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 It is also the paths not taken that have led here. defined by absence, loss and missed opportunity as much as joy, wonder and chance. The Red Queen Effect. It is also the paths not taken that have led here. defined by absence, loss and missed opportunity as much as joy, wonder and chance. The Red Queen Effect.
  
-quiet descends with the rain, city becomes background radiation and the telescopes are in shadow. the entanglement, the mesh, indra's net, the reenchantment, etc. as reaction to neo-reaction, a reclaiming and refiguring of the enlightenment to longer timescales, the 'irational' and 'unknowable'. features of expansion, acceleration, wiht limiting, damping factors of accretion, agglomeration, synthesis, deceleration, exploring limits, +quiet descends with the rain, city becomes background radiation and the telescopes are in shadow. the entanglement, the mesh, indra's net, the reenchantment, etc. as reaction to neo-reaction, a reclaiming and refiguring of the enlightenment to longer timescales, the 'irrational' and 'unknowable'. features of expansion, acceleration, with limiting, damping factors of accretion, agglomeration, synthesis, deceleration, exploring limits, 
  
 fleeting attention, surface attention and deep attention. fleeting attention, surface attention and deep attention.
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 concerning attention, gradual drift to more diffuse, more easily 'distracted'. contrast focus and flow. flow of directed focus, attention fixed in a well defined context, absorbing, challenging, etc. flow of free-association or subsequent engagement. focus-flow enhanced by low dose stimulants, mostly coffee, sub-euphoric amphetamines, nicotine etc. association-flow enhanced by alcohol, opiates, etc. maintaining a middle ground, stretching, contracting. the various compensations (compensatory behaviours, advantages, etc) for lack of 'willpower' and ability to focus attention at will. close study of distraction, attention and drift. problems and psychic defences re. being immersed in an environment which is based on extracting capital from distraction. concerning attention, gradual drift to more diffuse, more easily 'distracted'. contrast focus and flow. flow of directed focus, attention fixed in a well defined context, absorbing, challenging, etc. flow of free-association or subsequent engagement. focus-flow enhanced by low dose stimulants, mostly coffee, sub-euphoric amphetamines, nicotine etc. association-flow enhanced by alcohol, opiates, etc. maintaining a middle ground, stretching, contracting. the various compensations (compensatory behaviours, advantages, etc) for lack of 'willpower' and ability to focus attention at will. close study of distraction, attention and drift. problems and psychic defences re. being immersed in an environment which is based on extracting capital from distraction.
  
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-Japan; Kenrokuen Garden, Kaga Onsen, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Yokota, owls, abandoneddesolate roads, after images of landslides, autumn leaves, sushi, soba, kaiseki, whisky, second disolve into a Murikami story.+Japan; Kenrokuen Garden, Kaga Onsen, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Yokota, owls, abandoned desolate roads, after images of landslides, autumn leaves, sushi, soba, kaiseki, whisky, second dissolve into a Murakami story.
  
 then back in brussels, post japan then back in brussels, post japan
  
-peculiar afterimages, opportunities, compression, aesthetic closeness, spare sparsity, density. (etc) no clean sense of direction, but a general suggestion that we'd like to spend more time in japan. find ways to make it possilbe. a more determined sense that it's time to leave brussels, the belgian marshlands, for other edge habitats. finding paths that take us closer to 'interesting' activity and where our activities are more appreciated/relevant.+peculiar afterimages, opportunities, compression, aesthetic closeness, spare sparsity, density. (etc) no clean sense of direction, but a general suggestion that we'd like to spend more time in japan. find ways to make it possible. a more determined sense that it's time to leave brussels, the belgian marshlands, for other edge habitats. finding paths that take us closer to 'interesting' activity and where our activities are more appreciated/relevant.
  
 ways to find perspective in extinction and duration. self & species & life emergent over shared timescales and absent timescales. a flicker at the end of history, a blink between epochs, yet the only time one has. aesthetic/ethical layering. ways to find perspective in extinction and duration. self & species & life emergent over shared timescales and absent timescales. a flicker at the end of history, a blink between epochs, yet the only time one has. aesthetic/ethical layering.
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 +"Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis."
  
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 +====reading notes (to incorporate)====
 +  * January; [[The Dark Forest]], Cixin Liu. [[Tram 83]], Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Marcus Aurelius' [[meditations_aurelius|Meditations]]. [[Inventing the Future]], Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Nothing: Three Inquiries into Buddhism, Boon, Cazdyn & Morton.
 +  * February; [[lagoon_nnedi_okorafor|Lagoon]], Nnedi Okorafor.
 +  * March; Dhalgren (abandonded). [[2312_by_kim_stanley_robinson|2312]], Kim Stanley Robinson. This Census Taker, China Miéville. Lontar backissues.
 +  * April; [[Agua Viva]], Clarice Lispector. Photobooks; The Black Rose, Trent Parke. Abstracts, AM Projects. Ký u/́c – Memento, Simone Hoang. Tragovi, Sergej Vutuc.
 +  * May;  J.G.Ballard short stories. [[utopia of rules|The Utopia of Rules]], David Graeber. Trees. Nameless. [[The Mushroom at the End of the World]], Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 
 +  * June; [[http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/|Crystal Nights]], Greg Egan. [[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2014/20141110/commands-f.shtml|She Commands Me and I Obey]], Ann Leckie. 4th edition of 'Soft Machine' WSB.
 +  * July; [[the_left_hand_of_darkness|The Left Hand of Darkness]], Ursula K. Le Guin. Leopardi's [[zibaldone_the_notebooks|Zibaldone]]. [[normal_ellis|Normal]], Warren Ellis.
 +  * September;  [[distraction_sterling|Distraction]], Bruce Sterling. [[yoshimasa_and_the_silver_pavilion|Yoshimasa And The Silver Pavilion]], Donald Keene. [[history_of_japanese_food|History Of Japanese Food]], Naomichi Ishige.
 +  * October; The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin. 
 +  * November; [[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]], Haruki Murakami. Central Station, Lavie Tidhar. [[Hope in the Dark]], Rebecca Solnit. [[Algorithms to Live By]], Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.
 +  * December; [[Staying with the Trouble]], Donna J. Haraway. [[The Terranauts]], T.C. Boyle. (Dream of the Red Chamber/Story of the Stone), Cao Xueqin.
  
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