https://affections.cargo.site Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:12 +0000 https://affections.cargo.site en https://affections.cargo.site/Parallel-Encyclopedias Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:12 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Parallel-Encyclopedias Parallel EncyclopediasAs they say things must separate in order to appear, but what it is that separates isn’t very clear. In her Parallel Encyclopedias, Batia Suter centralizes this classification bias through contamination — an induced cultural Alzheimers — resulting in something like an un-Enlightenment. Batia Suter — Parallel Encyclopedias https://affections.cargo.site/The-Winds-Blowing-on-Callisto Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:43:08 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/The-Winds-Blowing-on-Callisto The Winds Blowing on CallistoEverything is natural, nothing is unnatural — whether it’s the winds blowing on Callisto, the melted portion of a Slurpee, thoughts in a head, a tract house, a snail shell, cancer cells, anything really, it’s all natural. However some things are beneficial and some things are harmful — most things are beneficial to some things whilst being harmful to others.P.S. By extension there’s no such thing as the supernatural; if you happen to see a ghost or whatever, rest assured you’re definitely seeing something… Images: Susumu Mukai https://affections.cargo.site/Something-Like-Eternity Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:49:44 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Something-Like-Eternity Something Like EternityWe’ve spent much time in the peopleless places — willfully losing our bearings and giving our organizational tropes a rest. After returning it is hard not to see the grand economy and interdependence of it all — causality and effect having become some sort of multidimensional, omnidirectional sheet with few, if any, real separations… Even the most prosaic “How do you do?” is instantly revealed as the farthest reach of the most ancient of utterings, whittled beyond conception from something like eternity. Image: Walter de Maria https://affections.cargo.site/Subtext-of-its-Object Mon, 20 May 2019 23:43:18 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Subtext-of-its-Object Subtext of its ObjectRelax. All’s fine — just a subject relinquishing itself to the sensuous subtext of its object. 🤔 Paintings: Tiger Tateishi https://affections.cargo.site/A-word-or-a-Sound Mon, 20 May 2019 23:45:41 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/A-word-or-a-Sound A word or a SoundSound a word or a sound. Listen — surprise. Sound a word as a sound. Sound a sound as a word. Sound a sound until it is a word. Sound a word until it is a sound. Sound a sentence of sounds. Sound a phrase of sounds Text: Pauline Oliveros, 1996 Sculpture: Mimmo Paladino https://affections.cargo.site/Maiden-Voyage Mon, 20 May 2019 23:47:56 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Maiden-Voyage Maiden VoyageMost writing rests on the ability to balance some sort of philosophical outlook with the talent to convey it compellingly. Rare is the writer who can carry a text with description alone. Denton Welch was the latter to the nth degree. His book Maiden Voyage through the use of a purely observational narration, reminds one of the simple act we are all constantly performing — looking at the world and processing it in the privacy of our own heads. His accounts are sometimes venomous but always gorgeous in their candid precision. Denton Welch, Maiden Voyage, 1943 https://affections.cargo.site/Sadness-Beauty Mon, 20 May 2019 23:50:44 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Sadness-Beauty Sadness & BeautySadness and beauty are neither mutually exclusive nor opposites — in fact the fusing of the two is a common condition. And for some of us, embracing sadness is beauty — so much so that often objects of pain and dread are quickly and involuntarily transformed into a gorgeous peacefulness. Images: Paul Virillio, Bunker Archeology https://affections.cargo.site/Dare-to-Know Mon, 20 May 2019 23:52:33 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Dare-to-Know Dare to Know“Sapere aude (dare to know)! Remains the motto of an enlightenment that, even in the twilight of the most recent dangers, resists intimidation by catastrophe. Only out of its courage can a future still unfold that would be more than the expanded reproduction of the worst of the past. Such courage nourishes itself from the now faint currents of recollection of a spontaneous ability of life to be-in-order, an order not constructed by anybody.” From Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason, 1983 https://affections.cargo.site/Elastic-Implications Mon, 20 May 2019 23:55:08 +0000 Affection(s) — Cargo Example Site https://affections.cargo.site/Elastic-Implications Elastic ImplicationsArtist Robert Smithson’s medium was scale — and we’re not talking merely volumetric size here but like pharmacological, tectonic scale. “Scale” with cosmic, elastic implications — scale as in fractals! 🌀🌀🌀 #scaleismycopilot Images: Robert Smithson