Offline day: finishing up in the office and then out for lunch, shopping and then a gig.
We’ve learned to crave feeds that impose a steady stream of unconscious, dreamlike images we struggle to forget, but also to fully remember. In the millisecond interval during which we might practice perception, a “reconstructive doing,” another image already enters into our view. The patterns of digital media extinguish this interval, though they don’t make it impossible.
Once Terence McKenna suggested the most sought-after drug we could invent would be one that allows us to remember all of our dreams. We may have built something close, except the dreams aren’t ours, and we can’t quite wake up from them.
But the only way out, as McKenna might say, might be through.
OPERATIONS: marking up the boards AGAIN and setting a proper schedule for next week, I need to move sixty pages out of the office in the next week and it’s going to be a grind.
LAST WATCHED: SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE (2025) is, sadly, a more conventional film than the original. Still lots of bloody fun, but too similar to the original in its beats to be as enjoyable, trying harder to be “emotional” while losing some of the little textual depth that made the first film surprising. But there are a couple of good jokes in there – the bit with the spoon in the final fight is a nice touch, as is the last weapon our man used. Which is, as the film itself leads you to say to yourself, legendary.
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