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《 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?“

text | poetry

<< Qualiscumque I>>

Scorned by the Ciceros of the day
neophiles here posit a square
novi moves novels and navels swim free

one might assume curvatures but no,
none obvious juxtapositions
none such will be sensualised

doctrine, dogma, deus ex machina
in accordance with the powers of syntax
meter and what not other: square

what is avant-garde but the phalanx
prodding power cracking
the ribs crossless to bare

dude, its but stringing of words
upsetting the mighty who entered a read
self-indulgent allusions to movements:

be square

                          —animasuri’24
text | poetry, The field of AI

<< Flowers and Rocks >>

beaten drums
beaten competition
beaten child
out of future

beaten models
beaten builds
beaten students
down the street

beaten brainpower
beaten bees
beaten path
swept aside

“and be a simple
kinda man
be somethin’
you love n understand”

b’tween your beats
simply b’tween d’ drops
learn ‘bout somethin’ you
you don’t understand

b’tween your beats
simply b’tween d’ drops
repeat somethin’ you
you don’t understand

        —animasuri’24
text | poetry, text | wondering

<< Kindness >>

“Kindness is the transparent flow of energy between two beings. It is not given. It is not received.

Kindness simply is. The creative in a relational space.

And we should be open to this, for where kindness is, there is also joy… in all its fullness, smiling and laughing with us.

Kindness needs no explanation or auditability. There is no tension in kindness itself, only harmony.

Kindness is the proverbial Santa, it is the real bringing joy and compassion in its wake.

By allowing ourselves reflective access to our physical, emotional, intellectual and imaginative self we augment our senses with a powerful microscope of transparency.

Kindness brings joy toward us and others in our moment of escapism we have for life as an evolving complex paradoxical diverse and relational process.”

--animasuri'23

Thank you Evelien for the years of shared roaming a space of online kindness and for having mapped the above words with your touching and powerfully visual artwork. Yes, and for Bringing Out the Best in People.

For the reading passengers:

Follow Ms. Verschroeven on LinkedIn for her (educational, anthropological and many more) insights. For Evelien’s professional, authored and artistic work, visit and reach out to Ms. Verschroeven via:

https://evelienverschroeven.be/

https://medium.com/@evelien.verschroeven/bobip-bringing-out-the-best-in-people-a654b802c886

https://evelienverschroeventheartist.my.canva.site/

https://beeld.be/nl/kunstenaars/evelien-verschroeven

https://www.instagram.com/evelien_verschroeven/

text | poetry, The field of AI

<< Type Writer Fauna >>

Put a snake at a type writer
You’ll eventually read something
that stings

Put a horse at a type writer
You wait and see from
canter and gallops winnings appear

Put a monkey at a type writer
You suddenly have to justify
Shakespeare

Put yourself at a type writer
you become a silence monkey-horse
slithering well-formed minotaurs

among words with sweat, flow
as pearls for noses toil
against the forest’s floor

—animasuri’24

text | poetry

<< may May, may Flower >>

Here’s the villain
there’s the victim

and who am I
for casting them?

I’m a villein
tenant subject

to the force
for land, horse, rotten

and a Danish with coffee
on the pantry’s floor

crumbs for
the cleaning crew of three

dare I write ‘lady’
to clean up after hours

or shuffle it under
the water dispenser

as if a legionella leaf
of a wintering tree

infested with legionnaires disease
Tree, water, three: who cares

or so I imagine after holidays
weekends, personal days, or vacation

or economic layoffs
and boardroom affairs

we cast a role
cast a cast, cast off

for castles, king
for sand, and land

as workers work at
rollin’ the sea with grains

We’re the victimized
villain’d villein

victory reversed
three downward folded

fingers as cursed
crumbs for thirst

—animasuri’24

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Trigger

Marsan, E. (2024, April 16, 05:06 local time). IN: Stephen Sackur, S. BBC News World Service . HARDtalk. Eddie Marsan: Do the arts neglect working-class people? Retrieved on 16 April 2024 from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5szc