June 2010
11 posts
“When I think of Jean-Francois Lyotard what first comes to mind is Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan…This is only to say that beyond his brilliant writings on phenomenology and Marxism, beyond his retheorization of aesthetic theory, and even beyond the pragmatic ethics of all his “language games,” Lyotard is, in the end, the author of a philosophical Moose law, and the best of all...
Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter by using radiation pressure from intense sound waves - ex. an ultrasound emitter and reflector generate a sound pressure field. Some methods can levitate objects without creating sound heard by the human ear, others produce some audible sound. Apparently ants, spiders and ladybugs have endured this trick.
I snub your dodecahedron.
do do do do da da da.
God particle signal...
The long string instrument, invented by the...
From a friend.
Aurora-like Birkeland currents created by scientist Kristian Birkeland in his terrella, featuring a magnetised anode globe in an evacuated chamber. From the book The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903, Volume 1: On the Cause of Magnetic Storms and The Origin of Terrestrial Magnetism.
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manila folders and mucilage, Desolation in immaculate public places, Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard, The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher, Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma, Endless duplication of lives and objects. And I have seen dust from the walls...
