Weird Studies/Murakami & Borges
29 Mar 2026 - 29 Mar 2026
- The Murakami story
- Ref to Technic and Magic. A labyrynth, because there is a plan that is hidden (from both reader and protagonist)
- The circle whose center is everywhere, whose circumference is everywhere (Nicolas de Cusa), Borges attributes to Hermes Trismegistus.
- Borges story
- Ethan Weed A Labyrinth of Symbols: Exploring 'The Garden of Forking Paths'. A theory of labyrinthine texts (hm how does this relate to hypertext? Is that too literal? )
Borges’ stories have a strange capacity to infiltrate what we call reality, much like the world of Tlön, a labyrinth “devised by men […] destined to be deciphered by men”
A labyrinthine story does not present a puzzle to be solved, but rather a puzzle to not be solved.
- Borges Circular Ruins also fits this pattern of repitition.
- Wilson, Robert Rawdon. ”Godgames and Labyrinths: The Logic of Entrapment”. Mosaic. 15:4 (1982): 1-22
- End of Twin Peaks, Cooper realizes he is in a labyrinth. Lost Highway even more so.
- The crystalline moments (yes). Things happen only in the present.
- Contingency and necessity. (I hate this trope)
- Leibniz and the best of all possible worlds. Deleuze disagreed.
- What is a world where divination makes sense. Jodo, wouldn't make sense in a deterministic world (?)
I am absolutely opposed to reading hypothetical futures.