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someone mentioned the enucleated eye in Bataille (Story of the Eye) - I'm writing an essay for a friend's art exhibition that starts with an analysis of that scene. The exhibition is all life-size/hi-definition photographs of the female genatalia (NSFW): http://www.chinchinwu.net/?page_id=98 i...

not sure if this is correct but i think the limbic system responds to fuzzy data, or large perceptual structures (gestalts), and the neo-cortex is digital, syntactical, combinatory, etc. So it would interpret video signals as a real stimulus in the environment (a dead body, sex, violence...

I've been meaning to check out McKenzie Wark's new book "50 Years of Recuperation of the SI". Has anyone read this? It came out this year. Wark is one of my favorites I was introduced to SI via a biography published by Feral House. Can't remember the author but i think the title is "Guy Debord...

like i said that article was written when i was 19 and i don't remember writing any of it. the effects are the same regardless of content because the effects come from the medium, not what's in the medium.

heh i hope this is true. that is exactly what i'm going for. i also practice thelemic/sigil magick whilst tripping/stoned :D

a thesis on radical modernism

that was one question people always asked me, and i never had a solid answer: are the same effects produced by a liquid crystal screen that you see in a cathode ray tube, or a plasma screen for that matter? the effects are different i think. mcluhan said television was a cool (ie incomplete...

stoned in bed, at really high volume on my headphones. I should be deaf within a decade or so. also: i have the Wire song "Practice Makes Perfect" (from Chairs Missing) on permanent repeat.

Merzbow and Masonna - Flying Testicle

I've been into them for a few years. They have a massive discography, it's definitely worth digging into. It can be kind of hit or miss, admittedly. "Mantra of Love" was the first album i really got into.

agree with this absolutely. i had to be institutionalized earlier this year after a botched suicide attempt. i'd been manic-depressive for almost ten years but i never took my medication, and no one really insisted on it. re: the Modernist auteur- this is definitely a myth. It seems to rely on...

or Decatur, GA. Every time i go to a gas station in Decatur at 3-4 AM, i have been offered cocaine. One time a guy flagged me over to his car and asked if i wanted a "white girl". I thought he meant a prostitute. I decline and he reaches in the backseat and says "You sure you don't want this...

Goblin and Acid Mothers Temple

which part of the brain is responsible for representing space? i ran into a theory earlier this year called Tensor-Network theory which says that the senses map space with a matrix, or metric space, but the proprioceptive sense (or kinesthesia) is mapped onto a topology. I have some fundamental...

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/5jcl/5JCL59.htm i'm not sure if all these claims are totally accurate, esp vis-a-vis television's narcotic/addictive properties. I was reading Understanding Media at the time. McLuhan is still my favorite writer. There's an article about this article on PBS.org...

if true that is such a sadness. i just started getting into worn copy and house arrest

i have a bootleg translation of Seminar 23 if you are interested. It has never been translated into English b/c of a copywright dispute with Lacan's family/executors. Lots of excellent topological diagrams :) I love Lacan's use of formulas, algorithms, visuals, etc.

Zizek talks about the connection between consumerism and the regulation of jouissance in a lot of depth in Looking Awry and elsewhere. This probably deserves its own thread. Basically consumer culture becomes the subject's "sinthome" or constitutive symptom (it would take ages to explain Lacan's...

As far as psychedelics in South America, I think it starts with Chavin (approx. 1000 BCE) in Peru. They used psychedelics in religious ceremonies - DMT in the form of yopo, and the San Pedro cactus, which contains mescaline - not as strong as peyote but still potent. When they moved into the...