tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:05:05 +0000ObituariesMLAmeetingbelgiumkookstechnologyKaballahHow to writefacial expressionsOulipolinguisticsloose thoughtsThe voice of discontentilluminatifishmoviesbooksMiracleend of timesconsciousnessconspiracycabinet of curiositiescartoone-booksHermeticismWordsMaybe Logicmythologyideogrammatic methodquantumAstrologyplagiarismarchitectural folliesbehaviorParisProjectsheteroclite'Pataphysicsmaastrichtplagiats par anticipationFinnegans Wakecity tripSzukalskisymbologyweird musicChasing the snark into the fnordshttp://clinamen23.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (borsky)Blogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5292426877123023878Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:01:00 +00002012-01-15T15:05:05.117+01:00Obituaries George Whitmann 1913-2011  "On Wednesday 14th December, 2011, George Whitman died peacefully at home in the apartment above his bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, in Paris. George suffered a stroke two months ago, but showed incredible strength and determination up to the end, continuing to read every day in the company of his daughter, Sylvia, his friends and his cat and dog. He diedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/0K-TfK3NreI/boheme-amongst-books.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/0K-TfK3NreI" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2012/01/boheme-amongst-books.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-1890802743670402562Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:43:00 +00002011-12-31T11:43:03.085+01:00People looking for a Grand Unifying Theory of spirituality appear to me to impoverish their life. Do they walk around in the same clothes every day of the year? IMHO consciousness can grow by trying to multiply your paradigms without searching for similarities. Crowley proposed to get into a different religion or philosophy every week to stretch your consciousness. All paradigms are allegorical http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/8DIZQq4hsmA/paradigms-as-allegories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/8DIZQq4hsmA" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/12/paradigms-as-allegories.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-862722768438852538Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:00:00 +00002012-01-15T14:54:21.901+01:00Obituaries Roland Dubillard died a few weeks ago. A brilliant poet, writer, comedian and actor, he used to consider the world and himself in it with a distant joy and a joyful distance. « Je n'aime pas beaucoup mes poèmes... » Avant de préciser : « Je suis mal placé pour en parler, ce n'est pas à moi d'en parler. » Et puis, et on le retrouve lorsqu'il prétend il dira la même chose pour ses pièces : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/utPEl_oyvLk/cest-pas-la-pluie-qui-mouille-cest-leau.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/utPEl_oyvLk" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/12/cest-pas-la-pluie-qui-mouille-cest-leau.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4197721781029031496Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:59:00 +00002011-11-20T00:59:00.401+01:00architectural follieskooksIn the Correspondancier du collège de 'pataphysique n. 11 there was an article concerning the bizarre 'world machine' of Franz Gsellmann. A simple farmer, he started combining objects and ended up building a gigantic machine with no purpose whatsoever. After a while people started to offer him junk, which he incorporated; they even offered him tools to work on the machine which he incorporated ashttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/1xUyis0NFNE/world-machine-of-franz-gsellmann.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/1xUyis0NFNE" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/11/world-machine-of-franz-gsellmann.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8964254835626040357Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:20:00 +00002011-08-11T00:45:17.256+02:00WordsThe experience that the commonplace is alien, usually through the medium of art. Developped by Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) in his essay "Art as device" in 1917, it originally meant the feeling of defamiliarization or estrangement of reality in literature. "The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/J2iONmytHWI/word-of-month-ostranenie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/J2iONmytHWI" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/08/word-of-month-ostranenie.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5095870430787243501Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:23:00 +00002011-07-28T23:35:57.661+02:00linguisticsDuring one of his lectures American anthropologist Franz Boas mentioned that the eskimos knew four different words for snow. What he probably meant was that the word 'eskimo' was abused to round up very different tribes with very different languages.Later on a very different meaning was given to his intervention: allegedly 'eskimos' as a nation had different words for snow because they were http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/h5JezJlHviA/failure-of-sapir-whorf-hypothesis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/h5JezJlHviA" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/07/failure-of-sapir-whorf-hypothesis.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-1767082172840364086Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:35:00 +00002011-07-27T23:51:35.721+02:00WordsplagiarismThe Freeman as a measure of plagiaryIn 1991, Ned Feder and Walter Stewart, both working for USA's National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) devised an automatic plagiary detector.Both scientists had started hunting down fraudulent research in the eighties. Their investigations took all their time, hence they had no time for research of their own. Quite soon their http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/g3FZK0KYqHc/word-of-month-freeman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/g3FZK0KYqHc" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/07/word-of-month-freeman.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-37731882167165572Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:02:00 +00002011-07-16T15:00:20.335+02:00maastrichtcity tripbooksBooks I found in Maastricht:Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: "Good Omens", Corgi 1991.Kurt Vonnegut: "Welcome to the monkey house", Dial Press, 2010.Robert Vanderplank: "Uglier than a monkey's armpit", Boxtree, 2007.Adam Jacot de Boinod: "De gekietelde kameel", Mouria 2005 (originally "The meaning of Tingo")."Guide de la Bretagne mystérieuse", les guides noirs, Tchou, 1966.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/qxcIFWhaku4/maastricht.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/qxcIFWhaku4" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/07/maastricht.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3439627526448667374Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:34:00 +00002011-07-06T15:52:38.240+02:00'PataphysicsThrough the years I have collected quite some URLs on Blogmarks. I intend to show some collections here. Today my bookmarks concerning pataphysics. All sites are in French unless when mentionned otherwise.For older links on the same subject I refer to my other posts on this blog:Pataphysical linksBorderline 'pataphysicsPataphysical individualsMore 'pataphysics onlineSome recent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/u4_H2jc7my4/links-001-even-more-pataphysics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/u4_H2jc7my4" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/07/links-001-even-more-pataphysics.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8118596997461810280Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:06:00 +00002011-07-06T14:06:44.178+02:00ParisbooksI went on a bookhunt to Paris two days ago. My first visit was to the Puces of Saint-Ouen. Most shops were closed on Mondays though.From there I took the Metro to the secretive Librairie Faustroll. A treasure trove. If I should ever win the lottery this will be my first visit. I purchased a fair amount of books from the Collège de 'Pataphysique. Enough said.I always wanted to see the Sainte http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/EaVRWsyC2o0/eburonis-in-paris.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/EaVRWsyC2o0" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/07/eburonis-in-paris.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6773248704677603260Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:45:00 +00002011-07-06T10:20:29.295+02:00plagiats par anticipationI just came across an engraving by Grandville who might have plagiarized in advance a drawing in the Codex Seraphinianus:Théodore Grandville "Crime et expiation" in "le Magasin pittoresque",1847Luigi Serafini, "Codex Seraphinianus", 1978http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/6j1YuK7o7bU/grandville-and-codex-seraphinianus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/6j1YuK7o7bU" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/04/grandville-and-codex-seraphinianus.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6588485275440473607Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:24:00 +00002011-04-22T23:45:07.669+02:00WordsFrom Merriam-Webster:"a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow.If cockalorum suggests a crowing cock, that's because cockalorum probably comes from kockeloeren – an obsolete Dutch dialect verb meaning "to crow."Obsolete it is not, but misspelled it is. We don't combine c with k in Dutch, that's a typically English combination. The Dutch word is koekeloeren, and it means to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/5P3nQN9aGHg/word-of-month-cockalorum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/5P3nQN9aGHg" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/04/word-of-month-cockalorum.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3892836728360431199Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:41:00 +00002011-03-28T19:48:25.032+02:00SzukalskiI just read the Pasadena City College's curator Brian Tucker organised a brilliant exhibition back in 2009 titled 'Mantong and Protong: Richard Sharpe Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski'. Sadly it seems no catalog has been printed. Read more on the similarities bot visionary artists:On the site of the Pasadena City College Art GalleryOn Paranoids Online blogOn the site of the Western Fortean http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/F-dv6_CR_zk/update-on-szukalski.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/F-dv6_CR_zk" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-szukalski.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8751148691756390768Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:12:00 +00002011-02-16T01:29:15.062+01:00mythology(first read Part 1)51. As the original intruder into the paradise where the infant dwells with its mother, the father is the archetypal enemy; hence, throughout life all enemies are symbolical. Hence, too, the irresistible compulsion to make war. the old men of the immediate community protect themselves from their growing sons by the psychological magick of their totemic rituals through which http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/3CFb4QIe-g8/hero-with-1000-faces-in-100-quotes-pt-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/3CFb4QIe-g8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/02/hero-with-1000-faces-in-100-quotes-pt-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2198230263241721864Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:43:00 +00002011-02-16T01:30:01.923+01:00mythologyIn 2009 I read Howard Campbells "The Hero with 1000 faces". I started taking notes listing what appeared to me to be distinct themes and strangely when I closed the book I counted exactly 100 notes. These are not to be considered literal quotes. Whenever I found fit I removed some bits and combined others. They all seemed to me to express the core thoughts in this seminal book. You can read a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/rqvp6J51yQk/hero-with-1000-faces-in-100-quotes-pt-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/rqvp6J51yQk" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/02/hero-with-1000-faces-in-100-quotes-pt-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6901806905419952565Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:37:00 +00002011-01-22T11:28:53.383+01:00illuminaticonspiracyI wrote a new post on the Only Maybe blog on this very strange book.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/NCIsdC3MH-g/seven-heads-of-green-dragon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/NCIsdC3MH-g" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/01/seven-heads-of-green-dragon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7930345288299693561Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:35:00 +00002011-01-06T00:09:51.789+01:00'PataphysicsbooksI treated myself to some books for new year. My package just arrived. It feels exhilarating to open up a box and tear away the packaging paper to discover books I have searched for for quite a while!Above all there's a beautiful box named 'Cabinet de curiosités', about which I had read in the publication of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. Basically it's reminding of the Renaissance curiosity http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/6oMsqzaRH-8/some-additions-to-ububibliotheque.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/6oMsqzaRH-8" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-additions-to-ububibliotheque.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2459603522973017937Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:46:00 +00002010-12-31T20:49:54.315+01:00'PataphysicsconspiracyI just published a new post on the Only Maybe blog.A pataphysical conspiracyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/mu2dmFLBM_c/pataphysical-conspiracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/mu2dmFLBM_c" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/12/pataphysical-conspiracy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5804639803547259575Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:40:00 +00002010-12-23T23:57:36.156+01:00WordsRaggamuffin.A person wearing ragged cloathing. From tatter, to torn into shreds, and demalion, of uncertain origin."Florry Talbot, a blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry, lolls spreadeagle in the sofa corner, her limp forearm pendent over the bolster, listening” - James Joyce, UlyssesThere, my little mabinogs, now you know.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/RFvnhhVvUPk/word-of-month-tatterdemalion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/RFvnhhVvUPk" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/12/word-of-month-tatterdemalion.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4024630973428611936Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:20:00 +00002010-12-17T18:23:44.329+01:00moviesfishfacial expressions I've watched 'Machete' the other day. Weird. First time I see a flick where Steven Seagal is NOT the one with the most challenged set of facial expressions. Here's a small anthology of mr. Trejo's unique achievements, reenacting some of the finest scenes of the 7th artform. Expressions? We ain't go no expressions. We don't need no expressions. I don't have to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/IXogxewzUKs/danny-trejo-hero-with-1000-faces.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/IXogxewzUKs" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/12/danny-trejo-hero-with-1000-faces.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-492686523749429110Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:04:00 +00002010-10-14T22:18:45.219+02:00Hermeticism12. Giordano Bruno in England and the hermetic reform.58. First steps in England - Bruno's first publication in England, dedicated to the French ambassador, was a reprint from the Cantus Circaeus combined with 2 new works: the 'Explicatio Triginta Sigillosum' and the 'Sigillis sicillorum'. The book is a further development of memory as a major tool in the formation of the magus. Bruno hoped to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/0y2ZgQ985Zs/giordano-bruno-chapter-12.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/0y2ZgQ985Zs" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/10/giordano-bruno-chapter-12.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7982559812419910356Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:31:00 +00002010-10-08T20:39:09.835+02:00Hermeticism11. Giordano Bruno: First visit to Paris44. First years - Bruno was born in Nola next to Mount Vesuvius in 1548. He entered the Dominican order in 1563, got in trouble for heresy in 1576 and fled through Europe. After residing among Calvinists in Geneva he went to Paris in 1581 where he gave public lectures and published his first two books on the magickal art of memory.45. Ars memoria - The http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/3U2ZzjWd6GQ/giordano-bruno-chapter-11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/3U2ZzjWd6GQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/10/giordano-bruno-chapter-11.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4947640993989005810Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:12:00 +00002010-10-02T01:41:01.531+02:00Hermeticism2. Ficino's Pimander and the Asclepius16. A collection of individual reports - In order to understand the attitude in the Renaissance towards magick in the Asclepius, one must first consider the piety the Pimander seemed to reveal. The hermetic writings are by different unknown authors and of varying dates. Even the individual treatises are composites. Never were they intended as a coherent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/9KrhaENn6xs/giordano-bruno-chapter-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/9KrhaENn6xs" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/10/giordano-bruno-chapter-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7996129950990728254Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:07:00 +00002010-10-02T01:40:38.965+02:00HermeticismI'm reading Frances Yates' tantalizing "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition". My biased synthesis of chapter 1.1. Hermes Trismegistus1. Recorso - The great forward movement of the Renaissance derived its vigour from loking at the past. Man's history was seen as a perpetual cycle of golden, brazen and iron ages and back. The word Renaissance itself meant that progress was only possible http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/TICcioY_C4c/giordano-bruno-chapter-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/TICcioY_C4c" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/10/giordano-bruno-chapter-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-8086097727492699675Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:07:00 +00002010-09-29T23:10:52.120+02:00Maybe LogicKaballahAstrologyHermeticismLast week, preparing for Fly Agaric's Email to the Tribe course on the Maybe Logic Academy I was thinking on Giordano Bruno's bizarre idea of using archetypes as images in something quite trivial as a memory system to perform so-called magickal deeds. Then I attended a lesson by my Kaballah teacher and asked him about the golem and was a bit disappointed by his negative reaction towards, again http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clinamen/~3/d-Pbrgy9mhA/best-kept-secret.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (borsky)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Clinamen/~4/d-Pbrgy9mhA" height="1" width="1"/>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-kept-secret.html