Vinyl
Single Image | 'Vinyl' | Friend and colleague and her vinyl fetish | Catalog Music | Brisbane | 2020
not for us
i tell them they are free to fail but none believe me - that our degrees don’t matter - and our phds don’t matter - just heart and awareness - of the vast cosmic sea - and the realisation that
hope
what of this future | our responsibility | and the lack of it | see hope slip through our fingers like straws in the wind never again to be clutched
build
I think the higher education should slow down. Be a courageous example to the world. Allow us time - and make it safe - to just lean in. Become the stationary philosophical dream
perform | angst
... so the mechanism and the machine | with its hulking and ghostly grey pillars | of efficiency and extraction and exploitation | can continue its relentless grind forward
shoot
Show me what - and how - you think without using language. When you are not constrained by its abstraction and reduction. Let me see what you see. That concrete reality for which there are no words.
jacked in
the ancient biological sphere of all human thought and experience / encircling the earth / wrangled / rounded up / digitised then disconnected / from its source / consciousness concentrated / and collected / confiscated by clouds
blah
My daughter scribbles on my lecture notes. Which lie scattered around the house. This was her latest. She has a point. And any academic lamenting poor attendance and engagement in their lectures should consider it one of the biggest reasons
off grid
i am going to go offline for a bit. for those doing the experience course I am going to press my hands into the earth. for those doing the tech I am more than happy to let the technium whisper