Future Fossils/Weird Studies

25 Feb 2022 08:30 - 30 Jun 2023 07:28
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    • Ep is from 2019
    • SFI has a critique of materialist science, but Garfield still feels drawn to the fringe (OK that I can buy into).
    • "No man is an island, but some are very long peninsulas"
    • Etymology of weird ≡ wyrd ≡ twisted ≡ fractal
    • "It's all fun and games until someone loses an I" (Zen dad joke)
    • Fractalnoia – name for the condition induced by crazy internet media
    • Crowley should be up with Pound, Einstein, Picasso as modernist figure
      • Hrm rm, here's where I kind of part with the WS guys. They want Crowley and the weird to be outsiders but also recognized as insiders. I sense a contradiction. To be fair it's probably one they are well aware of, they talk about things like this sometimes, and it's not like I'm some outlaw purist.
    • Grammar of Process, myth shows the shape of things (OK, thats on my wavelength). Ontological morphology
    • Dōgen episode of WS: singularity of the moment. Should listen to that one.
    • The creepy avidity of life...finding an opening and seething through. Your geraniums look beautiful and homey but it's the same thing. A loathsome profigacy (From Lovecraft). Source of all beauty?
    • Talk by John Pepper at National Cancer Institute. About nutrition and cancer as a metabolic thing. Sugar and petroleum have tumorized us.
    • Some pseudoscience UFO thing...oy.
    • Disruption as weirding capitalism. Cash in and be Weird Consultants, get spots on CNN explaining the Weird Times too the masses
    • WS will die if there is ever a WS department...WS is what escapes the episteme. Compared later to TAZ theory of Hakim Bey – as soon as utopia is identified it becomes distopia.
    • Fundamental problem of academia: Originality vs. Evaluation. Things need to be replicable and that is counter to personal vision. Just how things work. WS is always about things that elude categorization, replication, standardization.
    • David Weinberger, Everyday Chaos