Computing Providence: “…PKD had the best interpretation of the I Ching in his novel The Man in the High Castle, where the I Ching is a tool to ‘compute’ whether something has reality (or is reality).”
Into the Psychozoic: “The Psychozoic dawns when we start to take responsibility for developing metis with the psychosphere; when we dedicate ourselves to navigating and shaping the World-Psyche – all its layers, from the individual to the collectives to the planetary — for the simple reason that we are always already doing it, so it’s on us to do it well.”
The Cosmic Chiasmus: “…the shape of a chiasmus is parabolic. Etymologically, it lobs things next to each other, it juxtaposes; just like a symbol ‘lobs things together’ (or something diabolic ‘lobs things apart’)…Due to its concentric structure, in a chiasmus, everything is central by virtue of having a center. Your idea of what that center is can then expand and contract symbolically to consider just the peak of the mountain or the whole mountain all together. The chiastic parabola is the same as a symbolic mountain. Meaning flows from the center and fills the whole, like the rivers of paradise feeding the world.”
The Future of the Art World: “One of the most important roles of art is to educate the public taste. Our art is bad because our aesthetic sensibility is mutilated — and also the other way around. Our nerves are overstimulated, and our critical faculties are shattered. There’s no longer even still a public to educate. We live in a malfunctioning database indexed by consumer pathologies — global culture reflects this. But I think we are coming to the end of this era. To paraphrase Pamela Long, our current situation recalls the world of late antiquity: an era of changing boundaries, including psychological boundaries, as the extended, horizontal expanse of the Global American Empire begins to contract in favor of clandestine networks operating outside the formal structure of the state. Art is already adapting to this emerging landscape. We will continue to see a flight from exhibition value to cult value — a return already telegraphed by the twentieth-century avant gardes. The recent Russian film project DAU was a prototype. Ultimately we’ll see a new aesthetics of cults sculpting total environments and immersive experiences — and not as merely experiences but as new forms of life. Not all of this will be beautiful: some of it will be ugly on a scale that we can scarcely imagine. But either way, beyond the precincts of the global culture industry, art is entering an exciting time.”
Things will continue to get stranger and stranger pic.twitter.com/kSoxqc6Q3z
— Unconscious Abyss 𓃐𓉱𓁟 (@consciousabyss) January 20, 2024