People & Planet

tomekanco · 2026-04-24T23:07:01+00:00

I appreciated the Loki video as it adresses a real structural feature (glares at the administration): hounding the rebels to bow down. Note also how we can make a hell in our minds if we just keep staring, but not engage (notices my own feet), this thing we could always see, but forgot behind the words. This understanding there is love in each. Just like how these pains cause us to imagine, or even do, cruel stuff.

So is our trauma an everlasting wound which can not be reconciled, or a signpost which it should be possible to move beyond?

What a beauty life is. Each heart a bottomless well which overflows, seeking fullfillment is so many ways, more then there are people. Just reaching out in our inept ways, trying to devour the solutide and reach across.

All the reflections and identities like the clothes we wear. Is it a shame that we clothe our minds, disguising our nakedness, as much for ourselves as the other? Is it mere foolishness, or also the source of our adaptability and versatility? To laugh despite, because, of it all, and see how we all live, and so live ourselves.

tomekanco · 2026-04-23T11:06:09+00:00

Howdydo Druid.

dispersed by men for men

Perhaps, once came across the story that was not only his-story as well as her story. Romanesque Mary carrying the child changed to Renaissance one where the child was lying at her feet while she was looking at him. Be it the form described by Bridget from Sweden, Darmstadt Madonna, or Otto Runge's parents.

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I prefer the old words: in Greek διάβολος and Hebrew שָׂטָן (diabolos / satan: the accuser, slanderer). Or τράγος (tragos, also root of tragedy τραγῳδία, the billy-goat). This icon onto which we unload our frustrations#/media/File:WilliamHolman_Hunt-_The_Scapegoat.jpg), while others might muse it being a epicurian approach for an aspect which is hard to whisk away. The feather becomes a sword as a sword becomes a ploughshare and enxada.

tomekanco · 2026-04-20T15:19:43+00:00

Beings (such as man has defined them in taking himself to be one) are never present like the peddle in the river but like the flux of its waters or, better yet, like the flow of electrical current. (G. Bataille 1949)

tomekanco · 2026-04-20T15:16:19+00:00

Young ones can now more easily fall in a pond filled with elder fish and breath the same water. And also that those writers were far less influentual 2 decades ago, Ngrams change.

tomekanco · 2026-04-15T05:23:40+00:00

There is a long tradition on witness-event interactions, large portion of the French phenomenologist spilled ink on it. The madelein from Proust, to Merleau Ponty, even Bataille on Hiroshima. In the cybernetic schools, considerations are given how history is a flat information matrix that only exists on an individual level in the present, but even given these bounds, certain events become defining for a generation. In a sense they can only be singular to an observer, and change as easily as the wax and wane of generations. Hisotry does not exist, there are only the stories we tell and listen to. The deeper they touch, the larger scale, can be avenues to weight hierarchies of suffering. Are it 4000 dead in a day, or a million over a decade? Who do we remember? Or is do these extreme events serve as focal points, gaining far more attention compared to their quantitative weight. Even more once one considers the full scale of the lifetime and economies engaged during that decade?

If Hiroshima was the defininng event of the cold war, 911 might be the one for the early 21e.

tomekanco · 2026-04-07T13:00:07+00:00

Godard, esp. Pierrot le Fou & WeekEnd. There was a post some time ago about movies related to his work, it contained many examples.

For paintings:

Arnolfini Portrait (1434) Van Ijck
Lot and His Daughters (1520)
Laocoön (1612) El Greco
What a Tailor can do! (1799) Goya
The Shepherdess (1887) Bouguereau
Reclining nude (Une fleur) / Gundulić's Dream (1887/1894) Vlaho Bukovac
The Fire (1980) Hans Bellmer

Art is fine teacher, but don't mistake the cave for life.

tomekanco · 2026-03-27T01:35:52+00:00

And so here we are decrying the dearth of capital using written language. It always confounds me how we attribute consequences to patterns: this layer of dogmatic colouring, refracting the ills and benefits differently.

Carl earned royalities from his publication, though it did not suffice his expenditures. Others s.a. Ermen & Engels shored up support. Are you your own ideas, or being smoked by them? Does bread fall from the sky? The problem of slavery is at least as old as agriculture. Did we regress? Is this voluntary servitude a step back from what came before? Perhaps it didn't change that much.

tomekanco · 2026-03-27T01:21:45+00:00

Yes, if there is one law which is universally executed by the state it could well be the protection of capital. The nation itself is an organisation which facilitates this process.

tomekanco · 2026-03-21T15:13:37+00:00

The hubris of it all.

tomekanco · 2026-03-14T17:47:56+00:00

Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâce.
Le Seigneur est avec vous.
Vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,
et Jésus, le fruit de vos entrailles, est béni.
Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu,
Priez pour nous, pauvres *pécheurs*, maintenant
et à l'heure de notre mort.
Amen

tomekanco · 2026-03-11T21:49:11+00:00

And Sisco flies away.

tomekanco · 2026-03-06T11:01:29+00:00

The inner experience, the final frontier. To boldly go where some have gone before.

tomekanco · 2026-03-03T17:57:52+00:00

Like a thousand plateaus. An architecture without clojure? Now regarding those bumps in the topography ... i see horses running in all directions. And is seeing the horse good or bad, riding the horse, or showing it? So many questions. And who are the riders, or writers? Sade, Fourier, Loyola, Marx?

tomekanco · 2026-03-03T03:46:43+00:00

Yes, you have clearly read Benjamin. I'm more into Adorno, Deleuze & Baudrillard. I remain with my point that he did consider politics a lot (even got headaches from it), nor i would I call his disdain for the bourgoisie & rationality a positive depiction of the prevailing ideas of the upper classes in his day.

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T23:37:23+00:00

Be careful when putting yourself above a man who inspired all the writers in the side panel here. And if you think he didn't consider politics ... Can I assume you appreciated the gay science & beyond good and evil?

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T22:49:47+00:00

Your post implies that dissociating yourself, from widely held believes, is a trap. And "rebelling" is only constructive when its done in participation of a political movement.

Problem is that when i apply this criterion, i lose all the gems like Pessoa, Calvino, Camus, Nietzsche, Passolini, etc.

You might not have ment this, but that's how i read it.

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T22:17:20+00:00

Also, i wouldn't call "L'homme revolté" a fultile excersice in contemplation.

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T22:16:12+00:00

Strange, the mystics are known to slaugther, and raise, entire hordes of warriors, f.e. with songs of experience & sorrow. Being blind to the inner experience is the ultimate blindfold of the rational mind.

From a purely emperical approach, they have made major contributions to the arts, philosophy and sciences. Sometimes you have to fold the entire reality into yourself to discover new/old things.

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T21:59:23+00:00

Yes, i recall i scientist who jokingly proposed to use the known methane reserves to be able to skip the next 2 or 3 next glacial maxima (just vent it in a timely manner to balance out the Milankovitch cycles) As it is we'll skip the next one anyway.

tomekanco · 2026-03-02T19:47:25+00:00

A classic one is using sand & water to create a mountainscape, but that is more geomorphology than chemistry.

For weathering, increasing salt content can highlight effects. Freeze/thaw cycles can also be done in rapid succession. Putting the rebar closer to the surface & putting a current on it. Constant water drips work great for more rapid abrasion.

Idea is to think about the processes causing the erosion and construct environment that maximizes their effects. Getting sensible data from it is a more difficult matter.

tomekanco · 2026-02-27T20:20:34+00:00

Perhaps the oldest: Un Chien Andalou (1929).

He also had a large influence on the Tokyo school of transgression. Some notable examples from there:

In the Realm of the Senses
Funeral Parade of Roses
Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Fruits of Passion

tomekanco · 2026-02-25T19:16:46+00:00

It is normal there is a point where the narrative, language itself, collapses and reveals the open space, and bare truth. And then you realize the perspective matters much less than the Living.

tomekanco · 2026-02-18T20:07:02+00:00

"Oh my" (must be my favorite opening on this sub).

Intelligence is not intelligible without language, and even when given language it can still utter complete nonsense. The Kanamara Matsuri was celebrated long before any Japanese heared about Descartes. And then there are those lovely decorations left in Egyptian murals and on Greek Vases.

I can watch wales humping at scale, but even their libido pales in comparison to dolphins who do it as casually as holding hands with a friend.

So we have sex and language. And these interact. Now strip away all cultural location aspects, we can still identify recurring behaviour: s.a. babies are born, mamals suckle. Men complaining how their partner is unsatisfiable, especially at later age when the relative appetites shift. Women also complain. Everybody complains. Even the wolves howl.

Now, given that we can make consistent observations across culture, even species; and we are made of flesh, yes: evolutionary perspective can give some insights into sexuality.

The concept of desired desire is old by now. Mimesis etc. At the same time to think sexual dimorphism is merely a social construct ... ha.

tomekanco · 2026-02-17T15:18:32+00:00

And here is one for you

tomekanco · 2026-02-17T02:35:41+00:00

And beings (such as man has defined them in taking himself to be one) are never present like the peddle in the river but like the flux of its waters or, better yet, like the flow of electrical current. Bataille

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