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Everytime we approach any answer, the question undergoes a transformation. -- When I see how sarcasm takes over the world, how far right gains strength, how life itself gets taken over by multi-billion corporations, how information gets logarithmic on our asses, how for the youngster reality and virtuality get mixed up more and more, how psychopaths become a target marketing group on their own and how worldwide -  Anonymous, Fema, Transition etc. - different movements are started bottom-up to try to counteract the big brother spiral, I wonder: at what signal did the Roman citizens realize their civilisation was about to fall and become history? As it has been said: civilization is the transition between barbarism and decadence. -- There is no meaning? All life is just a random pattern? Maybe the meaning of life might is just that: the search for a meaning. -- Death? Let's imagine reality as a purely material event. Death as nothing but the decay of cells. Consciousness as a complex...

(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Part 4. The Book of Sand Chapter 1. Emanations and commissions: the Collège as a tree The sefirotic trees are a metaphor for different emanations of that which a kabbalist calls 'god' for lack of a better word. As in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics , study of kabbalah is a study of that which we are able to percieve, not of the world itself but of its emanations. Revelation stands for the insight into those symbols, which probably tell as much about the examiner as about that which gets examined. The immanent ( Ayin Sof , every-thing) and the transcendent ( Ayin , no-thing) are by definition impossible to percieve. No hidden variables here, but a way of considering different reality-tunnels as in Maybe Logic ! Similarly the structure of the Collège de 'Pataphysiq...

(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Part 2. A Spiral Kabbal Chapter 1. As above, so below The first letter of the hebrew alefbet, Aleph , allegedly was created starting from the image of a man pointing down with one hand and up with the other. In magick it symbolizes the equality of microsphere and macrosphere, the similarity in structure between up and down, the meeting and melting point of the opposites. Eliphas Levi wrote in his magnus opus ' Transcendental Magic ' about the Aleph: "the form is proportional to the idea; the shadow is the measure of the body calculated in its relation to the luminous ray; the scabbard is as deep as the sword is long; the negation is in proportion to the contrary affirmation; production is equal to destruction in the movement which preserves life; and there is no point i...

(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Personification and falsehood   Get a grip on Bat Kol, I'm taking away Jacob's ladder "Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind" Alfred Jarry A 'pataphysician has an altitude in if but no attitude in life. The person , that which mosbunall confuse with the self, is considered as an imaginary solution. There are as many roles on the stage of life as there are possible answers to a poll answered by Jarry. The character of a 'pataphysician is like a glove, like a puppet in a theater .   Advertisement by Jarry for "Les Minutes de Sable Mémorial" in L'Ymagier II (January 1895) A kaballist also sees life as a theatre play. The role played is considered a mere shadow resulting from the rules of the divine li...

(my first post from 2007) First entry. I'll just grab a little text I send to the Maybe Logic   course Tale of the Tribe. The three monotheistic world religions christianity, hebraism and islam all use the concept of sin to keep their cattle on a leash. The Pentateuch contains a huge amount of rules to follow to keep god happy. Two distinct types of evil (but both considered equally bad) coexist within the Hebrew Scriptures: Moral sin (a conscious, intentional, personal attitude and act, close to the concept of sin for christians) and uncleanness (which has nothing to do with motive or intention). Some types of uncleanness, still according to the mosaic code, can only find a solution in the physical elimination. Probably originally a rather cruel but effective way of preserving the community by getting rid of contagious diseases… The word Islam originally means "submission to the will of Allah". Therefore Islam defines sin as an act in contrast to this will. T...

(An old post from 2011) I  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 Gallery On Paranoids Online blog On the site of the Western Fortean Intermediatists (LOWFI) On the Blue Heron Blast blog On Tool's site On the excellent Shavertron blog (in French) So. Are the Yetinsyni really Deros in disguise? Can we explain the rock-books in terms of Zermatism? Read about Szukalski this blog: Behold, Szukalski I'd like to suggest a comparison between Robert Garcet's antehominid sculptures and Richard Shaver's Rokfogo's on the one hand, and between Stanislav Szukalski's large bronze works and the large erotic bronze sculptures of Roland Monteyne. Stanislaw Szukalski...