Month: June 2018
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ON PLAYING AND SIMULATED PLAYING
EPISODE 7 MUSIC IN PHASE TIME In the first sequence of Peter Brook’s film “Meetings With Remarkable Men,” tribes/clan people from miles around gather at the foot of a mountain range to observe a musicians challenge. The champion will not be the one who can play the fastest, or the longest piece, or the most…
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The Birth of the Cool
Liminality’s Twilight Carnival Forget sunrise, chum. Limbo’s a neon alley flickering at the frayed edges of reality. Think flophouse hallways reeking of burnt toast and broken dreams. That’s the liminal zone, man. A psychic meat grinder where selfhood gets shredded and reformed like a cut-up. Vulnerable, yeah, but potent – a cyberpunk alchemical stew bubbling…
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PARADIGMATIC MIND AND LIMINAL MIND: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL
Ric Amurrio 12 min read EPISODE 6 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE: Liminal Consciousness is the state that exists between and betwixt, at the edges of boundaries, at dawn and dusk, in the moments before falling asleep and the moments of resurfacing from the dreamtime into waking. It is a time that is often more vulnerable, but…
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The Paradigmatic and the Liminal Mind
The human mind is a complex and dynamic entity that is constantly evolving and adapting to new experiences and stimuli. In the field of psychology, there are two broad categories that are used to describe the different states of the mind: the paradigmatic and the liminal mind. These two states represent different modes of thinking…
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Woke Up
In the vapid jargon of our times, “woke” has become a bludgeon wielded by those who prefer posturing to progress. It’s a fig leaf, a way to obscure the festering wound of economic inequality. In the newspeak of our times, “woke” has become a hollow term, devoid of true rebellion. It allows the ruling class…
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The West
Ah, Western Civilization. That grand, ramshackle edifice built on a foundation of paradox and petroleum. A place where the white dove of liberty craps glittering dollar bills while a shadow, cast by a million unseen drones, stretches ominously across the globe. Act I: The Blood-Red Carpet We’re talking, my friend, about a pageant of progress…
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Gesamtkunswerk
This post is a riff: an ostinato phrase (as in jazz) based on a piece by Professor Ursula Rehn Wolfman In many of Wagner’s writings, such as Art and Religion — 1849), The Artwork of the Future — 1849 and Opera and Drama — 1852, the idea of the’Gesamtkunstwerk’ — total art — became the…
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Complicated, Complexity, Chaos
WHAT DOES COMPLEXITY MEAN? Science has progressed, at least beginning with the physical sciences, by always being reductionistic: that is, reducing things to their primary elements, whether they’re electrons, atoms, molecules, or genes and so forth. That has been enormously successful, but one of the things that we’ve begun to appreciate more and more is…
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Levels of Perspective
LEVELS OF PERSPECTIVE “ACTING” IN DIFFERENT MODES Events are very compelling because they often require an instant response. For example, if a house is burning, we react by immediately trying to put out the fire. Putting out the fire is an appropriate action, but if that’s all we ever did, it would be inadequate from…