wind witch

According to legends witches were believed to be able to control the wind. One method was with the use of three knots tied into a rope, or sometimes into a handkerchief. When the three knots were tied in the proper magical way, the wind was bound up in them. Witches gave, or sometimes sold, these magic knots to sailors to help them experience safe voyages (see *Ligature). The release of one knot brought a gentle, southwesterly wind; two knots, a strong north wind; and three knots, a tempest. In the folklore of the Shetland Islands and Scandinavia, some fishermen were said to have commanded the wind this way. The belief in controlling the wind by tying it goes back to the legends of ancient Greece; Odysseus received a bag of wind from Aeolus to help him on his journey.

Hajime Kinoko bondage tights

laces

*Ligature is a magical working by tying in a string, thread, or cord one to three knots, usually. Traditionally, for obvious reasons, it is used in binding spells. In ancient Greek times as well as in more recent English times knots were used by sorcerers and sea witches to harness winds and give sailors fair weather for sailing. In many Wiccan traditions knots are tied in the ritual cord belt of the initiation candidate. The number of knots, one, two or three, in the belt signifies the degree of initiation, first, second or third, which the person is receiving. The knots also magically bind the initiate in place and prevent his/her energies from being dispersed

http://ubu.com/film/steyerl_andrea.html

foreign objects

knot comb

総角 agemaki knot

tokyo national museum

odoshi - to frighten

Allegorical Portrait of Sir John Luttrell

apotropaic pattern

The Kolam threshold design

 

Malakulan sand drawing

True Lover's Knot

knots

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131209-knots-unravel-mysteries-of-fluid-flow/

Here we find ourselves in a thought factory, in which, as in the “Weaver’s Masterpiece”:

	“One tread moves thousands of threads,
	The little shuttles fly back and forth,
	The threads flow on unseen,
	One stroke ties thousands of knots.”

khipu / quipu

"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.” (Haraway 2011: 4)

 

http://transkhipu.blogspot.co.uk/

A Martian Factory

To the outsider the threads connecting the delicate brains of the men with the indestructible organs of the machines were subtle and invisible.
Bogdanov/ 65

The earthly envelope of land, air and ocean – the realm of organic life, or biosphere – is doubled by a second skin of electronically mediated thought: the noosphere.
Brian Holmes

Digital Dark Spaces

 

A state apparatus is erected upon the primitive agricultural communities, which already have lineal-territorial codes; but it overcodes them, submitting them to the power of a despotic emperor, the sole and transcendent public-property owner, the master of the surplus or the stock, the organizer of large-scale works (surplus labor), the source of public functions and bureaucracy. This is the paradigm of the bond, the knot. Such is the regime of signs of the State: overcoding, or the Signifier. It is a system of machinic enslavement: the first “megamachine” in the strict sense, to use Mumford’s term.5

points, knots, focuses

The points, knots, or focuses of resistance are spread over time and space at varying densities, at times mobilizing groups or individuals in a definitive way, inflaming certain points of the body, certain moments of life, certain types of behaviour. Are there no great radical ruptures, massive binary divisions, then? Occasionally, yes. But more often one is dealing with mobile and transitory points of resistance, producing cleavages in a society that shift about, fracturing unities and effecting regroupings, furrowing across individuals themselves, cutting them up and remolding them, marking off irreducible regions in them, in their bodies and minds. Just as the network of power relations ends by forming a dense web that passes through apparatuses and institutions, without being exactly localised in them, so too the swarm of points of resistance traverses social stratifications and individual unities. And it is doubtless the strategic codification of these points of resistance that makes a revolution possible.

Michel Foucault / History of Sexuality / Vol 1
Tiqqun/ This is not a Program / Arm the Imaginary Party!

the thing and the shrink

a drive is a boundless loop it closes cyclically on itself it does not enclose anything it does enclose nothing it is a symptom of a hole topology provides obstructions to decay, dissemination and dispersion holes, knots, links, torsions physics provides a bestiary of topological phenomena that prevent decay into the vacuum state Gabriel Catren Dark Materialism Symposium podcast here

acephale

quilting point

As on a pure surface, certain points of one figure in a series refer to the points of another figure, an entire galaxy of problems with their corresponding dice throws, stories and places, a complex place, a convoluted story. Deleuze The Logic of Sense

after sir henry lee

true lover's knot

after sir henry lee

real/ symbolic/ imaginary

Borromean rings

The structure of the knot is such that the cutting of any one ring will liberate all of the others.

true lover's knot

lacan's quilting point Point de capiton

insulating tape, passe partout, copper 2010

The lover's knot is entwined in the iconography of Elizabethan portraiture: an ideological portraiture which invents the subject emblazoned with its patrimony, inlaid with emblematic capital and cryptic over-connections The depicted knot appears as one thread complexly interwoven, but I found by following the drawing on the sleeve of Sir Henry Lee that in fact it can only be made with two threads. Loosely woven they present a geometrical balance, when tightened, they strangle one another.

knupftechnik