Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated. We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are of the world. We are part of the world in its differential becoming.
-Karen Barad
Meeting the Universe Halfway
tributaries
Imagine letting a goldfish swim across
the sky.
Let it swim from the West to the East.
Drink a litre of water.
Imagine letting a goldfish swim across
the sky.
Let it swim from the East to the West.
1963 spring
-Yoko Ono
grapefruit
mnemonic fish
“[W]hat strange chaos is this wide atmosphere we breathe! Every atom, impressed with good and ill, retains the motions which philosophers and sages have imparted to it, mixed and combined in ten thousand ways with all that is worthless and base. The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are forever written all that men and women has ever whispered.“
- Charles Babbage
The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
valence
“But when we sit together, close,[…]we melt into each other’s phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
-Virginia Woolf
The Waves