January 2011
7 posts
“Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comic Books” at the Courtauld today blew my mind. So I’m going to sleep with my mind blown.
Jan 22nd
Jan 16th
Science surrealism
La montagne ne commença à saigner qu’à l’aube de troisième jour (7). [It was only at dawn of the third day that the mountain began to bleed.] C’est le sable cannibale… Certains disent d’ailleurs que ce n’était pas vraiment du sable, mais que chaque “grain” était en réalite un miniscule insecte carnivore (12).[It’s cannibal sand… Some people claim that it wasn’t truly sand...
Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
F:F:F
Jan 4th
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A fleeting brainwave
Billy Prion’s billboards (Tokyo and Moscow) in Pattern Recognition are mutations of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg’s billboard from The Great Gatsby. Needless to say, this particular avenue of thought can be traveled down in the direction of what this says about the world and the existential atmosphere in Gibson.
Jan 3rd
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“… more post-geographic than multinational …”
– William Gibson Pattern Recognition, page 7.
Jan 1st
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