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Posted November 13, 2020

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BRAHMA – first quarter of the tenth century, Cambodia. Sandstone. H. 47 ½ in. (120.7 cm); W. 21 in. (53.3 cm); D. 9 in. (22.9 cm).
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This representation of Brahma [Hindu tradition god of creation] is understood to be omnipresent.  Hence he is depicted with four faces and four arms, evoking his universality. 
This sculpture would have occupied a subsidiary shrine at a temple complex dedicated in all likelihood to Shiva [the master of both poison and medicine].
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DADA MEANS NOTHING


— Tristan Tzara (Dada Manifesto, 1918)

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” … ‘Fetters’ …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)
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Problem of style? Get the meaning across and then STOP.
— Confucius (d. 497 BCE) … translated by Ezra Pound (1950)
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Mokurai 
 
06.11.20.
 
 
     Life has nothing to do with what 
     the grammarians call Beauty.
 
     — Francis Picabia (1920)
 
 
a thought/a thinking:
see if more than more than ‘not’ 
has become ‘entire’ 
 
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when strange the semblance 
of finding ‘loss’ … in the eye(s)
of the ‘readyfound’
 
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The Supreme Emptiness of necessity consists of vital energy. Vital energy of necessity integrates to become the myriad things. Things of necessity disintegrate and return to the Supreme Emptiness. Appearance and disappearance following this cycle are a matter of necessity.
 
— Zhang Zai (1020-1077)
 
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word resplaying turning reeching was it in2 th dsapeering air yu sighd
how 2 get kleer  word 
 
bill bissett
 
was it th mustash uv th tangiers engineer at th bordr uv vodka street n
voodoo avenue or nothing uv thees thn not at all  it was th suddn turquoise
platform  n deepning n red a kind uv crimson fr sure n waves n streemrs n yello
that sew alertid us 2 a raptyur thred that cud th parlant uv suddn large noises
amid th violet velvet nite that sew shook us sent us almost reeling  or th soup
being at last redee  we cud make a run 4 it  textyur textyur he whisperd textyur
i  i  ium sew sick uv th word i  ium dun with it  th word  i  reminding n not minding
tho minding fullee th shop uv wild sendayshums n genius room apalayshuns tan
th surrendr gsbrafrn gabrdeen genuflex or wundrments n mildr n windr  was it
sew surreptishus that we cudint feed on th nite air  n word yu askd textyur word
wrappd in bart lett  peers  thru th  omigowds n erthr n wer thos simple times reelee
long omg ong ommm f onay  th wiring  wireless  o inteld  sankimoneez what wud
yu care 4 ther th fish monger was sew hot fingrs west turnkey blistrs 4 dot dot
did rid rood ot od o w owe  wr wd w w quid isthmus sink tallow did he know did she
generalee th whiff th strange seed tree thank yu 4 cumming n yu in sew much pain
n th rathr th wer pr f th weepr n th moonbeem marraudr n th farm tickler evolving
teknolojee is relentless  th robotik revolushyun is well undr way  wher ar th jobs gone
word  L  eagminth rey d  genius slid all ovr him  languorous n nite fed n what abt th
profiktivitee  th produksyun th digestyun sew unallayd n unallignd ther alloys  2morro
hardier a signature n th propaganda uv th tilts rulrs trubuling n punishing
sew okay now without wishing 4 evreethings evreethings alredee xcelent  if its not heer
can it b on its way  or alredee is  genius 2 xklaim th restless prson audiens uv ths latest
smoothing  yes th fethrs uv dreems  n th fires in our eyes in th waking uv evree erlee
morning miming  at last th diktator is gone  can we breeth yet

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bill bissett
“th rivr uv yr dreems”
acrylik on canvas
2020 
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Posted November 6, 2020

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Current Tendency 

Mokurai

05.08.20
 
     To assume that all living beings 
     die is a narrow view. To assume
     that the dead not perceive is a 
     limited idea.
 
     — Dogen Zenji
 
find found and (then/thus) 
do not turn back to where/when 
 
… for now here/there has 
come to completion (as such)
 
… and recollection … 
so far from gone … is go(ing) 
 
further on … beyond … 
In a length of (un)known reach 
 
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Memo to CAUSA – from Ryo Sugiyama, Curator, Nitobe Memorial Garden, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) … 
 
Nitobe Update, November 4, 2020: 
 
There are only a few leaves on Mt. Fuji Cherry. 
 
[  Note: The ‘Mt. Fuji’ Cherry Tree was planted by Ryo Sugiyama on 16 March 2020 — In association with CAUSA/Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts. The tree was selected to mark mark the 60th anniversary of the Nitobe Memorial Garden. 
 
— CAUSA Research Curators ]
 
 
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” … ‘Public Situation’…”.  (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)
 
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The main aspect of our simultaneous-instantaneous time is essentially acoustic, not visual, since no point-of-view is possible to the ear.
 
— Marshall McLuhan (1979)
 
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Uncertain Extent
 
Mokurai 
 
04.10.20
 
     Simultaneously or alternately,
     we inhabit many different and
     even incommensurable universes.
 
     — Aldous Huxley
 
imagine this (there … then): a 
‘became’ become known (for now) 
‘in between’ and furthermore 
neither ‘otherwise’ or not … 
 
recall … (before and after)
a semblance of being seen 
within and (for now) outside
of when ‘when’ turned … (on again)
 
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In our time we are re-living at high speed the whole of the human past. As in a speeded-up film we are traversing all ages and all experiences of pre-historic men. Our experience is not exclusive of other peoples’ experience but inclusive.
 
— Marshall McLuhan (1956)
 
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Posted October 30, 2020

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General view of the city of Hiroshima. (Photographic record from March 1946 – six months after the US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb … on 6 August 1945.)

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JAPAN TODAY, New York/Tokyo, 26 October, 2020:
 
The United Nations said Saturday [October 25] that 50 countries have ratified a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, paving the way for its entry into force on Jan 22, a move praised by anti-nuclear activists but opposed by the United States and other nuclear powers.
 
Japan decided not to sign the treaty in consideration of its security ties with the United States.
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Recitation
 
Mokurai
 
13.09.20
 
weigh the words that now portend 
to propose themselves as if 
complete enough for being
at once an apparently 
purposed though less than composed 
return .. on … on … on … to where …
beyond mere marking of space 
passing into past without 
placing you … there … a mere back
and front come again forward 
… from motionless reversal 
 
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Chinmoku [Silence] … Nitobe Memorial Garden. [Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.]

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Experience is determined only by experience. … Buddhism is the unteachable, immediate experience of Suchness [Thusness].
 
— Aldous Huxley (1945)
 
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True philosophy consists of relearning to look at the world.
 
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945)
 
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Prior to an event to mark the 70th anniversary of China entering the Korean War, soldiers stand in formation in front of the Great Hall of the People, Beijing. (23 October 2020.)
 
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AL JAZEERA, 23 October 2020:
 
In a muscular speech to mark 70 years since Chinese troops entered the Korean War; President Xi Jinping warned that China was not afraid of war and would never allow his sovereign security and development interests to be undermined.
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“Let the world know that ‘the people of China are now organised and are not to be trifled with’,” Xi said, quoting Mao, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China.
 
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Posted October 22, 2020

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Talking on the moon … Agence France-Press, 20 October 2020:
 
With competition among Earth’s telecoms providers as fierce as ever, equipment maker Nokia has announced its expansion into a new market, winning  a deal to install the first cellular network on the moon.
 
The Finnish equipment manufacturer said it was selected by NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] to deploy an “ultra-compact” wireless 4G network on the lunar surface, as part of the US space agency’s plan to establish a long-term human presence on the moon by 2030.
 
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Michael Snow, Authorization, 1969. Photograph – instant silver prints (Polaroid 47) and adhesive tape on mirror (in metal frame). 56.6 x 44.4 x 1.4 cm. National Gallery of Canada.
 
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Marshall McLuhan (1960):
 
Media are the parameters of all enterprises, whether private or collective. They impose, they are the assumptions. Mostly, therefore, they are subliminal just because they are constitutive and pervasive. But to a number-sodden age, it may be more effective to say “Media are the parameters” rather than that “the medium is the message.”
 
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” … ‘Without Blur’ …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans).
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Can your mind penetrate every corner of the land, but you yourself never interfere?
                                             — Lao Tzu (sixth century BCE)
 
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Effect and Cause 
 
Mokurai 
 
19.10.20
 
       Things will be better. When? 
       When the dogs rule?
                              — Elias Canetti 
 
included by being somehow somewhere 
(in some sense provided now/and always) 
…
one reclusive factor remains (hidden):
that once become we stay (still) forever 
 
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English Bay, Vancouver (Remembering Wells Coates). Photo: M. Cynog Evans.

[ Note:

Working in England, architect and designer Wells Coates (b.1895, Tokyo – d. 1958, Vancouver) was a pioneering Modern Movement architect and designer. During the last year of his life, Coates (now a world-renowned figure) launched Arthur Erikson’s career by engaging the novice architect as an assistant within a small, but socially committed/forward-looking practice.

Coates’ Vancouver office was located immediately adjacent to Stanley Park – close to English Bay, where he would intermittently view visiting Japanese ships at anchor.

— CAUSA Research Curators ]

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Detail. Moon over Musashi Plain.  Unknown artist, 17th century. Two-panel Japanese folding screen – mineral pigment and gold foil on paper. Portland Art Museum.
 
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Posted October 16, 2020

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Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcedent Wisdom – China, 17th – 18th century. Applique of various Chinese silks, silvered and gilded leather shapes on silk satin ground with couched silk cord and embroidery. The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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An Autumn 
(Not Virtual) 
Acknowledged 
 
Mokurai 
 
October 2020 
 
towards an end of circle 
setting something can become 
clear (or not) … but not ever 
again wide (just wide enough) 
to be less than completed
… in its own premonition
 
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” … ‘Point’ …”.  (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans).
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Metamorphoses make use of what already exists; nothing is really changed back. The ability to recognize the stations at which only looking back and expressing are allowed may be considered the acme of the poetic art of life.
— Elias Canetti (1947)
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Staff • The Canadian Press (16 October 2020)  

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said his government will not stop standing up for human rights in China –or calling-out Beijing for its coercive approach to diplomacy.
Trudeau says that includes the situation in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy activists have been protesting a widely criticized national security law imposed on the territory by Beijing. 
On Thursday [15 October], the Chinese ambassador to Canada warned Ottawa against granting asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing the situation, saying it amounts to interfering in its internal affairs.
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Trudeau has said that China is engaging in coercive diplomacy by imprisoning two Canadian men in retaliation for the arrest of a Chinese high-tech executive on an American extradition warrant.

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Posted October 10, 2020

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” … ‘Certainty’ …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

 
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How prudent Buddha’s father was! And how humiliating the legend of Buddha’s first meeting with age, disease, and death!
   Would everything have been otherwise if, from Buddha’s earliest childhood, his father had kept an old man, a sick man,  and a dying man for him, like playmates and pet animals…?
 
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bill bissett, moon ovr mattawa 4, 2020.Acrylic on canvas.

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Posted October 3, 2020

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Li Shan, Ink Bamboo, 1749. Hanging scroll – ink on paper. 52 x 29 ⅛ in. (132.1 x 74 cm).
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” … ‘Widest Width’ …”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)
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Peace is self-control at its widest — at the width where the ‘self’ has been lost, and the interest has been transferred to conditions wider than personality.
— Alfred North Whitehead (1933)
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(A) Wakefulness 
 
 
Mokurai
 
27.09 20
 
 
     The soul of so many flowers is 
     no longer blooming. … Every star 
     is dying.
 
     — Agrippa D’Aubigné 
 
astronomy and anything else 
connected to the universal 
sense of what we are now becoming 
should not predispose autumnal sense 
of some one thing … whether here and there
or even between that is/is not …
just there … at the source of no return 
 
 
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Posted September 26, 2020

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China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds 
 
Emma Graham, The Guardian, 24 September 2020
 
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China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years even as Chinese authorities said their “re-education” system was winding down, an Australian thinktank has found.
 
The network of camps in China’s far west, used to detain Ughurs and people from other Muslim minorities, include 14 that are still under construction, according to the latest satellite imaging obtained by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
 
 
 
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Aizen Myo-o, Japan, 14th century. Hanging scroll – ink, colour, gold, and cut gold leaf on silk. 135.4 x 82.4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
 
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The blood-red body and flaming halo of Aizen Myo-o, the Wisdom King of Passion, symbolizes how, in Buddhist practice, the violent energies of carnality and desire can be converted in the pursuit of enlightenment. Aizen Myo-o is the embodiment of rage: his hair stands on end, a snarling lion rises from his head, and his six arms brandish Esoteric weapons and other emblems of power. The bow and arrow on the middle hands are attributes appropriated from Kama, the Hindu god of love.
 
 
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A nuclear arms race in space? 
It seems we’ve learned nothing from Hiroshima.
 
Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, 2 August 2020 
 
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Russia’s apparent test-firing of an anti-satellite weapon in outer space on July 15 [2020], as alleged by the US and Britain, could be dismissed as another of Vladimir Putin’s annoying provocations. That would be a mistake. The alleged new space weapon should be seen in the broader context of a rapidly evolving, hi-tech, high-risk international arms race involving all the major nuclear powers that, largely undiscussed, is spinning out of control. 
 
 
 
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Hell Courtesan (Jigoku-dayu), by Kawanabe Kyosai (d. 1889). Hanging scroll – ink, metallic pigments, and colour on silk. Art Gallery of New South Wales.

 
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The Hell Courtesan derives from legends of a 15th century woman who dressed in robes decorated with images of the Buddhist hells. One of the most recognizable figures of supernatural Japan, she was a devout Buddhist whose faith was inspired by the Zen monk Ikkyū. In this painting Ikkyū is seen dancing on a skull. 
 
 
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Zen master Ikkyū 
(d. 1481) 
 
Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning – already gone – 
thus should one regard one’s self 
 
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Posted September 19, 2020

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Yamantaka, Destroyer of Death — Tibet, early 18th century. Distemper on cloth. Image: 72¹½ x 46⅝ in. (184.2 x 118.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
 
Curatorial Record:
 
This image of a wrathful protector of Buddhism would have been an awesome presence in the dimly lit interior of a Tibetan monastery. Yamantaka is a violent aspect of the Bodhisattva Manjushri; who assumes the form to vanquish Yama, the god of death. By defeating Yama, the cycle of rebirths (samsara) that prevents enlightenment is broken. 
 
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Due to his involvement in public protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s  police state presence in his native Tibet, the poet Theurang was arrested in 2010 and sentenced to a four-year prison term. Prior to being incarcerated, his critical attacks on the CCP included publications of his poetry in the now-banned literary journal ‘Eastern Conch Moutain’. 
 
His prison sentence violated article 19 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which calls for the protection of freedom of expression. China signed the ICCPR in 1998.
 
The poem presented below was written during the poet’s period of incarceration (2010-2014).
 
 
 
THOSE PEOPLE  
 
Theurang [Tashi Rabten] 
 
 
Mountains hollowed out, rivers befouled And wildlife wiped out.
Those people burrow our land 
With their fangs and claws.
 
Pastures denuded, forests demolished.
Boundaries of fields and pens dissolved, 
Converted into extensive spaces of foreign, unhealthy trees.
Those “guests” have now settled, unapologetically.
 
Rangelands divided, fenced with iron enclosures.
Livestock disturbed, and its population dwindling.
With fierce expressions, they snatch away slabs of our gold ores
And with unblushing smiles, they reward us with a few sacks of flour.
Those people really know how to ingratiate themselves.
 
Law. Policy. Harmony.
 
Those people have chains, locks
And awfully tight snares.
 
 
 
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”  ‘Gestalt’ … Confucius Café (Continuation)…”.  Photo: M. Cynog Evans. 
 
 
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DISTANT AND DIFFICULT 
 
Mokurai
 
(2019)
 
 
    
    By nature men are alike.
    Through practice they have
    become far apart.
 
    — Confucius 
 
 
 
With suspension points in place 
to protect the tone (as such) of a 
conversation that comes to be more 
than (merely) a ‘going’ gone ‘forgone’ 
 
… 
 
before being (further) brought into 
stillness … in ‘unforeseen’ or ‘not
noticed’ response to the ‘worthiness’ 
never worthy of any mere ‘avoidance’ 
 
…
 
a width not ‘wide’ in length but long 
remaining ‘far’ (far) ‘off’ can always
make going/going/gone ‘go’ (on and 
on) before appearing to be ‘just’ gone 
 
 
 
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A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet flying next to a Chinese H-6 bomber (top) in Taiwan’s airspace in February (2020). China has stepped up military activities around the democratically-run island that it claims as it’s own.
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“The most arrogant country can easily provoke war, and the most ignorant government can be caught in the flames of war.”
— Ministry of National Defence, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you. China’s future belongs to you.

— Mao Zedong (talk at a meeting with Chinese students and trainees in Moscow … 17 November 1957).
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Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt (1972):
Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope, or size.

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    Posted September 11, 2020

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    The conception of ‘artistic work’ presupposes a distinction between useful and useless work. … The artist’s work lies beyond the boundaries of the useful and the useless.

    — El Lissitzky (1920)

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    A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached.

    — Joseph Beuys (1972)

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    As soon as there is consciousness there is nature.

    — Ch’eng I (d. 1107 CE)

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    remembring 2morro 2day
     
    peeses uv dialog  oftn  film noir  float thru
    th air  filld  ovrflowing  with all th contradiksyuns 
    paradoches  fragments  uv rememberd  ikonik  n ironik 
    moments  milliseconds  uv  breething th organs tissu
    th jesturd agilitee  benefit from  dont let all that 
    revers confetti get yu down  th broken promises 
    even yr own  hard sumtimes 2 keep  wher yu will b
    is not a biographikul  moovee  is not sum wun elsus 
    dreem  wait is ths my own dreem  n nowun elsus 
    whos is it  strengthn th material th neuro elastisitee 
    thos wundrful akrobatik moments  wher yu satisfy 
    evreething  th long drawn out sonnet soliloquay 
    rekovring from a 2 lengthen stint or stent in th abyss 
    its allure like quicksand  gotcha ther th neighbour sd 
    its a ba releef  or is it  th pandemik pikkadillos  th peopul 
    who wer alredee isolatid n cant take ths stretch anee
    mor  th blame game spiraling out no conklewsyun 4 th 
    medium dstansing sorrento caliber oh lookin th no hands n 
    fall in2 a suddn network uv ar s providid by who  nowun knows 
    she sighd playing in2 th hammock sultree castings dusint sartres 
    credo xistens is prior 2 essens  alredee take care uv th problem 
    uv genetic inheritans  dont let anee uv it get yu down  dscuss  its 
    alredee massaging yr frontal lobe  listn he sd iul get sallee in on ths
    sheul love how th song n danish pastreez go as longs she dusint go 
    on abt dieting th timbre in th hosing ritual went in well in2 th nite n 
    we cud complain uv nevr getting ted n sallee is evn gloria back b4 dawn 
    i thought if rods recipe works weul have a lot uv th ingredients 4 a bite by 
    th fire n th rivr  such as why dew our brains sumtimes defeet us 
    n dont we dew may way mor 2 create ourselvs thn we give ourselvs credit 4
    n keep an eye on that wind n draws yu 2 bed  b4 yu want 2 n accepting th 
    summaree aneeway in th palm n th leevs yr life may seem a mess but its kleer 
    2yu n yu dew have an unusual relaysyunship with empteeness n its resultant
    acceptances  its sew lovlee 2 sleep evn a coupul hrs at a time th qwestyuns 
    endlesslee remonstrate th galaktik fervour anothr nu group th subtlety uv th 
    drumming inside th drumming oh th sound uv us all by th fir sleep thru yu 
    slerping th ardour laying it down anothr wishing dr eem touches yu seem
    will we remember 2nite th ingredients uv th recipe we konkoktid 4
    curing obsessyun n we saw it sew kleerlee thats how it goez goes 
    going soon n th midnite watchr sauntering in2 th far flung cavern uv theyr dreems 
     
     
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    bill bissett, ambrflite (acrylik on canvas), 2020. (16″ x 20″.)
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    ” … ‘Gestalt’ … Confucius Café…”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.) 
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    Don’t go in and hide; don’t come out and shine; stand stock still in the middle.
    — Confucius (d. 479 BCE)
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    ” … ‘Non-Fiction’…”. DigitalOriginal. (Image: M. Cynog Evans.) 

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    — Marahall McLuhan (1967)
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    Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is compounded of the same particles 
     
    — John Tyndall (1879)
     
     

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    Somehow and Somewhere 
     
    Mokurai 
     
    March 2020
     
     
    When somehow and somewhere 
    became (once and again) any one
    thing … were you near … or even 
    within reach (then) of a not there?
     
    Does the back of beyond belong 
    to someone … or (just) not yet now? 
    And if (suddenly) a complete portion 
    of there is now here: what (of a) next?
     
     

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    Technological questions are child’s play. It is only life which is unclear. That is why it is life which requires art.
     
    — Alfred Caldwell (1976)
     
     
     
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    The consciousness is merely like a mirror in which what seems to be an external sphere appears.
    — Hsüan-tsang (d. 664 CE) 

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