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Hauntology : The 20th C. was a mistake.
Perhaps the line “The 20th C. was a mistake” is a bit inflammatory as there were some very good things to come out of the century (progress for civil rights, a change in attitudes towards colonization, medical breakthroughs, etc.). The ways in which our societies in the West function though seem to have taken…
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Hauntology : Sapphire and Steel and the objects of our past.
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher begins with a passage about a British sci-fi television programme called Sapphire and Steel that was shown on ITV from 1979 to 1982. The premise of the series is that there are two characters, Sapphire and Steel, who are sent to fix problems with time breaking down.…
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Flânerie meditation.
The sprawl of Eastern Montana. When I was a teenager, I was introduced to the concept of mediation. I would attend weekly meditation meetings at a local Buddhist dharma center. This was in Eastern Montana in an old large home that had once belonged to a local furniture dealer when things like furniture were still…
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Hauntology : an introduction to Ghosts of my Life.
Liverpool. When I arrived in Liverpool, the YouTube algorithm decided to introduce me to the concept of Hauntology. Hauntology comes from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his book The Specters of Marx from 1993. A quick definition being : “Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology) is a range of ideas referring to the…
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Time isn't linear – Air conditioning.
When I was studying French literature, I took a course on literature from the Antilles. One of the literary devices that we were studying was that the people of the Antilles don’t always think of time in a linear line, but as a web of causes and effects that blend together. One of the…
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Details : God is in the details.
“God is in the details.” The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. (wikipedia) This was something that was said by my first art history prof in university. She was using it to explain the high level of detail used in a Christian painting we were looking at. Or perhaps it was that sculpture The Ecstasy of…
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New Birth.
Hey. C’est moi. It has been a few years. Since I last discussed into the void here I attended grad school for architecture at the University of Washington, finished the Master’s program by the skin of my teeth, graduated into a global pandemic (I would not recommend this), gave away most of my worldly possessions,…
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Down and Out in Seattle. – The Boarding House.
The Boarding House. My latest stint in alternative housing structures is a communal house run by a rental company. I have named it “The Boarding House.” The house was built in 1919 in what appears to have been a Craftsman style with four bedrooms and one bath at 2,660 square feet. When it was purchased…
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Down and Out in Seattle. – The Reserve at Seatac (part deux)
The Reserve at SeaTac job has been keeping me on the past few weeks. I have lost Don, who just never showed up one day, and then gained and lost a Vaughn. Now I’m working alone as a TLC laborer at this location. The pool room exposed. For a couple of days, my cleaning was…
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Down and Out in Seattle. – The Reserve at SeaTac
My latest job that I have been sent on is to work an Exxel job called the Reserve at SeaTac. I already worked out here once before about a month ago. I like working Exell jobs for the fact that safety actually seems to matter to them and that I am not going to be…
High Contrast Grey. 