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Inanna

As above, so below, an abyss is resting

With a person, cut in thousand pieces

Their nervous system in flames, letting it burn

Flames that shoot light even for those who are blind

The spinal chord does its job to bind, to never let go

Of the only shimmer of hope, that pain can give

 

As above, so below, knives filing

A spine, cut in pieces

To the point of freedom, drained

Liquids and flows, separated from their membranes

Liberates the nerves that never had the chance to perceive

The only shimmer of life, in Gazir

 

Oh, you thousandfold multitude

Your univocal voice can’t make itself to be found

Among all threads that tangle and rustle, that

Screw themselves to screams

To the point that it’s no longer possible

To tell the perceptions apart

 

But from a light bearing node, a woman walks

Turning darkness to light, as if to perceive

Her arms and legs of prosthesis

Her hair color of blood’s iron

And worm eaten wings that brace themselves

She shows mankind’s bodies

Nerve threads with hardened myelin

Like lichens in coagulated blood

Stretching without any plummet

And others, as if carved and folded

Origami in order to bloom

Twisted like roses and opened like a corpse flower

Clouds of dust, as the mushrooms’ sweet pollen

 

Oh you thousandfold Inanna

We now hear your lonely voice

All this

Was me all along

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Philosophy Screens and Images

Intro to Screens and Images

For a long time now I have been wanting to write a text on two concepts: screens and images. We all live in a time where photography, television and computers have become part of our daily communication. It has reached a point where, as Guy Debord puts it: “Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” (Society of the Spectacle). Our daily life is ordered around these representations; our lives are mediated through screens and images and in order to find a line of flight, I believe we need a much more profound understanding of these social machines. What I want to do in this series of plateaus is to expand on the concepts presented by the situationists, but through the lens of schizoanalysis and my own stupidity. As of now, I only have a vague image of where I am heading with this project.