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  • Theoretical Flash Fiction: Avant L'etre Postwork Worlder

    I have much admiration for people who keep level no matter what but I don’t think that makes them models of nothing but democratic polished material. wood stone metals. Mimetic desire is part of this topos. Maybe ‘It is better… Continue reading

  • Found Speech to Text: Supersymmetry as Ghetto

    Just a tough fight star I kind of I heard I could do it again the undiscovered tell work came out all weapons what you do not more fire was was just right there were far I woes if I… Continue reading

  • Flash Fiction: Comfort Food Headphones

    Dedicated to Maja Topic The supermarket playlist is really heavy handed tonight. I now have less contempt for wireless earphone wearers. Still look like dicks but pragmatic. Bit like me really. The 80s. Embarrassing because my parents were alive. I… Continue reading

  • Poetry: Summer is A-comin' In by Ariel Riveros

    I praise god and then the tractor and then the efficacy of logistics and then truckin’ (and singlets) and then mechanics. And then time chains and plush interiors. We are at Versailles, bubbly at your end and snuff at mine.… Continue reading

  • A Consumer Critique of a Medical Model by Ariel Riveros

    Medical Model assessment stuff. Obviously to the psychologist and social worker there are normative and ethical issues around behaviourism and the medical gaze. Predictive risk management capturing domains of chaos mapping and time series nonlinear analysis. Markov chains and “damp”… Continue reading

  • CTO #3: Let's Slip Into Something More Comfortable

    There’s a story on Medical Xpress about how narcissism helps stave off stress and depression. Alongside anxiety these are now safe words to exchange in our political economy. Obviously I’m going to proffer a gambit of making the entire DSM… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Flaneur-bot Observations

    U Update thanks to my international FB philosopher and artist friends I’ll preface this with an observation on the work of Badiou by Laruelle. Laruelle sees that Badiou creates an aristocracy of continental philosopher-mathematicians. “Those without geometry are free to… Continue reading

  • Fact Checking When Hearing Voices "Ireland Was Blue"

    Heard voice: Ireland was blue Google result: In fact, blue is believed to have been associated with Ireland before green was. Henry the VIII claimed to be king of Ireland in the 16th century, and his flag at that point… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Forget Mad

    I subscribe to Mad in America. They recently promoted something called Social Psychiatry. It’s basically sociology, some eco principles, some medical anthropology. I am personally sickened at the biggest publication of the mad movement getting compromised. Obviously money is involved… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Temporal Retrosynthesis as maintenant

    Update thanks to my international FB philosopher and artist friends.  “Clinical schizophrenics are POWs from the future” – Nick Land I’ll preface this with an observation on the work of Badiou by Laruelle. Laruelle sees that Badiou creates an aristocracy… Continue reading