This is beautiful and I think we need more posts like this. I haven't heard Susskind's name mentioned in a long time. I'm sitting here watching the violence Trump and company, as bad as Hitler as far as I'm concerned, the violence this horror is doing to America, turning it into what we called at one point Amerikkka. For once I try to stay away from the news as much as possible, but of course it's not possible... Thanks, Alan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM Anthony Stephenson via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Triops > (2024) graphite, string, acrylic on canvas > By Anthony Stephenson > A black hole is the beginning. It starts here. It is such that beyond > the surface of engagement, there is no turning back. A spotting has > occurred. From the cyclops of the third eye, our two eyes meet and > look for a depth. The point being that, on the surface we might go no > further than simple categorical objectification. But when go further, > we get into a tug o’ war with what seems to be a struggle with three > areas: First, we handle how things flow through ourselves – a thread > that we might think of as wrestling with ourselves; Second, we often > must negotiate our relationship to a specific Other – person, place, > or thing; And third, our maneuvering among many other factors. In the > “Triops” triptych, “Cel” is alone with the pure struggle of oneself in > the milieu of signs, symbols and attempts at certitude and presence. > Where with “Coup” there might be an actual negotiation for > verifiability or clarity. And then the demands of the world must be > met for “Plex” in which these previous struggles are dealt with on a > larger scale. And perhaps, as was pointed out when they spoke of > Faciality in “A Thousand Plateaus”, the proliferation of these > black-hole eyes have a “bordering effect [that] acts to increase the > surface over which the hole slides …” Or as Leonard Susskind says in > “The Cosmic Landscape”: “ The universe “rolls” around on the Landscape > and eventually comes to rest in a valley representing the usual > vacuum.” > > http://bit.ly/4kH5tt5 > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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