [David] Lynch, Oz, and the Enduring Power of Both: “Unlike the work of, say, Edward Hopper and Alfred Hitchcock—both major influences on Lynch—where the world is cold and desolate and where interpersonal relations, to the degree they occur at all, are based on tricks and transactions, Lynch’s work exudes warmth even at its most grotesque. His films are full of smiles and sunshine, hugs and handshakes, and the moments of torment are always juxtaposed with romance, friendship, and people sincerely communicating their appreciation of being alive. ”
Palliative Technologies: “Human beings need stimulation. We need to know ourselves in relation to the world. And if the system we inhabit is designed to prevent self-insight and self-understanding, we will be forced to seek out ever more exaggerated forms of stimulation to break through the fog of palliation. To put this provocatively, paradoxically, taking all the guns away may result in even more mass shootings.”
Understanding the “Regimevangelical” Phenomenon: “… the Christian community in America is going to have to develop a political consciousness of its own, separate from the American forms and institutions of power. The Christian community will need to learn to see itself as a Christian nation living within the borders of America. It will have to claim its own sovereignty. It will have learn to protect itself.”