AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
A followup to the last episode, talking about the postwar Greenwich Village scene, the Casssavetes movie Shadows and Kafka was the Rage. They were circling an idea, something about how the ciry and specific scenes like this are "imaginal", their favorite word. From a certain angle I agree completely, but they also insist on framing it as an irruption of something pre-existing into the material world, rather than an active embodied creation of embodied beings. If I have to find something to gripe about, and I do.
It's in the title and in the show notes: "The city, long considered the human artifact par excellence, comes to seem like something that comes from outside the ambit of humanity."