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a melancholy emblem of parish cruelty
also means you can get experts in to fix the wiring and other odd jobs.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
also means you can get experts in to fix the wiring and other odd jobs.
i find the dates here (1490-1520) fascinating. not because of the lag, but because of how fast it is. to take a (not particularly satisfactory) modern analogue, the BBC launched iPlayer in 2007, and even now studios and distributors are trying to unpick and rationalise their supply chain.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
i find the dates here (1490-1520) fascinating. not because of the lag, but because of how fast it is. to take a (not particularly satisfactory) modern analogue, the BBC launched iPlayer in 2007, and even now studios and distributors are trying to unpick and rationalise their supply chain.
17thC gnorpelgroteske as it was known bears some resemblance to those early messes of pictorial AI output.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
17thC gnorpelgroteske as it was known bears some resemblance to those early messes of pictorial AI output.
credit to @londoncentric.media for recording what must be *the* default response of our time, but so rarely actually captured.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
credit to @londoncentric.media for recording what must be *the* default response of our time, but so rarely actually captured.
this section in the chapter conscience and conscious is a good example. it is extremely lucid on how the mechanics of languages, concepts, actions and perception play upon each other, and the confusions that can arise.
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this section in the chapter conscience and conscious is a good example. it is extremely lucid on how the mechanics of languages, concepts, actions and perception play upon each other, and the confusions that can arise.
bulgarian and georgian wines are v much my jam at the moment.
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
bulgarian and georgian wines are v much my jam at the moment.
one of the things i like about the annales school is their obsession with collecting data also meant they could be honest about when they just didn’t know. more narrative versions of history seem tojust pretend a lot of the time, or bridge or scumble the known and the guessed at (even when likely!)
October 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
one of the things i like about the annales school is their obsession with collecting data also meant they could be honest about when they just didn’t know. more narrative versions of history seem tojust pretend a lot of the time, or bridge or scumble the known and the guessed at (even when likely!)
so, time to do this. or at least it will be once i’ve finished declare by tim powers, who himself might be seen as a bit thomas pynchon-lite (positive). still pynchon has a way of making the synapses fire differently. ludic essentialism.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
so, time to do this. or at least it will be once i’ve finished declare by tim powers, who himself might be seen as a bit thomas pynchon-lite (positive). still pynchon has a way of making the synapses fire differently. ludic essentialism.
and the local “bee bop” bar is playing creedence. what can we make of the times.
September 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
and the local “bee bop” bar is playing creedence. what can we make of the times.
such a great and triumphant album cover. hard not to give a cheer whenever you see it. and a v good album too as it happens.
September 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
such a great and triumphant album cover. hard not to give a cheer whenever you see it. and a v good album too as it happens.
mate.
(ad spotted at amsterdam centraal)
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September 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
mate.
(ad spotted at amsterdam centraal)
(ad spotted at amsterdam centraal)
on the pleins of waterloo
September 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
on the pleins of waterloo
excitingly i got LOST on dartmoor in a thick fog. i realise it doesn’t look that thick here, but you could barely see your hand in front of your face and i remember being alarmed by some v dismal sounds before rather doleful pony emerged from the mist and crossed my path.
September 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
excitingly i got LOST on dartmoor in a thick fog. i realise it doesn’t look that thick here, but you could barely see your hand in front of your face and i remember being alarmed by some v dismal sounds before rather doleful pony emerged from the mist and crossed my path.
cats on the roof alert
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
cats on the roof alert
most idealistically i see it as a place to put things that corresponds to Barthes’ fantasy of communities that allow “idiorrhythmy” - the solitude of being able to respond to a thing put in a place and not immediately requiring response. kate briggs describes it well in her book This Little Art
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Perhaps we'd come up against this paradox: an unexpected between the contemporary and the untimely17—like the enco between Marx and Mallarmé, Mallarmé and Freud around the
ble of time. 18
SIDENOTE IN MARGIN: The Twilight of the Idols, p. 64
MY FANTASY: IDIORRHYTHMY
A fantasy (at any rate, what I call a fantasy): a resurgence of cer desires, certain images that lurk within you, that want to be id fied by you, sometimes your whole life, and often only assume co crete form thanks to a particular word. That word, a key signife, what leads from the fantasy to its investigation. To mine the fanta
through snatches of knowledge = research. The fantasy is thus mine
like an open quarry.
For me, the fantasy wanting to be identified [had] nothing to d with the topic of the last two years (the "Lover's Discourse").1Then it wasn't a matter of mining a fantasy (* Living-Together). It's nota case of Two-People-Living-Together, of a pseudo-conjugal Discours succeeding (by some miracle) the Lover's Discourse.2° [It's] a fantasy of a life, a regime, a lifestyle, diaita, diet. Neither dual nor plural (cor lective). Something like solitude with regular interruptions: the para-dox, the contradiction, the aporia of bringing distances together-the utopia of a socialism of distance (apropos of strong, ungregarious ages such as the Renaissance, Nietzsche speaks of "a pathos of dis-tance").2 (All this is still very imprecise).
Now, it was in the course of a chance reading (Lacarrière, L'Ete grec) that the fantasy encountered the word that would set it to work. On Mount Athos: coenobitic convents + monks both isolated from and in contact with one another within a particular type of structure (I'll describe the features of that structure later
his own rhythm.23
on) = idiorrhythmic clusters. Where each subject lives according to
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August 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
most idealistically i see it as a place to put things that corresponds to Barthes’ fantasy of communities that allow “idiorrhythmy” - the solitude of being able to respond to a thing put in a place and not immediately requiring response. kate briggs describes it well in her book This Little Art
i knew he was young but didnt realise he was only 33 when he died.
August 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
i knew he was young but didnt realise he was only 33 when he died.
at the leigh bowery exhibition
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
at the leigh bowery exhibition
Following this through now I've got a moment. These answers are actually quite useful and get rather closer to the heart of it I think.
August 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Following this through now I've got a moment. These answers are actually quite useful and get rather closer to the heart of it I think.
its own analysis here. none of the first sets of “reasons” seem valid.
- no you definitely do have precise vocabulary to describe how mechanisms analogous to “attention” work.
- “intuitively” doing a lot of misleading heavy lifting, but may be a proxy for “human sounding”
- ditto “unconsciously”
- no you definitely do have precise vocabulary to describe how mechanisms analogous to “attention” work.
- “intuitively” doing a lot of misleading heavy lifting, but may be a proxy for “human sounding”
- ditto “unconsciously”
August 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
its own analysis here. none of the first sets of “reasons” seem valid.
- no you definitely do have precise vocabulary to describe how mechanisms analogous to “attention” work.
- “intuitively” doing a lot of misleading heavy lifting, but may be a proxy for “human sounding”
- ditto “unconsciously”
- no you definitely do have precise vocabulary to describe how mechanisms analogous to “attention” work.
- “intuitively” doing a lot of misleading heavy lifting, but may be a proxy for “human sounding”
- ditto “unconsciously”
it seems incredibly bad for an LLM (Claude in this case tho i’ve seen examples from ChatGPT) to ascribe something computational to “laziness” or similar. This from when I asked an LLM why it had got a summary of a Swedish article wrong (generally LLMs are v good at extracting an dsummarising info)
August 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
it seems incredibly bad for an LLM (Claude in this case tho i’ve seen examples from ChatGPT) to ascribe something computational to “laziness” or similar. This from when I asked an LLM why it had got a summary of a Swedish article wrong (generally LLMs are v good at extracting an dsummarising info)