why we should

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…

The world is a blur at best. Bad worlding can root itself in definitions, using them like hammers for everything in sight. Possibly because of kosmophasia. Good intentions can go either way, badly as often as best. Bad intentions are the same effort without— that within— with no one — worldless. They will destroy the world in order to save…