American Cultland — Greek Life Enculturating Debauched Robots: “…brutal lessons of totalitarianism and conformity. Indoctrination is responsibility. Abuse is friendship. Dissipation and lasciviousness is the height of living. And so, many hundreds of thousands automatons are born per year. ” An Everyday Mercy: “‘A child doesnโt learn metaphysics by reading books. He learns it by…
Tag: unplaces
Lost and Found in the Cartographical Matrix
I’ve been thinking about “place” a lot lately. Thinking about “place” led to me write this blog post, which got me digging through the great book Applied Ballardianism again, and a chapter called “Cartographies of the Infinite,” where author Simon Sellars contemplates whether future cities can be “tuned to produce a kind of stereoscopic urbanism.”…
STEREOSCOPIC URBANISM
‘In Ballard, trends (and flaws) in architectural design are pursued to their logical extremes…the unspoken tension and psychopathology engendered by such scenarios is recycled, reheated and allowed free rein to play itself out to the bitterest of ends.’https://t.co/IbcFM5dpfU โ ััะฟะดัะฐะฟะฐัั (@tundranaut) March 20, 2020 SOURCE: Ballardian.com: “In a sense, Ballardโs work is about nothing but…
Unplaces in the Simulation
one of the weirdest photos I've taken. Space-time intervened and fragmented everything in the picture. I doctored nothing. pic.twitter.com/eFzLvJ6juc — ััะฟะดัะฐะฟะฐัั (@tundranaut) February 22, 2020
N + 7 Poem
I ran the text from this site’s About page through a generator called the N + 7 Machine, which: …involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary. (In French, it is also referred to as the ‘S+7’ procedure.)…you can enter an English text and 15 alternative texts…