shit i dunno

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. This determines the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. They must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is merely a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand—like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery—in the sober rooms of our later insights. True, for successful excavations a plan is needed. Yet no less indispensable is the cautious probing of the spade in the dark loam, and it is to cheat oneself of the richest prize to preserve as a record merely the inventory of one's discoveries, and not this dark joy of the place of the finding, as well. Fruitless searching is as much a part of this as succeeding, and consequently remembrance must not proceed in the manner of a narrative or still less that of a report, but must, in the strictest epic and rhapsodic manner, assay its spade in ever-new places, and in the old ones delve to ever-deeper layers.

Thinking about this. So many people in the US are adult children

maybe you should learn to appreciate low culture media, my friend. 😉 I cannot understand how an artist could have the perspective that media made for children doesnt have artistic value or can't be appreciated on a 'deep' level. also, think about the fact that the people youre talking about are at undergraduate art school, so they are probably mostly 18 years old. They have lots of time to find media made for adults that speaks to them.

Can't stop thinking about the Eno quote now . . . .

here's a googoodrive folder containing learnings on Experiential Learning in Ecological Restoration annnddd Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts. each course folder contains a "![Course number] Notes" document as well as PDFs of all the text-based readings that the notes draw from :-)

Patient on the Pitt: wahhh my feet hurt

there are a lot of people reflexively warning people not to be antisemitic and point the finger at Israel when the US chose to go to war with iran. but then you read literally any journalistic coverage and they're all like "yeah Israel and Bibi personally have spent months convincing administration personnel and influential republicans, and eventually Trump himself, to go to war with iran. they were actively pushing for it and working hard to make it happen."

so apparently the dsm 6 is being structured around bio-pathologizing mental illness specifically in the direction of biomarkers…if u aren’t concerned about this maybe you should be…

…so they’re now trying to search for “biomarkers”- which are essentially genes, or circumstances of conception/birth/what have you, that can “increase the risk” of mental illnesses. how is this any different from people wondering if there’s a “gay gene?” or autism speaks trying to find a genetic or reproductive “cure for autism?”

Psychiatry as an institution functions to obfuscate the causes of mental and emotional disturbance (economic exploitation, abuse, lack of access to resources, etc) by describing mental illness as an individual pathology that needs to be recognized and treated by science.

this is not like a theory. people have known this for YEARS. we have photos