why we should

Simone Weil has some #priorArt with the word Décréation. The word decreation assumes a creator, in Weil’s case this assumption met the problems of theodicy. If god is X, why does Y exist in creation. X may equal good or omnipotence, and Y may equal evil. Weil’s theology answers this issue by saying God withdraws from creation to allow us…

On Worlding as performance in the re-valuation of all values as efforts of judgement When I articulate the social set of outcomes of the worlding urge I short list the blur of them as follows: morality/religion/polity/culture/art/performance/market/… This series will look at one of those words performance from a number of angles provided by realising it is not cut from whole…

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…