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Time, The Contents Of Which Are Unknowable

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Apparently there was too much happy news, because a new theory has been aired suggesting that in 100 million years the universe will start contracting back into the infinitely dense dot of hot garbage it started out as. But we won’t be able to test that theory for another 65 million years or so.

We won’t miss that time. In 2016, we had already watched 400 million years’ worth of YouTube videos.

I mean, if you were wondering why, “despite the surge in sales of fitness trackers, physical activity declined from 1995 to 2017,” that would seem to be a pertinent data point.

There’s probably also a point to be made here about how, to use Twitter the way Twitter wants you to, you basically have to make it your job, but other people are getting to that for me.

Joseph Tisiga: The contents of which are unknowable to the human mind, 2022
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I am experiencing what a writer acquaintance calls “brain clog” as I try to work up a set of new projects, which means my discipline and mindfulness is slipping everywhere else, including here. So I’m spending a couple of days in the kitchen to let my back-brain work on the problem. Sometimes I just have to disconnect the drive at the front of my head because it’s just spinning aimlessly. First up, fresh eggs.

Participation Mystique

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Carl Jung had an interesting theory about creative fiction and its relationship with an audience. He called it ‘participation mystique’, and in essence it was this: A writer or an artist writes something intense and creative, and the reader understands it as if he or she were the actual writer.


It’s as though the writer has projected all kinds of unconscious material onto the fiction. Jung goes on to say that fiction becomes fact, and that the most bizarre experiences can take place within the narrative because the reader is experiencing it directly. There is no need to suspend disbelief because the reader is ‘in’ the story.

THE THIRTY-SIX DRAMATIC SITUATIONS, Mike Figgis (UK) (US)

Timewind

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Colourised and speed-corrected footage of San Francisco in 1906.

Astronaut habitats on Mars will have to be buried 1.5 metres under the surface. Shielding isn’t going to cut it. “…the presence of this shielding can lead to “cosmic ray showers,” where the impact of (heavy-ion radiation) against shielding creates secondary particles that can flood a habitat’s interior with varying levels of neutron radiation (aka. neutron flux). These can contribute significantly to the effective dose of radiation astronauts will absorb.”

“If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven’t we heard from them? Those are the simple questions at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. In a new paper, a pair of researchers ask the next obvious question: How long will we have to survive to hear from another alien civilization? Their answer? 400,000 years.“

This Extreme Tension

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The interesting thing about present-day events is not the events themselves, but this state of intellectual turmoil into which minds are plunged, this extreme tension, for they unendingly plunge us into a state of conscious confusion. That all this disturbs the mind without making it lose its balance is a moving way of expressing the innate pulse of life.

THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE, Antonin Artaud, 1938 (UK) (US)

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Amazon plans to support EPUB on Kindle by the end of the year, apparently. You can already kinda get EPUB formats on to Kindle by emailing files to your Kindle and putting the word “convert” in the subject header, but it’s always a roll of the dice and formatting is often not respected. Or you can use a program called Calibre to try and make the conversion to Amazon format yourself.

Outsiders

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There’s a new Kemper Norton record:

The album was provoked by a selection of reports of UFO/USO sightings at various locations in Cornwall , and particularly focuses on the anticipation and aftermath surrounding unexplained, momentous or transformative events. “Estrenyon” is Cornish for ” outsiders”.

“In the coming months, two teams of astronomers are going to send messages into space in an attempt to communicate with any intelligent aliens who may be out there listening. These efforts are like building a big bonfire in the woods and hoping someone finds you. But some people question whether it is wise to do this at all.“

“Juan Emar (1893–1964) was born Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi but was “Pilo” to his friends, and later, during his years as an art critic, he went by the name Jean Emar: “J’en ai marre, “which means “I’m fed up” in French.” Nice piece on the avant-garde outsider writer.

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