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July 25th 2025

irony and sincerity simultaneously.  subtle smudges around factual representations.- ethical models, icons. abstract-figurative.

all probable connections, micro and macro. emancipatory ethical knowledge, creating values- constructive art- hope, beauty, kindness.

'Metamodernism the future of theory' by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm 2021

Swifts and Aloevera picture for July. 

advocate of lowtech, (hightech industry and information led to 2 genocides- the total control of matter/body. (compare with  monist mind/body stuff and their interdependent co-arising). in 1940s and 2020s.  

also these days- Tai Chi, Unitarian meditation, propalestine

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1st August 

'every measurement is now known as an alteration, as quantum-scale measurements make clear'  and 'the perspective of any human on the universe (and nonhuman)  is now known to be only one of a vast plenitude of perspectives based on relative position and velocity' (Morton- Hyperobjects 2013 and Barad 2007, and Storm hylosemiotics 2021)

how to unmeasure oneself?  from procedures. measurement is a reduction i venture- the answer is meditation- meditative subculture- as in Sloterdijk 2016.

 

14th August.  dont look back!   finished 'moth tree' gone to the framers.  there are an infinite variety of intricately patterned beautiful colourful little micro and macro moths. many appear in the corridor outside my flat, by my door. the work is of a tiny photo in the middle surrounded by colours from geraniums- comes out regal purple. the subtitle is:- 'look you f.... psychopaths, see what you are missing'.     am going to read Badiou.  as recomended by Eshelman, Raoul.  His performatism cultural theory is still the best. Morton turns out to be a realist christian, on two counts out:- abdicating responsibility.   as Storm says- trying to hang onto the old realisms that have been debunked by postmodernism.  so i am correlationist. i wonder if Eshelman is. i might ask him. hope he replies.    

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28.8.  started reading Badiou.  as i said ages ago- technology and science is based on maths but maths is based on axioms that could be otherwise. so its no good playing with maths and its descendents. need to get real and find the axioms and make up some that will be beneficial. like peace, beauty, love, kindness etc.  

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9.9. my art work is actually implausible i feel. (and there is no natural information). culture is what we are fighting for- (Churchill) miracles needed!

    Parmenides/presocratics to Badiou correlationism.  whereas Meillassoux:- the necessity of a principle of reality beyond.  what?  a principle? whose? gods?  what about the lessons learnt from postmodernism (Storm) and that god is a very bad idea.

correlationism-the impossibility of directly accessing thinking and being but only the correlation between. thinking is embodied. yesterday i sang for joy of beauty somewhere near stanage edge and my best thoughts occurred after my heart pounding as i climbed a ridiculous hill, all that circulation, (sure there is a pharmaceutical to be bought instead...) 

Badiou- the four corners of philosopy:- art, science, politics and love. politics is design as this is democratic. art is value of beauty. science is pragmatic knowledges. love is pragmatics of ethics.  there is the possibility of truth procedures within these.