a week of institutional critique


Oh my god, I just saw it.
I have no idea what I'm doing here,
.
It
s 
too late now.
In Glass Houses
It's 115 degrees in Atlanta,
like Death Valley with water in the air,
at least,
that's what she said.

You can't stop what's coming.  
The entire west seems on fire,
let's swim in the fountain.

out loudness

Keep it simple stupid.
Fascinated with object oriented ontology, or OOO.  To me right now,  it basically means the realization that people's perceptions are not the center of the universe.  We are only part of the larger ecology (duh, if a tree falls in the woods it makes a sound to all the animals that live in it).
A few names:  Graham Harmon, The Life of Tools

Timothy Morton is a professor of ecology at UC Davis, he coined the term Hyper-objects, which is something so large that it can't be accurately assessed in a single dimension... there are other criteria (see below).  He identifies climate change as one of these "objects".

I realize my invasives project is related to this coin,
as one can not visualize a hyperobject,
only its related effects or parts.

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Pop culture counts, and the population is a hyperobject.

so,

The qualities of a hyperobject are:


  1. Viscous: Hyperobjects adhere to any other object they touch, no matter how hard an object tries to resist. In this way, hyperobjects overrule ironic distance, meaning that the more an object tries to resist a hyperobject, the more glued to the hyperobject it becomes.[64]
  2. Molten: Hyperobjects are so massive that they refute the idea that spacetime is fixed, concrete, and consistent.[65]
  3. Nonlocal: Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space to the extent that their totality cannot be realized in any particular local manifestation. For example, global warming is a hyperobject that impacts meteorological conditions, such as tornado formation. According to Morton, though, objects don't feel global warming, but instead experience tornadoes as they cause damage in specific places. Thus, nonlocality describes the manner in which a hyperobject becomes more substantial than the local manifestations they produce.[66]
  4. Phased: Hyperobjects occupy a higher dimensional space than other entities can normally perceive. Thus, hyperobjects appear to come and go in three-dimensional space, but would appear differently to an observer with a higher multidimensional view.[67]
  5. Interobjective: Hyperobjects are formed by relations between more than one object. Consequently, objects are only able to perceive to the imprint, or "footprint," of a hyperobject upon other objects, revealed as information. For example, global warming is formed by interactions between the Sun, fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide, among other objects. Yet, global warming is made apparent through emissions levels, temperature changes, and ocean levels, making it seem as if global warming is a product of scientific models, rather than an object that predated its own measurement.[68]
 In my work, dear random blog Readers,
I hope to coalesce the body and the landscape; not possesively, but as an embodiment of ecological awareness.  I do wonder about approaching the TOE or Theory of Everything.  How would one address the glue, as opposed to the matter? 


"Nature is not natural and and can not be naturalized"

---Graham Harmon

Susan Tyrell before losing her legs.


http://www.laweekly.com/2000-11-09/news/my-so-called-rotten-life/



T. Lang's Mutha, at the Goat Farm 6/2012

Diptych; Spring 2012

My little brother Charlie, 6 yrs.
My Pops's Pyramid house; aligned to the four directions with
 fruiting peach tree my sister and I planted.

Some unnamed place photo by Matt Lee

Tom in a cave, being good looking photo by Matt Lee
These photos were on a camera that Matt Lee, my partner's caving buddy, left in a cave for two years. Reminds me of Werner Herzog's Cave of Dreams documentary. 

Privet  6/3/2012

Privet and Muscadine  6/3/2012
Reopening a project from a few years ago;
shooting the invasive forests.
When people think of the invasive species problem, they probably think of Kudzu in the Southeast or Boa Constrictors in Florida, maybe they know of the Pigface ice plant take-over of Southern California beaches.  But I've found the Privet forests the most fearful.  They are tangled and sticky.  Kudzu is frightening to walk through because you can't see where you're stepping, but the Privet goes right for the eye.  It completely surrounds you, and when fully developed swoops above the ground at about 3 feet so the twiggy baby privets can march out from the center.  It's not unusual to find a clearing like the one above, strange places, uncomfortable and close. This is one situation where my small size helps.

I've been walking my dog at a trail called the Silver Comet for about a year now.  We like to go off into the bushes and follow the deer paths to where they disappear.  She used to really like it, but lately when we go there she starts shivering and cowering against me.  I wonder why she does that.  She doesn't react like that at our other walking spots.  These photos were taken there earlier today.

Evolutionary Genetics of Invasive Species by Carol Eunmi Lee

Conclusions and future directions:
"Biological invasions are quintessential models for rapid evolution [2]."
"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else.  As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it.  The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."

( Cool Memories II, Jean Baudrillaud, p. 4)
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