why we should

Recently I made some notes about stupidity, suspension of disbelief, and recent story-telling. They came up because this week I read Glenorchy Boy by John Dale. This is set centred on the northern suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania, of a lad coming into the grey zones of responsibility, relationships and restrictions. Mistakes are made, here and there, and avoided. Sort of.

Some while ago I read the phrase “art is his religion”. Where I saw this I have no idea. I do remember that in was in a context in which everyone was expected to know this. When I saw it I re-parsed it from my [selfing the world :: worlding the self] Janus dance, as “worlding is his worlding” and…

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…