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"aPrayer: memorial service for microorganisms
and artificial cells and lives"

"More than 90% of universities and biomedical research institutions in Japan hold memorial services for experimental animals or experimental organisms every year. "

"But it is more important for us that biologically non-living materials or tools are also to be commemorated. Monuments for pens, brushes, needles and dolls are often founded, and memorial services are regularly held. "

https://hideo-iwasaki.com/aprayer

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"aPrayer: memorial service for microorganisms
and artificial cells and lives"

"More than 90% of universities and biomedical research institutions in Japan hold memorial services for experimental animals or experimental organisms every year. "

"But it is more important for us that biologically non-living materials or tools are also to be commemorated. Monuments for pens, brushes, needles and dolls are often founded, and memorial services are regularly held. "

https://hideo-iwasaki.com/aprayer

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For all you Venus watchers out there, a good overview of its (Northern hemisphere) movements over the next few months: https://www. space.com/here-she-comes-venus-is-back

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For all you Venus watchers out there, a good overview of its (Northern hemisphere) movements over the next few months: https://www. space.com/here-she-comes-venus-is-back

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Other Jogja experiences

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Other Jogja experiences

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Some impressions of Yogyakarta, so far

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Some impressions of Yogyakarta, so far

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I'm reminded by JG Ballard's short story about Reagan, and how the TV news was constantly streaming his vital signs as he declined, while in the background a nuclear war happened between the US and the Soviet Union started and ended without anyone noticing--because they were so transfixed to the stream of numbers on their screens. A premonition, perhaps.

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I'm reminded by JG Ballard's short story about Reagan, and how the TV news was constantly streaming his vital signs as he declined, while in the background a nuclear war happened between the US and the Soviet Union started and ended without anyone noticing--because they were so transfixed to the stream of numbers on their screens. A premonition, perhaps.

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We don't have a word (yet) for the care we give to our non-human, non-biological entities, and the concern we have for them when they're not functioning well. I have an off-grid installation that is not working properly, and unfortunately I am halfway around the world for a month and I can't do anything to assist them. I just have to look at the vital stats being streamed online and hope that they can survive well enough until I return. (In this case there isn't really anything someone else can do to help, given the technical sophistication of the install.) I guess this is also connected to how we feel about watching tragedies befall other humans online, in other parts of the world, and not having much agency to intervene. Always connected data--of numbers, of images, of sounds--is not something we have learned how to process as a species yet.

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We don't have a word (yet) for the care we give to our non-human, non-biological entities, and the concern we have for them when they're not functioning well. I have an off-grid installation that is not working properly, and unfortunately I am halfway around the world for a month and I can't do anything to assist them. I just have to look at the vital stats being streamed online and hope that they can survive well enough until I return. (In this case there isn't really anything someone else can do to help, given the technical sophistication of the install.) I guess this is also connected to how we feel about watching tragedies befall other humans online, in other parts of the world, and not having much agency to intervene. Always connected data--of numbers, of images, of sounds--is not something we have learned how to process as a species yet.

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Just heard a live performance of this last night at the Echonance Festival...just incredible sonorities with the harmonics and the drone: https://www. youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZpmsVgjCDuw . Also on the program was Ellen Arkbro's Three for brass trio whose just intonation tuning almost had me crying it so affected my body. I'd listened to Arkbro's piece numerous times from a recording but to hear the brass instruments make the air vibrate within the space...sublime.

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Just heard a live performance of this last night at the Echonance Festival...just incredible sonorities with the harmonics and the drone: https://www. youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZpmsVgjCDuw . Also on the program was Ellen Arkbro's Three for brass trio whose just intonation tuning almost had me crying it so affected my body. I'd listened to Arkbro's piece numerous times from a recording but to hear the brass instruments make the air vibrate within the space...sublime.

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And I have to give credit where credit is due. I only learned about this by finding a discussion of Bellmer and transness in this thesis by artist Levi Taylor Booker: https://ida.mtholyoke.edu/bitstream/ha ndle/10166/5971/Flesh%20and%20Mud-%20Full%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1

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And I have to give credit where credit is due. I only learned about this by finding a discussion of Bellmer and transness in this thesis by artist Levi Taylor Booker: https://ida.mtholyoke.edu/bitstream/ha ndle/10166/5971/Flesh%20and%20Mud-%20Full%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1

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I mean, I say this without condoning all of Bellmer's behavior, but the fact that all of this is behind Bellmer's work does explain a lot.

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I mean, I say this without condoning all of Bellmer's behavior, but the fact that all of this is behind Bellmer's work does explain a lot.

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Why did no-one tell me that Hans Bellmer was (likely) trans? Okay, maybe the writer of this book can dismiss Bellmer's behavior as a "prank", but let me tell you that this is prime trans-girl egg behavior here. (quote from Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer by Therese Lichtenstein)

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Why did no-one tell me that Hans Bellmer was (likely) trans? Okay, maybe the writer of this book can dismiss Bellmer's behavior as a "prank", but let me tell you that this is prime trans-girl egg behavior here. (quote from Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer by Therese Lichtenstein)

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Loving this short film about Harry Partch just nonchalantly living and playing his instruments *in his home*: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfo Q

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Loving this short film about Harry Partch just nonchalantly living and playing his instruments *in his home*: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfo Q

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Current reading (among many, many others), part of new research, and a first posting here in years. I was just longing for RSS readers this morning (and posts to fill those feeds) to allow for proper curation on my terms. Dropping out online isn't the answer, nor is the social media purgatory we have now. As I teach students who are further and further away from me in age, I yearn to convey something of the (indeed problematic) utopianism of the 1990s and early 2000s, but don't know how to. I wonder what calamity might need to take place to get us to another point like that...or put in another way, how to _create_ such a moment without the need for calamities.

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Current reading (among many, many others), part of new research, and a first posting here in years. I was just longing for RSS readers this morning (and posts to fill those feeds) to allow for proper curation on my terms. Dropping out online isn't the answer, nor is the social media purgatory we have now. As I teach students who are further and further away from me in age, I yearn to convey something of the (indeed problematic) utopianism of the 1990s and early 2000s, but don't know how to. I wonder what calamity might need to take place to get us to another point like that...or put in another way, how to _create_ such a moment without the need for calamities.

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Attempting something oldnew to get me away from glowing screens.

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Attempting something oldnew to get me away from glowing screens.

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Typewriter with paper and words typed on it.

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I should also say that this is available for reading online FOR FREE from the Manifold project website: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/how-noise-matters-to-finance #noisefinance

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I should also say that this is available for reading online FOR FREE from the Manifold project website: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/how-noise-matters-to-finance #noisefinance

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Thinking of scientology as hyperstition...and of course Mark Fisher came up with this before I did: https://k-punk.org/why-burroughs-is-a-cold-rationalist/

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Thinking of scientology as hyperstition...and of course Mark Fisher came up with this before I did: https://k-punk.org/why-burroughs-is-a-cold-rationalist/

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And then you discover that Burroughs published a collection of his writings on Scientology...oh boy, this rabbit hole runs deep.

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And then you discover that Burroughs published a collection of his writings on Scientology...oh boy, this rabbit hole runs deep.

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You know it's an interesting research day when you go from Claude Shannon to JR Pierce to L Ron Hubbard to demons to Xenu, and there is indeed a throughline to all of this.

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You know it's an interesting research day when you go from Claude Shannon to JR Pierce to L Ron Hubbard to demons to Xenu, and there is indeed a throughline to all of this.

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So glad to have this in this name. Thanks to University of Minnesota Press for making things so easy.

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So glad to have this in this name. Thanks to University of Minnesota Press for making things so easy.

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Photo of How Noise Matters to Finance book my N Adriana Knouf

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I feel like having both Karen Barad and Sylvia Wynter on my near-term reading list says something significant about my current interests and wanderings.

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I feel like having both Karen Barad and Sylvia Wynter on my near-term reading list says something significant about my current interests and wanderings.

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Getting some settings dialed in on my new 3D printer, going to be making custom PLA printed cassette tape loops in the near future. But first, grading 🤦‍♂️

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Getting some settings dialed in on my new 3D printer, going to be making custom PLA printed cassette tape loops in the near future. But first, grading 🤦‍♂️