Friday, September 7, 2007
as a kind of ex-cyberpunk i should be a science fiction fan, but i am just not … something about being unwilling to suspend my disbelief. however william gibson explains why science fiction is about the present, and his observations on the strange kind of reality we live in this recent interview in the washington [...]
the quest for global interpretations and grand narratives is always a mistaken one, assuming a shapeliness in human affairs and a simplicity in human motivation never encountered in muddy actuality. nowadays no one much hankers for the panoramic view of where we all were and where we are all going, once offered by marxism or [...]
Saturday, January 13, 2007
i found a book of photographs of utrecht in 1942, my home town two years into the nazi occupation – the city has changed a lot more in the last thirty years or so than it did in the thirty year period immediately after the war (i left in 1972) and so it looks eerily [...]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Given the facts as I know them – and there’s a lot of evidence on both sides – I prefer being uncertain to taking the easy way out and getting rid of my discomfort by being absolutely certain. I don’t know, and no one on this earth can be absolutely certain of the truth here. [...]
one of the most interesting thinkers In Amsterdam is tjebbe van tijen – i spent some time with him in the late seventies and i think i may have been in love with his wife for a day and a half – i wrote about him somewhere in my phd ( … rummage … )
he [...]
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
the walks i remember best are the early
early walks i did
when i first embarked upon
my campaign to get a bit more fit
i was surprised by the strength
in my own legs & i thought : i can walk fast!
—
i.j.oog
wagga wagga*
spring 2006
(* wagga wagga : so half-arsed we had to name it twice)
Monday, September 25, 2006
in places like universities,
where everyone talks too rationally,
it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear
quoted by elizabeth devonshire
university of newcastle department of fine art graduation catalogue
newcastle nsw australia 1994
Action Piece
26 February 1972
presented as part of seven exhibitions held at the Tate Gallery 24 Feburary – 23 March 1972
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