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Baudrillard: “America”

Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 by tundranaut

Taking inventory of my summer reading. Here are some favorite passages from Jean Baudrillard‘s “America.” (Emphases mine.) Driving  This sort of travel creates its own peculiar type of even and innervation, so it also has its own special form of fatigue. Like a fibrillation of muscles, striated by the excess of heat and speed, by…

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S P E E D

Posted on July 29, 2019August 7, 2019 by tundranaut

‘Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.’ – Virilio pic.twitter.com/LB0Fgf70TK — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) July 29, 2019

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California

Posted on July 29, 2019 by tundranaut

G Faye, on California: ‘…an uninhabited, disenchanted nature, deserted by the gods: a sinister land beneath a sun that is too bright.’ pic.twitter.com/KKGZltEex2 — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) July 27, 2019

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Electroshocks

Posted on July 29, 2019 by tundranaut

‘In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination…the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.’ – Faye pic.twitter.com/WCViHq7IWn — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) July 27, 2019

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“Do you realize that we’re meteorites; almost as soon as we’re born, we have to disappear?” — Iannis Xenakis

Posted on July 23, 2019 by tundranaut
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Xenochrony

Posted on July 10, 2019August 1, 2019 by tundranaut

“In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a procedure for creating a specific kind of phonography. By altering the speed of previously recorded material and overdubbing unrelated tracks, Zappa was able to synthesize ensemble performances from scrap material… “He referred to the technique as xenochrony…Zappa translates the term as ‘strange synchronizations,’ referring to the incidental—and aesthetically…

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c҉o҉n҉c҉r҉e҉t҉e҉ s҉k҉i҉e҉s҉

Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 by tundranaut
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s u m m e r

Posted on June 23, 2019 by tundranaut

  View this post on Instagram   summer vibes Music by Brett Van Donsel A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jun 23, 2019 at 12:52pm PDT

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Tundranautaughey

Posted on June 21, 2019September 25, 2019 by tundranaut

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Barbaric, Vast & Wild

Posted on May 9, 2019 by tundranaut

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.” –Denis Diderot pic.twitter.com/k2S8ncSS5V — C e r g a t (@EmptyCobwebs) May 3, 2019

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Light Trapped in Time

Posted on May 8, 2019February 22, 2020 by tundranaut

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?” — DeLillo pic.twitter.com/ms4yiL81Ip — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) May 1, 2019

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“Existence…is the ultimate pathological state.”

Posted on May 8, 2019March 18, 2020 by tundranaut

“A dark pit has opened in the floor of the living room, and she can see the appetite for cruelty and murder that underpins the foundations of her domestic life.” https://t.co/o5BXxKAWo8 — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) May 8, 2019

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