why we should

I’ve been following, very loosely, other people’s readings of Henri-Louis Bergson for sometime, as I have other writer’s works, but he has been a slow burn. Once so popular, now remembered by items found like second-hand curios. Many of us linger like that, but he was really really well-known. So reading Emily Herring’s Herald of a Restless World: How Henri…

In 2011 an exhibition called Awfully wonderful, science fiction in contemporary art took place in Sydney. In the library I work in a colleague asked me about the following paragraph from the exhibition's book: Lizzie Muller. “Speculative Objects and the Total Perspective Vortex.” Awfully Wonderful : Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, Performance Space, 2011. From a copy in the Phrontisterion. What…

When I was about twenty-two years old, and freshly sprung from a teenaged grove of science fiction by way of Hofstadter ‘s Godel Escher Bach, and 80s post-Punk anarchism, and chaos and complexity theory had yet to make its mark… —I would say I was an “asystems anarchist”. Or, what we need is ‘asystem”. So now at 60 I will…

Having ① a clannish [herb] (Polish coat of arms) on which a red field grounds a golden snake in the form of an analemma, and ② played a team sport which required players (against our desires) to be numbered on their jersey, which in our team’s case were also red, and so I chose ∞, it is with great interest that i…

Mathematicianss are shamans, like poets they don't know it. To frame this conundrum of metaphor versus identity I will first look ‘mapping’ as used in mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism (off you go, transport yourself to us all). It would appear that mathematicians use the analogy of ‘mapping’ with some Greek-originating words like isomorphic, or morely nounly, isomorphism to label the process while often retaining ‘mapping’ for…

Jaar : a pidgin-midwifery conlang 1.4, July 2026 by meika loofs samorzewskiversion 1.4, 2026-07-25 transferred from original html v1.3 2020-10-16. So first published on a wordpress site at: formeika. [1]. See also meika.loofs-samorzewski.com, whyweshould (self-hosted) and substack.com to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life [2] Jaar is a meta-conlang, a constructed language ennabler for speakers with 'no' common language to help create a working pidgin…