BAUDRILLARD, I CHOOSE YOU!
“The only objective illusion is a physical truth: no object in this universe co-exists in real time with other objects. There is no correspondence between the sexes, between the stars, nor this glass and the table onto which it sits. Because light travels in space, when we look at an object, we look at it with a certain delay. This is the intrinsic disorder of creation. The absence of things to themselves, the fact that they don’t take place while seeming to, the fact that everything withdraws behind its own appearance and can therefore never be identical to itself, all this is the material illusion of the world. Real time does not exist as one cannot be completely in the present moment, hence the reality of human beings is always virtual. On the other hand, if we say that in any given moment in time you are in a specific temporal place, you will never be in a moment in time which contains your entire experiences. And this remains at bottom the great enigma, which plunges us into terror, and from which we protect ourselves with the formal illusion of truth.”
“In 1948, Cage joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, where he regularly worked on collaborations with Merce Cunningham. Around this time, he visited the anechoic chamber atHarvard University. (An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor will absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than bouncing them back as echoes. They are also generally soundproofed.) Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but as he wrote later, he “heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation.” Cage had gone to a place where he expected there to be no sound, yet sound was nevertheless discernible. He stated “until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.” The realization as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the “composition” of his most notorious piece, 4′33’”*
becuz u knew they’d come out hustlin just like u
submitted by HP, DL, and KT
i’m gonna go shoot my face off because i am not this person ok thnx
Personally, I prefer 6. 4 is throw up status.
Catenary dance! By yours, truly.
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Went to Berkeley yesterday and got this gray gem from diggeh-Dan. Most beautiful color there is! Exposing the literal qualities of the universe n’ shiz.
IN ADDITION.
Chelsea and Jasper got a new pup. SHE IS THE MOST UNCUTE THING I’VE EVER SEEN. BARF.
