Short and sinister like one of Edward Gorey’s abecedariums, infamous freethinker and Islamic Scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson presents in Abecedarium a poetic, anarchic, and occult meditation on the original Egyptian-Semitic meanings and magics behind each of the symbols that eventually became the English alphabet. Deeply researched but thankfully void of any academic skulduggery, Wilson’s Abecedarium [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
As a counterpoint to my earlier post’s suggestion that authors can mythically enter into the stories they tell , I thought it necessary to point out that a similar thing happens during the act of reading a story, that in fact reading is, by the nature of the imagination, always participatory. This point is probably [...]
I am currently on the process of writing a novel that, despite many writers’ hesitencies to use the form, is told as a series of journal entries. Perhaps I’ve always loved the flow of Sartre’s “Nausea,” where you can see the psyhological build up of the character in time, but I also feel journals can [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
At its earliest recorded usage in the late 16th Century, the word “awesome” implied an experience that filled one with a profoundly reverential or dread-filled awe. The word “awe” itself comes from the Old Norse agi, meaning terror, and found its common sense of dread mixed with veneration when applied to the Old Testament God, [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Since the other week when I wrote that essay on doppelgängers and the doubles of ourselves created by our self-representations it seems that issue has been finding greater traction on the Internet. As Klint Finley from Technoccult points out, there has apparently been much heated discussion on various occult forums about what constitutes a “hypersigil.” [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallises out of the Future Trees Communicate with Aspirin-like Chemical Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys David Foster Wallace’s Toy Cement Mixer “Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
“I think we should put some mountains here. Otherwise, what are all the characters going to fall off of?” -Laurie Anderson As a storyteller and theorist on the role that narratives play in our lives, I am concerned with how we produce stories, particularly in our contemporary, hyper-mediated age. We are exposed to narratives everywhere [...]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Recently I have become more involved with sending text messages as a useful and quick form of communication. Usually I prefer face to face communications, or if that is not possible, then long monologuous letters (in an attempt to keep alive that dying art form). I absolutely loathe the telephone, mainly because it gives the [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
Saving Middle-Earth: The Power of Recording Reality in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Every quest has a goal, but sometimes these goals contain subtler, more far-reaching effects than their stated purpose. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the explicit goal is to save the world of Middle-Earth from the evil of Sauron by [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
As a writer, or more generally an artist, something that has become increasingly more important to me is the ability, desire, or perhaps necessity to express the inexpressible, to represent in some form those situations, characters, feelings, or ideas that either defy representation, or are shades of experience that others have not found ways of [...]
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged art, belief, critical theory, hermeneutics, inspiration, Joyce, literature, personal narrative, psychogeography, religion, techniques, Ultimate Realism
|
