Very moving statement of the two characters, Toni Morrison the outer persona and Chloe Wofford
the writer herself.
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60555590
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Investigations of Consciousness, Bishop College, 1984, 1985,
The complete course, two or three semesters combined reissued @ AERFilms. Surprise.
Quantum Theory and Prufrock I
Prufrock, The Quantum Man II
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn 2, Sound & Meaning
True Human Being - The Relation to the Cosmos
Prophetic Confirmations
Litterature
Kafka and the Modern Investigation of Consciousness
Nineteen Eighty Four was the Terminator symbol of absolutism in the year 1984 when this class convened. One fictional beginning of official deception, secret surveillance, manipulation of the past came full circle in government drone strikes upon American citizens wherever they are found. This was anti-climactic as had occurred in multiple forms for years. To track these undercurrents behind the eyeball of lit and consciousness is a kind of literary stand up. The imagined comedic prophetic reprehensibilities could be lies from the government, science and religion in the very Ubu state! Take it with a grain of salt and laugh; the classes were always charged by fresh water from student minds outflowing. The tapes were put in the Zale library the next day in '84 and '85 for reference. The written text was the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, II, Fourth Edition; you can buy one for a buck.
In an unstated conclusion 1984 assumes that the purpose of the 20th century was
to break down boundaries in order to initiate earth into
its new order. We are not ourselves the causes of world pollution,
disease, famine and
destruction that we are blamed for but the victims of it. These things have been a long time
preparing so relax as we find out. The blame of Forces has
been shifted to scapegoat the ordinary citizen who is so manipulated
and controlled that he thinks he caused global warming. There being no control groups
to
measure global pandemics, since they are global, in the midst of experiments that change the course of
human existence these tapes are a kind of control group of how it
happened along the way. We'd not have proved the harm of tobacco
without such groups, that is,
people who didn't smoke. We knew it was coming but now it is here. These tapes rebroadcast in 2013 may reconstruct to know now what
is.
The naive persona of the teacher-speaker was outside the veil of what is allowable in ironic contemporary discourse. But many of the students in that place and time were too. A good pic of the classroom may exist only in memory, but the very international mix of students from Africa in those classes, along with a number of outspoken and older students with their mature and sometimes humorous responses provoked the way the conversations went. These make the tapes almost as interesting as themselves. To hear the broad language of the Kenyans and Nigerians pleasures the ear, but they all treasured the moment in the same spirit. Not like critical classes shorn of belief, these people from all over the world were in awe of their opportunity to be taught by an American Ph.D., as they would say it. If that sounds totally naif, it does stop the mouth of the accuser. They shall not all be taught, meaning that like a child, their naivete would lead them. And it would be fun.
We set out in 1984 to define The Quantum Man, to celebrate the year that had a book written about it. 1984 beat out 2000, it beat out 2012.
Of the particular tapes uploaded so far to capture the extermination of the traditional by the modern.
Quantum Theory and Prufrock I
Prufrock, The Quantum Man II
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn 2, Sound & Meaning
True Human Being - The Relation to the Cosmos
Prophetic Confirmations
Litterature
Kafka and the Modern Investigation of Consciousness
Nineteen Eighty Four was the Terminator symbol of absolutism in the year 1984 when this class convened. One fictional beginning of official deception, secret surveillance, manipulation of the past came full circle in government drone strikes upon American citizens wherever they are found. This was anti-climactic as had occurred in multiple forms for years. To track these undercurrents behind the eyeball of lit and consciousness is a kind of literary stand up. The imagined comedic prophetic reprehensibilities could be lies from the government, science and religion in the very Ubu state! Take it with a grain of salt and laugh; the classes were always charged by fresh water from student minds outflowing. The tapes were put in the Zale library the next day in '84 and '85 for reference. The written text was the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, II, Fourth Edition; you can buy one for a buck.
The naive persona of the teacher-speaker was outside the veil of what is allowable in ironic contemporary discourse. But many of the students in that place and time were too. A good pic of the classroom may exist only in memory, but the very international mix of students from Africa in those classes, along with a number of outspoken and older students with their mature and sometimes humorous responses provoked the way the conversations went. These make the tapes almost as interesting as themselves. To hear the broad language of the Kenyans and Nigerians pleasures the ear, but they all treasured the moment in the same spirit. Not like critical classes shorn of belief, these people from all over the world were in awe of their opportunity to be taught by an American Ph.D., as they would say it. If that sounds totally naif, it does stop the mouth of the accuser. They shall not all be taught, meaning that like a child, their naivete would lead them. And it would be fun.
We set out in 1984 to define The Quantum Man, to celebrate the year that had a book written about it. 1984 beat out 2000, it beat out 2012.
Of the particular tapes uploaded so far to capture the extermination of the traditional by the modern.
Prufrock is seen as opposite Ode to Autumn. Other examples of these oppositions will follow. As to True Human Being, Prophetic Confirmations and Cutting Edge,
all done together, the proof is in the eating. In each of these an
ultimately shocking statement develops out of a naive process.
True Human Being concludes that humans are space travelers to come, but not in the sense of current NASA and ET thought, not at all. The dominion of the hands is a birthright, before genome, it is inalienable in the creation of the human being. All kinds of things follow from this, among them, that when the Vatican, science and the United States presidents announce the arrival of their alien co-conspirators, it is obviously a ruse. They will not come to us, but we will go to them, for we have been given dominion over the works of his hands. Hands are very big in this piece. Perhaps only poetry could have said it so well.
Prophetic Confirmations naively asks whether we are ready and eager to conclude these affairs, to some incredulity and laughter, because who could be, yet who isn't? So after ranging from the ease of the Old Testament prophecy of Palm Sunday the conclusion of Jerusalem occurs, but with this encouragement that helps, from Zachariah, that in that day the feeblest among us will be as David, and the house of David will be as Lord and the Angel of the Lord. Think about it.
The Cutting Edge makes the most extreme statement that to the modern mind can be made when, after change upon change, it says that Jesus can restore your imagination. This will equally gall all sides, leaving no one except the incredulous in the store.
True Human Being concludes that humans are space travelers to come, but not in the sense of current NASA and ET thought, not at all. The dominion of the hands is a birthright, before genome, it is inalienable in the creation of the human being. All kinds of things follow from this, among them, that when the Vatican, science and the United States presidents announce the arrival of their alien co-conspirators, it is obviously a ruse. They will not come to us, but we will go to them, for we have been given dominion over the works of his hands. Hands are very big in this piece. Perhaps only poetry could have said it so well.
Prophetic Confirmations naively asks whether we are ready and eager to conclude these affairs, to some incredulity and laughter, because who could be, yet who isn't? So after ranging from the ease of the Old Testament prophecy of Palm Sunday the conclusion of Jerusalem occurs, but with this encouragement that helps, from Zachariah, that in that day the feeblest among us will be as David, and the house of David will be as Lord and the Angel of the Lord. Think about it.
The Cutting Edge makes the most extreme statement that to the modern mind can be made when, after change upon change, it says that Jesus can restore your imagination. This will equally gall all sides, leaving no one except the incredulous in the store.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Christopher Sauer's Letter of 1724
Letter of Christopher Sower, Written in 1724, Describing Conditions in Philadelphia and Vicinity, and the Sea Voyage from Europe
here http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/sauer_letter_transcription.pdf
See also Sower's Letter to Conrad Beissel, 1739
here http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/sauer_letter_transcription.pdf
See also Sower's Letter to Conrad Beissel, 1739
Literary Activity of the German Baptist Brethren in the Eighteenth Century. John Samuel Flory
Friday, July 27, 2012
Method of Composition
On Tavis Smiley, Frank Gehry, asked of his method of inspiration / composition, said that it is in work, model building over and over till an idea emerges. That is the important theme in the method of composition, finding out what is there to be designed only by working, except he said, and showed it, the second sketch he ever made of Bilbao looks very like the finished work. This is, he said, one of a kind, not that it proves anything, but validates the process in the exception. Much more of Gehry's mythology here.
I am not a conceptual artist. I can’t just sit there and
think of an idea. Most of it comes out of my hands . . . I have always used
whatever comes to hand, or into my head, that makes sense in my own work, that
I can get some energy from.” Peter Voulkos quoted posthumously in Ceramics
Monthly, April 2002
“The minute you begin
to understand what you’re doing it loses that searching quality. You have to
forget about the little technical problems that don’t matter—you’ve overcome
them long ago anyway. You finally reach a point where you’re no longer
concerned with keeping this blob of clay centered on the wheel and up in the
air. Your emotions take over and what happens just happens. Usually you don’t
know it’s happened until after it’s done.”
Likewise in Rising: The Art and Life of John Waddel (excerpt) the method of work is the same, except it's not in paper but in large forms of wood, beeswax, stone, sketched over and over and applied to models on the wall out of which his Rising emerged after a decade of so of tearing down and building back up. That is, he did not know what he was making until it was made.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen on Mount Baldy
Come to this with Van de Wetering's After Zen for insight. Roshi is now 104 so he is a respectable being. Cohen in this 45 minute film is in good condition also, but he doesn't know that the aluminum in Mr. Baldy groundwater is 61,000ppb The greatest curse comes as a blessing because when it comes it is irresistible and deadly. See "Going Home in Old Ideas
But he does say what I tell him
Even though it isn’t welcome
He just doesn’t have the freedom
To refuse [he can refuse, but who would who has sought it all of life, to be awakened in the night!]
He will speak these words of wisdom [oops, who says they're wise, but if they're what was given...?]
Like a sage, a man of vision
Though he knows he’s really nothing [he's not nothing though, but what he is, will he say that?]
But the brief elaboration of a tube
I want to make him certain
That he doesn’t have a burden
That he doesn’t need a vision
That he only has permission
To do my instant bidding
Which is to SAY what I have told him
To repeat
Come to this with Van de Wetering's After Zen for insight. Roshi is now 104 so he is a respectable being. Cohen in this 45 minute film is in good condition also, but he doesn't know that the aluminum in Mr. Baldy groundwater is 61,000ppb The greatest curse comes as a blessing because when it comes it is irresistible and deadly. See "Going Home in Old Ideas
But he does say what I tell him
Even though it isn’t welcome
He just doesn’t have the freedom
To refuse [he can refuse, but who would who has sought it all of life, to be awakened in the night!]
He will speak these words of wisdom [oops, who says they're wise, but if they're what was given...?]
Like a sage, a man of vision
Though he knows he’s really nothing [he's not nothing though, but what he is, will he say that?]
But the brief elaboration of a tube
I want to make him certain
That he doesn’t have a burden
That he doesn’t need a vision
That he only has permission
To do my instant bidding
Which is to SAY what I have told him
To repeat
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Christopher Hitchens
We have these two brothers, Peter the Christian and Christopher the Ragin, not to know exactly how to state his eminent wit.
Contrarian View: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11168
Peter Hitchens: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255983/How-I-God-peace-atheist-brother-PETER-HITCHENS-traces-journey-Christianity.html
Christopher: Hitch 22
Peter: Rage Against God
Contrarian View: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11168
Peter Hitchens: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255983/How-I-God-peace-atheist-brother-PETER-HITCHENS-traces-journey-Christianity.html
Christopher: Hitch 22
Peter: Rage Against God
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Charles Olson
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| Olson in Polis |
Charles Olson Polis is This. Part 1. 2-6 on sidebar
Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 (Withheld)
Here are Letter 27 (Withheld) and The Librarian read again with a little context, courtesy of USA poetry.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Robert Bly
Robert Bly Cortland Interview
Paula Gordon Show
The All-Too Familiar Arc Of Robert Bly
Robert Bly Talks With Michael Ventura
Bly: When something goes wrong in a marriage, and it all comes to grief, it’s our habit to think, It’s my fault. But from the point of view of an older culture, each of us has had many past lives, and the suffering that you and your spouse just went through is not coming from your connection to each other. It’s coming from those past lives the albatross began flying a thousand years ago. The wife or husband who landed at the altar with you began flying a thousand years ago.
[This is an elaborate way of saying the religion of reincarnation is the source of my pride. Reincarnation ruined my marriage!]
Paula Gordon Show
The All-Too Familiar Arc Of Robert Bly
Robert Bly Talks With Michael Ventura
Bly: When something goes wrong in a marriage, and it all comes to grief, it’s our habit to think, It’s my fault. But from the point of view of an older culture, each of us has had many past lives, and the suffering that you and your spouse just went through is not coming from your connection to each other. It’s coming from those past lives the albatross began flying a thousand years ago. The wife or husband who landed at the altar with you began flying a thousand years ago.
[This is an elaborate way of saying the religion of reincarnation is the source of my pride. Reincarnation ruined my marriage!]
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