...manifestos and tangents, the ergonomics of awareness inhabiting the data shoals, building pyramids out of pebbles and lighting shipwrecks for smoking from the magnified mirror lens of the ocean's buttered-up starbelly, digging the gundpowered kegs of dreamcrust from awakening eyes, the long fuse of spine sputtering golden and snaking toward the hot-tin twin rails, stock-market analyists on the edge of their seats frying eggs on their foreheads drinking coffee one suger two motor oils please, good morning strange calamity, where were we?
Shklovsky defines defamiliarization as making the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. He talks about an economy of perception, about how normal perception is budgeted, limited, filtered, in order to make functional living and survival possible. Defamiliarization, then, is a process of removing the tyranny of familiar meaning from things and returning to them their actual state of radical truth in continual becoming and possibility, what Baxter calls "truth caught in midair" -- truth glimpsed half-naked through the lighted window of the iris...
Liberation:
01. DE-CONDITIONing and de-programming all violent, limiting, self-absorbed scripts that have been imprinted by culture and society; breaking down all negative habit-patterns in one’s individual thinking and perception.
02. TRANSCENDing both personal and social conditioning, and directly perceiving the chaotic harmony and limitless possibility inherent in the underlying fabric of reality...
03. RE-CONDITIONing the mind by integrating experiential wisdom and actively cultivating new patterns of positive thinking, critical perception, compassion, openness, honesty and integrity.
04. EMBODYing wisdom and compassion in living action, by sharing vision and helping others to find their own pathways to liberation. Life as art.
Any activity, when pursued with awareness and intention, can potentially actualize all of these aims simultaneously, such as meditation, psychedelic exploration, travel, sport, data-surfing, art, sex, activism, dance, education, creative play. So naturally we like all those things...
The revolution of everyday life.
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I'd like to meet:
We will not simply sew up the conflicts between faith and skeptism, the stones and the stories, the incandescence of the absolute and the mundane absurdity of an everyday life growing more bizarre and frightful by the minute. Instead, these tensions and conflicts become dynamic and creative forces, calling us to face others with an openness that does not seek to contol or assimilate them to whatever point of view we happen to hold. By replacing the need for a common ground with an acceptance and even celebration of our common groundlessness, the network path might creatively integrate these gaps and lacunae without always trying to fill them in.
-- Erik Davis, TechGnosis
Music:
experimental jazz, electronic, glitch, sound collage, hip-hop, etc such as :: Medeski Martin and Wood (MMW), Soul Coughing, Modest Mouse, Amon Tobin, Black Dice, Raymond Scott, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Solex, Beck, Tortoise, the Doors, Mike and Rich, the Beatles, Grassy Knoll, Beulah, Kid Koala, Latyrx, Blockhead, Aesop Rock, Garage a Trois, Charlie Hunter, Boards of Canada, MF Doom, Saul Williams, Mercury Program, Cinematic Orchestra, Aphex Twin, Freeform, Mouse on Mars, Polmo Polpo, Casino vs Japan, Negativland, Phish, Mr. Bungle, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Four Tet, DJ Spooky, RJD2, Tim Hecker, Bitstream, Coil, Autechre, md, Beastie Boys, Pink Floyd, Avalanches, Dabrye, Yasume, EL-P, Squarepusher..... and the audiomations of way-back jazz genius such as :: Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Coltrane, Bird, Dizzy, Sun Ra, Count Basie, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Lester Young, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck, Fats Waller, Miles Davis..... and the insurrectionary trembling of Godspeed You Black Emperor! ...... and folk, blues, americana and bluegrass such as :: Robert Johnson, The Sidemen, Old Crow Medicine Show, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Johnny Cash, Del McCoury, BB King, Grateful Dead, John Fahey.....
[recently on tap ::]
DJ Phalaris Mixtapology
Decaycast Matmos Interview
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Tomorrow We'll Know Today
Um - Stray Dog
Aesop Rock - Appleseed EP
Casino vs. Japan - Whole Numbers
PHiSH - Loose Jams
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[ fudomouth exclusive ::]
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Movies:
[recently lighting our screens ::]
THE FOUNTAIN
The Holy Mountain
Tsotsi
Water
Awakenings
The HOST
Freedom Fuels
An Inconvenient Truth
The Killing Fields
MirrorMask
The U.S. vs John Lennon
Children of Men
Inside Deep Throat
Riding Giants
The Island
Network (1976)
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Television:
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[ essential documentary ::]
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[ essential vision ::]
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Books:
Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Borges, Italo Calvino, William Gibson, Paul Auster, Umberto Eco, Margaret Atwood, Henry Miller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Danielewski, Hermann Hesse, Anais Nin, DT Suzuki, Kerouac, Burroughs, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Paul Fleischman, Crispian Sartwell, Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, Ken Kesey, Carlos Castaneda, Marilynne Robinson, Gary Synder, Don DeLillo, Octavio Paz, Pierre Reverdy, Tom Wolfe, Joseph Conrad, Melville, Ernst Junger, Philip K Dick, Kafka, Alan Watts, James Joyce.....
[recently absorbed ::]
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Third Policeman - O'Brien
Sometimes a Great Notion - Kesey
Virtual Light - William Gibson
Only Revolutions - Danielewski
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In Memoriam:
KURT VONNEGUT
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