Monthly Archives: June 2024

text | poetry, visual | poem

<< Tacit Toner >>

In deed we do
undoubtably undoubtedly
indubitably: it is what was done

in dubiousness, a subdued tautology
an act kept dark, its whisper muffled
any accompaniment of talk: muted

transparency is demanded of intelligence
not of anything else:
so act, don’t think

of signals related, if process debated across
media, time, space:
information as dark matter

distracting attention to light, by light
by glitter, by color, by bling, by might
cushioning back alley dealings: egos only

corridor connections
and bathroom warnings
suggesting: wash off guilt

redistribution of gains constraining chains
to access, to cognition related, to thought automated
presumed delegated: pure self

act managed, while managing acts
mixed into the toxic toner
of the peaceful printing press: tacit mess

We have agency, no nonsense
look here, go there, do that:
we have

we have: our zippers up.

—animasuri’24

text | poetry, visual | poem

<< The Post-Sprung Socialite >>

Because because is such a quaint word
by reason of interest being
but a table cloth
for dinners with friends at philosophy circles

Hence book fixations in price and binding
tickle nostrils of leather, stitching,
green cloth and paper glue
training trusted upon by memories draining

There lies a book of laughter on mid-summer
as one’s waking is an other’s night’s dream of Walcott
and poetic note taking
of said non-seasons and the likes

gently hearing that chain-link fence
as a museum ornament around the gathering
of being on the fence, fencing off advances,
fancy a drink in polite company

Circles drain
the likes of seasoned polite company
into frantically composed collecting
points of common interest, just because

just by reason books are fixed until mended.

                           —animasuri’24

Triggers

Dr.WSA. (2024, June 21). fyi because you seemed to be … online: email. And, thank you.

M.C. (2024, June 21). The price isn’t right. Fixing books’ prices, Michael Rosen’s illustrators, J. R. Ackerley’s prize. Online: Times Literary Supplement (TLS). https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/nb/the-price-isnt-right/ 

text | poetry, text | wondering

<< Reify >>

They laid on the soiled grass,
stultified, neglected
as stunted models abstracted

as an extension tooled for convention
leaking redness for intoxicating puppies
across lowlands and in others’ theater of war

their maker of machines feeds bodies
to pose, to possess,
to position, to point

triggering outside the trenches
tending to tensions
in the minds of others

they laid on the grass
perverted in narratives
of misplaced loyalties to the greed

of the leather-seated voyeur
playing off-table top
life-sized mappings of life as 1:1 off’d games

life is small in their minds
their mind practices as meaningful,
their day-to-day actions blasted as grand

that others undertake;
these do not consist of,
and rather appropriate:

doing, talking, thinking,
feeling, loving, blinking
belonging delegated.

bodies, minds, emotions
social relations: draped and laid
on soiled grass to be

enlightened reified.

–animasuri’24

Some Triggers

Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford University Press. page 76

Wenger. E. (1998:56). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

text | poetry

<< The Bulk of Universe >>

Dark matter:
as manifestation
of otherness

in infinite iteration
on sameness
we can not grasp

it matters:
that tangible intangible
fictionalized as horror

and a clownesque nightmare
of transience
in an immaterial world

distracted by the minuscule
we can see
we can touch

we can measure
we can much
aided by crepuscule

of the civilized
here, now, you, me
even in its darkest hour

matters most

                        —animasuri’24

a trigger

Jones, M. (2013). Untangling Sociomateriality. Ch 9. IN: Carlile, P. R., et al.(eds).(2013). How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts, and Materiality in Organization Studies Online: Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671533.003.0009

Uncategorized

《 idealisms 》

We create jungles
we instill the wild
poison ivy, cactuses ‘n’ cacti.
Child!

we cut down trees
we mow the lawn
it’s a dawn of steel and wires
it’s position and image for hire

when sofas and desk chairs
as softness of comfort
compound on relax:
have you had a run since you turned thirty one?

hiding from claw and teeth’s life’s a breeze
where masteries bring minds of pretended peace
and luxurious anxieties
brittles the new ease

lightness, lightness, brightness
smile, teeth whiteness,
comfy conductors, prescriptions
conscription as scriptures of be

transparency and clarity
ease, simplicity, ease
keep it dumb or is it numb or is it under the thumb?
who’s to say, who’s to see!

smile for cameras, here and there, or don’t
fine-tune exposures and actions none-done
life looks like a magazine, factual and undone
There is chocolate melted on projections

life’s idealisms
are realisms for some
are stoic triggers

and conservatisms to come.

                  —-animasuri’24 
                  Belgium and EU elections
text | wondering, The field of AI

<< I Shot Neutrality, but I did not Shoot>>

From the perspective of states or entities that could be acted upon, the potential to act is inherently non-neutral. Herein the relational in agency seems affecting.

The capacity to take actions that might alter other states introduces a dynamic that moves away from neutrality. Thus, entities with agency are viewed as having the potential to influence or change other states, making them inherently less neutral than entities that lack agency and, therefore, lack the potential to effect change.

Does this highlight that while the abstract concept of agency might initially appear neutral, its implications and the perspectives of those potentially affected by agency reveal its non-neutral nature?

If entering an awareness of being set in an acceleratingly expanding universe, or a multitude thereof, exposes one then the limitations of this thinking?

--animasuri'24

Triggers

Scoles, S. (2023, August 29). Will the Universe Ever Stop Expanding? Scientists debate what the future of the cosmos looks like and whether space will ever stop getting bigger and bigger. Online: Scientific American, Springer Nature. Retrieved on 6 June 2024 from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding1/

Thrift, E. (2014). Agency. IN: Teo, T. (Ed.). (2014). Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. New York, NY, USA: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7 page 62 on “Agency” and page 67 on “Is Agency Moral?“