Saturday 3 December 2016

echo brackets, henry moore, M16




we are making a new world.. unspeakable, godless, hopeless

[Nash/ Tate Britain]


Hunterian
Kimmeridge "coal money"; oil shale relic from ancient working of oil shale on a lathe. Oil shale is easy to polish and was much valued in antiquity


fracking:  a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock

Thursday 1 December 2016

the metropolitical temple // hierogrammaton

https://www.pzimediadesign.nl/av/FlorianCramer-AltRight-2016_11_28.mp4



ABURY / STUKELEY

44

This spring was much more remarkable than at present, gushing out of the earth, in a continued stream. They say it was spoil’d by digging for a fox who earth’d above, in some cranny thereabouts; this disturb’d the sacred nymphs, in a political way of speaking.

I took notice that apium grows plentifully about the spring-head of the Kennet.

’Tis a large square intrench’d, 110 druid cubits by 130.

defunctorum epulis dictatum apium
dead spots dictated parsley



westray whale



https://soundcloud.com/royalanthropologicalinst/2016-huxley-memorial-lecture-by-margaret-lock




Eileen Agar

stones bones conchology

Monday 28 November 2016

militainment

💀

FIELD WORK IS ESSENTIAL

⛰⛲🏫🚴📷☂☂🌆🌈🌍🌌🌋🌊


Monday 14 November 2016

feminist data visualisation

https://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualizationhttps://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualization

http://www.northeastern.edu/nulab/lauren-klein-feminist-data-visualization/http://www.northeastern.edu/nulab/lauren-klein-feminist-data-visualization/


https://web.archive.org/web/20141019173142/http://www.slideshare.net/laurenfklein/feminist-data-visualization


The eyes have been used to signify a perverse capacity - honed to perfection in the history of science tied to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and male supremacy - to distance the knowing subject from everybody and everything in the interests of unfettered power. The instruments of visualization in multinationalist, postmodernist culture have compounded these meanings of disembodiment.

The visualizing technologies are without apparent limit. The eye of any ordinary primate like us can be endlessly enhanced by sonography systems, magnetic resonance imaging, artificial intelligence-linked graphic manipulation systems, scanning electron microscopes, computed tomography scanners, color-enhancement techniques, satellite surveillance systems, home and office video display terminals, cameras for every purpose from filming the mucous membrane lining the gut cavity of a marine worm living in the vent gases on a fault between continental plates to mapping a planetary hemisphere elsewhere in the solar system.

Vision in this technological feast becomes unregulated gluttony; all seems not just mythically about the god trick of seeing everything from nowhere, but to have put the myth into ordinary practice. And like the god trick, this eye fucks the world to make techno-monsters.

-- Donna Haraway in "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective/Feminist Studies" (1988)

Saturday 12 November 2016

medlar on medlar street


Blet - a state of softness or decay in certain fruits, such as the medlar, brought about by overripening.
Bletting is a process of softening that certain fleshy fruits undergo, beyond ripening. There are some fruits that are either sweeter after some bletting,  or  are eaten raw only after bletting, such as medlars.
Ripe medlars, for example, are taken from the tree and spread on some type of absorptive material (such as straw, sawdust, or bran) somewhere cool, and allowed to ripen for several weeks.

homes not pictures / picture not homes





Sunday 30 October 2016

rti assembly files


 concave japanese lacquer

 plastic googly eye
 glass game dice


 pill packet

 ruby


 lodestone




 pearl