tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:41:06 +0000Chasing the snark into the fnordshttp://clinamen23.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (borsky)Blogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4288167396040644346Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:35:00 +00002009-11-26T23:39:30.901+01:00technologyIn the ancient times, only the rich owned books. Usually the bookshelf consisted of one, sometimes a few precious grimoires.Then came Gutenberg. And knowledge (and doubt) became more accessible.Today the Gutenberg galaxy appears more and more to loose its touch with the digital era. As a graphic designer, I'm trained into getting things published on paper. Now I'm learning to become a webmaster http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/uPOO_gghQJ8/digital-bookshelves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/uPOO_gghQJ8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/11/digital-bookshelves.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3977395777040298902Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:15:00 +00002009-11-08T15:40:17.108+01:00The last issue of the Correspondancier du Collège de 'Pataphysique had wonderful illustrations (so-called 'culs-de-lampe') in shadowform. Done by Isidro Ferrer, member of the altissimo Instituto de Estudios Pataphysicos de La Candelaria, an extremely gifted graphic designer, typographer and sculptor. Some of his work reminds me of Jacques Carelmans 'Objets Introuvables' as Ferrer tends to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/VvWh0LjMyKA/crazy-associations-of-isidro-ferrer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/VvWh0LjMyKA" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/11/crazy-associations-of-isidro-ferrer.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4679447720076624373Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-09-22T23:04:45.381+02:00Maybe LogicI joined my dissident friends of the Maybe Logic Academy in a new forum, courtesy of Bobby Campbell .It's called Tale of the tribe and it feels just like the MLA used to 4 years ago when I first joined. I probably will refrain from posting here in a while as I'm trying out the blog module over there. And, well, the interface seems better than Blogger's.PS I just started courses to make me a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/hPp8wIwXI3M/tale-of-tribe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/hPp8wIwXI3M" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/09/tale-of-tribe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6901622562904395746Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:46:00 +00002009-09-01T00:04:43.609+02:00http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/ZyIsXqllPh8/lymagier-du-pere-borsky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/ZyIsXqllPh8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/08/lymagier-du-pere-borsky.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5992071830525227398Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:30:00 +00002009-08-31T20:52:35.943+02:00Maybe Logicideogrammatic methodI read the French translation of Pound's interpretation of Fenolosa's text, "Le charactère écrit Chinois, matériau poétique"Here's a brief and biased summary:At first Fenollosa examines the absence of a true grammar (which he defines as the differenciation in a language of verbs, substantives etc.) in Chinese. He claims that basically, all words are born in verbs; more, he claims that in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/qq0IEP8CqjU/pound-fuller-korzybski-and-fenollosa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/qq0IEP8CqjU" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/08/pound-fuller-korzybski-and-fenollosa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7721109183497911482Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +00002009-08-31T20:51:50.792+02:00MiracleI was flyering in the neighborhoodabout a week after that my cat had disappeared, thinking there was little point but what the heckafter half an hour went looking for a place to hang a flyer where there was no chance he could show upand almost pasted a flyer on him jumping from a windowsill.Excelsior(I had to lie down on the pavement for a few minutes before he trusted me enough to jump in my http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/q7YnBtZWfBI/hoo-fhasa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/q7YnBtZWfBI" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/08/hoo-fhasa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8589398119523893657Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:02:00 +00002009-08-02T04:08:51.345+02:00ObituariesKIAaka 'Krapuul In Actie'1995 or 6 - 2009Disappeared without a trace a week agoGod on the left, Kia on the right The Yang out of the Tao, the Podge out of the ChaoWherever you are I'm sure you're partaking in the great infinite catYour little friend God is looking for you everywhere (and so am I)I've known many cats but you were the fifth angel (God isn't even close but trying), and the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/sa7QaIIhD_w/dove-sta-memoria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/sa7QaIIhD_w" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/08/dove-sta-memoria.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4919517890751641307Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:00 +00002009-08-31T20:52:20.517+02:00Maybe LogicThe Hindu cosmology considers time as endless and cyclic of nature, and divided into 5 ages:Satya Yuga, The Golden Age of perfect Bliss (4800 divine years): Satya means "Truth"; also called Krta or "action".Treta Yuga, The Silver Age of lesser Virtue (3600 divine years): Treta means "Three", the age in which the feelings and forces of good are as three parts, and those of evil as one.Dwapara Yugahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/QUTE1QWEUUM/law-of-fives-hindu-cosmology-cyclic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/QUTE1QWEUUM" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/law-of-fives-hindu-cosmology-cyclic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3483917962438946220Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:51:00 +00002009-07-25T12:13:40.676+02:00symbologyReading the seminal Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell in the last part of the chapter 'The ultimate boon' following biased transcription seemed quite enlightening to me:The infantile fantasies which we all cherish in the unconscious appear continually into myth. This is helpful, for the mind feels at home with the images and seems to be remembering something already known. But the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/ddyDh93AKig/symboloclasty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/ddyDh93AKig" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/symboloclasty.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8854177097932802425Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:00 +00002009-07-16T01:57:17.299+02:00The voice of discontentI usually don't rant on social nor political subjects, but this one appears to me the European counterpart of what they're doing promoting genetically engineered vegetables and forbidding biofood in the states.I'm talking of the insidious 'Codex Alimentarius' which should become effective in the European Union at the end of 2009. Some people in high places have decided for example that ayurvedichttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/-YCpRJJPdos/big-brother-and-codex-alimentarius.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/-YCpRJJPdos" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/big-brother-and-codex-alimentarius.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8756236183127807895Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:20:00 +00002009-07-15T02:20:01.665+02:00This post was written in April 2007.  Ideas which deserve to be cont'd…I realized several books I have been reading after one another seem to hint towards a similar concept. Amazing how Robert Anton Wilson's influence evolves; one of his great abilities was always to me how he managed to synchronize different ideas into new frameworks. The Toth of coincidanceI'm talking about Korzybski's idea of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/t17lAxH-uGQ/attempts-to-evaluate-entropic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/t17lAxH-uGQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/attempts-to-evaluate-entropic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2881315806343301680Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:49:00 +00002009-07-14T21:52:06.908+02:00'PataphysicsI stumbled upon several blogs of 'pataphysical interest.Zombie 'PataphysicsThe first and best is Zombie 'Pataphysics, and it is no surprise it is hosted by a prominent (les membres du Collège de 'Pataphysique sont des hélianthes) member of the collège, namely the Régent of the chair of Catachemistry and Computational Metallurgy , Brian Reffin Smith. clipped from www.drunkenboat.comZombie Art: Ashttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/aPGlCJapGSU/more-online.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/aPGlCJapGSU" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-online.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6503957950183966622Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:48:00 +00002009-07-14T21:24:20.887+02:00Maybe Logic'Pataphysics Assumptions based on assumptionsThe Pataphor seems to me a meeting point between Maybe Logics, Forteana, quantum physics and 'Pataphysics. It's a term coined by writer / musician Pablo Lopez for a second degree of separation beyond the metaphor. background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/K22_NOw8n2M/this-month-word-pataphor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/K22_NOw8n2M" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-month-word-pataphor.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2836932943173715304Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:55:00 +00002009-06-15T22:47:34.692+02:00I went to Damme last Sunday. The town organises a book fair every second Sunday. Not much to find on the market, all mass products and residues of an obsessive-compulsive society (and it's a pity for all those trees). But I ended up in a little bookshop I hadn't noticed before, a bit remote from the main road. The first book I discovered was "Encyclopédie des farces et attrapes et des http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/kjr2laxGht4/treasure-hunt-in-island-of-books.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/kjr2laxGht4" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/06/treasure-hunt-in-island-of-books.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8564126363530615012Thu, 21 May 2009 05:19:00 +00002009-05-21T07:21:17.857+02:00Wronski's prognometer - a mathematical oracle I read about Jozef Hoëné Wronski in the first issue of Les Cahiers de l'Institut (2008), a French magazine dedicated to my favourite subject, the Fous littéraires or litterary insanity - sometimes called kooks. It strikes me how in the drawing by Felix Valotton below he looks like Baudelaire! It seems Wronski (born Hoëné, 1778-1853) was and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/6QwKg3OqLZk/wheels-within-wheels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/6QwKg3OqLZk" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/05/wheels-within-wheels.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5751374464141956836Thu, 07 May 2009 18:00:00 +00002009-05-07T20:00:52.475+02:00At my previous dwelling I had used plastic film to cover the windows from  curious passers-by. I had cut holes through to permit my five cats to look outside. The holes up front had the form of three huge cats,  at the side  they looked like books with cat eyes or paws and at the back I had cut out small spirals for myself to look outside.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/QrV1DvQMIzc/cats-and-curiosity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/QrV1DvQMIzc" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/05/cats-and-curiosity.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4788271992732973083Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:14:00 +00002009-03-21T22:23:52.474+01:00Discordian spread on 21st march 2009, 9.45 PMWholly molly. Gives me the jeepers.1. Central Card: Right where I'm sitting now: ConfusionMythical perception: The Mandalabyrinth. Indeed I have no clue whatsoever where my life is leading me, all I can do is walk on and on and see what happens after next corner.2. Lower Left card: the way the world influences me: ChaosSensorial perception: A Pale http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/RzApfHHS4Gs/discordian-spread-on-21st-march.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/RzApfHHS4Gs" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/03/discordian-spread-on-21st-march.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8754755848847865736Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:48:00 +00002009-03-09T00:48:53.366+01:00Yesterday I pulled cards from my personal neurotarot, which I designed during Antero Alli's Astrologik course at the Maybe Logic Academy. The complete set and the explanations can be freely downloaded in  Maybe Quarterly, issue 7.Frightingly accurate right now.1. Middle card: the present  situation. Confusion.'The Queen of Wants' (Emotional expression)I'm full of wanting and emotion right now. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/EDKxCNxGJGQ/discordian-spread-on-8th-march.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/EDKxCNxGJGQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/03/discordian-spread-on-8th-march.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3149990274981109711Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:11:00 +00002009-02-19T22:17:01.423+01:00end of timesI'll never go that far ever again…http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/owvnoomaWo8/images-of-happiness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/owvnoomaWo8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/02/images-of-happiness.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8322339763242310144Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:57:00 +00002009-02-16T00:01:05.452+01:00heterocliteThis week I received the first two issues of the world's first magazine dedicated entirely to the literary mad or kooks, the "Cahiers de l'Institut" published by the IIREFL, the "Institut International de Recherches et d'Exploration sur les Fous Littéraires, hétéroclites, excentriques, irréguliers, outsiders, tapés, assimilés, sans oublier tous les autres".France, the 19th century This subject http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/DWsqz7eSFmI/literary-madness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/DWsqz7eSFmI" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/02/literary-madness.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2107737302303912646Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:40:00 +00002009-02-07T09:35:29.472+01:00consciousnessWe might consider apoptosis as the essential ingredient to consciousness.Programmed cell death, for which a death-gene has been designed (intelligently or not), if ever manipulated, might theoretically offer immortality. But at a cost: our memory system functions by cutting out some connections while keeping others. Just like the darkness inbetween the stars, the no-thing that was before the Bighttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/IJD6duamctY/immortal-cucumbers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/IJD6duamctY" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/02/immortal-cucumbers.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7863555908082460884Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-01-26T21:58:16.346+01:00belgiumI was born in a country said to exist only because of some strange coincidences.Where surrealism became hilarious in the South and expressionism became cynical in the North.The land of poets and artists, the land of René Magritte and Jacques Brel.The country of all and ultimate relativity.The nation where its people have no national feeling which they tend to replace with acerbic wit, especiallyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/H88dS6G4uhM/this-used-to-be-my-land.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/H88dS6G4uhM" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-used-to-be-my-land.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7378726046943551898Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:39:00 +00002009-01-19T21:09:55.473+01:00ObituariesNever to be forgottenNumber Six has left the premises.The Prisoner was the most intelligent production I have ever seen on television. I still remember what a huge impact it had on me when I watched it as a child (and I must thank my parents for allowing me to experience such epiphanies at a very young age), it probably directed me towards using at least a part of my brain.Thank you forever http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/3u28ZnYMYU8/be-seeing-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/3u28ZnYMYU8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/01/be-seeing-you.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2354853576544660269Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:42:00 +00002009-01-18T17:45:46.103+01:00BavariaEffectiveness in Bavaria might be less than optimum.I outlined the bits I liked the most. [Read more here]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/xEicGX6b92U/gravitys-rainbow-reader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/xEicGX6b92U" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/01/gravitys-rainbow-reader.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5138006108604043618Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:25:00 +00002009-01-19T20:34:49.056+01:00behaviorAccording to British behavioral biologist Simon Reader, innovative behaviour in a species is not the success story of exceptional individuals who tried to improve their world, but the revenge of fulltime losers, with a low social status, forced to find new ways to escape their misery.Eating a new kind of fruit, perchance the last way to survive for the lowlife individual, maybe a dangerous way, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/ZvLtwWJDAFA/mother-of-invention.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/ZvLtwWJDAFA" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2009/01/mother-of-invention.html