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Thinking about decks of poetry cards again, and card-based text generators. On left, a card from Game Over's I Wish I Wasn’t Royalty,...

Thinking about decks of poetry cards again, and card-based text generators. On left, a card from Game Over's I Wish I Wasn’t Royalty, created by a group of bipolar poets - "an ever-shifting found poem, which echoes the experience of living with extreme mood-states." On right, Caroline Harris's The Tarot as Deer, a major arcana "exploring the interrelationships between two characters, Doe and the Passenger". Reccs welcome. #poetry #cardgame

"In the correct use of the body, which makes possible a correct use of time, nothing must remain idle or useless: everything must be...

"In the correct use of the body, which makes possible a correct use of time, nothing must remain idle or useless: everything must be called upon to form the support of the act required. A well-disciplined body forms the operational context of the slightest gesture. Good handwriting, for example, presupposes a gymnastics - a whole routine whose rigorous code invests the body in its entirety, from the points of the feet to the tip of the index finger."

"Discipline increases the forces of the body (in economic terms of utility) and diminishes these same forces (in political terms of...

"Discipline increases the forces of the body (in economic terms of utility) and diminishes these same forces (in political terms of obedience). In short, it dissociates power from the body; on the one hand, it turns it into an 'aptitude', a 'capacity', which it seeks to increase; on the other hand, it reverses the course of the energy, the power that might result from it, and turns it into a relation of strict subjection."

(reading for a piece on 'monastic spacetime')

https://monoskop.org/File:Foucault_Michel_Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison_1977_1995.pdf

I'm working on a diffracted erasure which explores circularity in poetics and the need of many English lyric poems to go back where they...

I'm working on a diffracted erasure which explores circularity in poetics and the need of many English lyric poems to go back where they came from, resolve their inciting impulse. If you have read/written anything similar I would appreciate hearing about it so I can steal from it. #poetry #criticism

Moderately eerie images from the manufacturing of #NASA and Voyager's Golden Record.

Moderately eerie images from the manufacturing of #NASA and Voyager's Golden Record.

"Will we say that many co-present, fleeting, refugial, but reappearing, glances and glimpses can begin to assemble themselves across...

"Will we say that many co-present, fleeting, refugial, but reappearing, glances and glimpses can begin to assemble themselves across many levels of reference and embeddedness, across many types of text, and will this act of recombination or reconfiguration have a shared public structure, the structure of a quest? A quest, we must ask, of whose unconscious." https://www.stephaniestrickland.com/assets/QuantumPoetics_Kac.pdf #poetry #poetics

"The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion" - Brian Swimme"I’d say by now he must be confused As to which...

"The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion"

- Brian Swimme

"I’d say by now he must be confused
As to which side is which

I’d say it doesn’t matter
No one complains he’s got
Their pockets to go through
In one a crust of bread in another a sausage

Once in a long while a mirror"

- Charles Simic, Charon's Cosmology

“Why did you cover yourself like this, like an object at the morgue? What were you thinking?”

I said, “I thought what I had covered was the world.”

- Ken Chen

"This is the work of the literary humanities as they meet up with the intrusive unintelligibilities of breaking experience. The source...

"This is the work of the literary humanities as they meet up with the intrusive unintelligibilities of breaking experience. The source of vitality for the essay is its engagement in conversational invention rather than ordinal accounts of things (including thoughts) that have already taken place." 2/2 The Poethical Wager, Joan Retallack

"The essay, with its capacity to accommodate interruptions and digressions, may be the chief prose-based experimental instrument of...

"The essay, with its capacity to accommodate interruptions and digressions, may be the chief prose-based experimental instrument of humanistic thought. At its best it detaches itself from the epistemology implied by narrative grammars, a tone of certainty that pervades even the most provisional material. (It may be happening right here.) By contrast the distractible logics of the essay are, or should be, attempts at nothing other than productive conjecture..." 1/2

"When it is finished, the book will be a poem that traces how I came to be white. I hope and trust it will be part of our expanding...

"When it is finished, the book will be a poem that traces how I came to be white. I hope and trust it will be part of our expanding effort as poets to perceive how whiteness happens so that we can, as much as possible, make it un-happen." https://www.aprweb.org/poems/awake-in-the-scratchy-dark-on-writing-whiteness

I'm thinking about the question of "decolonising" poetic form as a white European writer, and especially with regard to...

I'm thinking about the question of "decolonising" poetic form as a white European writer, and especially with regard to language barriers and translation (one reference is M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!) - if anybody here has written/read anything useful it'd be good to know about it. #criticism #poetry #poetics #colonialism #decolonialism

I blogged a bit about how the Pokemon/Palworld copyright debate mirrors attempts to patent animal species or "breed copyright...

I blogged a bit about how the Pokemon/Palworld copyright debate mirrors attempts to patent animal species or "breed copyright into" them, with some closing commentary on Palworld's own breeding endgame https://https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/palworlds-skin-deep-pokemon-parody-is-part-of-a-bigger-horror-story

"The relationship between the local, the regional, the national, and the global is not a geometrical nesting [...] The space of...

"The relationship between the local, the regional, the national, and the global is not a geometrical nesting [...] The space of possibilities does not represent a fixed event horizon within which the social location of knowers can be mapped, nor does it represent a homogeneous, fixed, uniform container of choices [...] The politics of identity and the politics of location, however useful, have been circumscribed by a geometrical conception of power that arrests and flattens..." Barad, MTUH

"Movements, speed and slowness, are sometimes enough to reconstruct a smooth space. Of course, smooth spaces are not in themselves...

"Movements, speed and slowness, are sometimes enough to reconstruct a smooth space. Of course, smooth spaces are not in themselves liberatory. But the struggle is changed or displaced in them, and life reconstitutes its stakes..." D&G, A Thousand Plateaus, tr. Massumi (1987)

A little chat with the creator of Roadwarden about the value of money, and magic....

A little chat with the creator of Roadwarden about the value of money, and magic. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-one-of-the-finest-rpgs-ever-made-thinks-about-money-and-magic

Some "early recipe" cards. #erasure #poetry

Some "early recipe" cards. #erasure #poetry

Somebody please come up with some rules for the Symbol Game....

Somebody please come up with some rules for the Symbol Game. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/starfields-greatest-mystery-is-a-boardgame-nobody-knows-how-to-play #boardgames

Wrote about the dubious alchemy and magic of Metacriticism and review scores aggregation at large, drawing a few parallels with the realm of...

Wrote about the dubious alchemy and magic of Metacriticism and review scores aggregation at large, drawing a few parallels with the realm of law and finance. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/unravelling-the-magic-and-alchemy-of-metacritic

A couple of accidentally paired short takes from the past couple of months: 1) why FF16's lack of a minigame makes its vast, handsome...

A couple of accidentally paired short takes from the past couple of months: 1) why FF16's lack of a minigame makes its vast, handsome world feel lifeless 2) how Saltsea Chronicles' Spoils cardgame "binds the micro and macro" of its universe together.

https://www.eurogamer.net/dear-square-enix-please-bring-back-final-fantasys-minigames

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-a-well-crafted-minigame-can-bring-a-whole-fantasy-world-together