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Channel: Microdoses

Short-form, experimental, and poetic literary fragments—often shocking, surreal, and psychedelic in nature—yet in small, manageable doses...
"only poetry isn't shit" neon sign

Prediction

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 29 Mar 2023 Microdoses Poetry AI, humanity, language, poetry, technology

Prediction—or personal pose: / In the Age of AI / Poetry will be the last refuge / Of human language.

Memory is the real name of the relation to the self, or of the affect of oneself by oneself. According to Kant, time was the form in which the spirit affected itself, as the space was the form in which the spirit was affected by something else ; time was therefore "self-affection", constituting the essential structure of the subjectivity. But time as subject, or rather subjectification, is called Memory. Not that short memory that comes after, and opposed to oblivion, but "the absolute memory" which doubles the present, which redoubles the outside, and which is one with oblivion, as it is itself and continuously forgotten to be redone ; its fold merges with the unfold, because this one remains present in this other one, as what is folded. Only oblivion (unfolding) finds again what is folded into the memory (in the fold itself). (...) What is opposed to the memory is not the oblivion, but the oblivion of oblivion, which dissolves us outside, and which constitutes the death. (Gilles Deleuze - Foucault, Les Editions de Minuit, 1986 )

in under 500 characters…

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 29 Mar 2023 Microdoses Poetry AI, Barthes, Foucault, discourse, theory, writing

Now that #ai is colonizing / #writing, my mind goes back / to studying theory in the ’90s:

Featured Image: Salvador Dali, Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943

Ars Poetica

By
  • Brian George
| 14 Feb 2023 Microdoses Poetry CIA, conspiracy, surreal, technology, weird

There is no rest for the search engine. The unquiet dead play games with the subject/ object interface. It appears that our operating system is not a friend to Jesus. Logos flash through the sky of the Sinkiang Autonomous Region. Our wet dreams run through fiberoptic cables.

To the Cleft of the Mountain We Go

By
  • Shant Alajajian
| 2 Jun 2022 Microdoses Poetry Mystical, Mythos, esoteric, gnostic, hermetic, neo-platonic

Fold up the linen and keep the receipts / Re-bury the boxes in earth. / Tight—shut the windows, hermetically seal / Let nobody see its birth! // Golden-brown bodies with Sun-kissed lips / Don silver-moon garments of old. / Hush— cool silence for raging and violence / Fire’s mouth must be closed to console. // To the cleft of the mountain we go!

Lo fatal by Rubén Darío – performance and translation

By
  • Marco V Morelli
  • Douglas Duff
| 31 Dec 2021 Microdoses Poetry epsañol, latin america, music, performance, spanish, translation

Marco V Morelli reads Darío’s classic in original Spanish, with music by Doug Duff. There is a new English translation as well.

Jupiter Square Saturn

By
  • Selah Grenewood
| 21 Oct 2021 Microdoses Poetry Mythos, jupiter, poetry, saturn

“Jupiter crash landed into Saturn.” As above, so below. What follows is a short and bittersweet astrological allegory about the power struggles that ensue in the heavens.

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Universal Eggs Benedict

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 21 Oct 2020 Microdoses Essays, Humor cosmogenesis, eggs, food, funny, recipes

Ingredients: 2 eggs (poached), hollandaise sauce (egg yolk, butter, lemons), English muffin, bacon slices, and something extra to enlarge the whole. Eggs, when you really think about them, are bizarro. Little pockets of pre-embryonic fluid. If you were …

Tego Calderón in a scholastic study about reggaeton dancing.

Dissecting the video-essay: “Perreo as a spatio-temporal re-configurator”

Explicit By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 30 Apr 2020 Microdoses Explicit Araceli Masterson, Ecuadorians in Madrid, Eduardo Makoszay Mayén, Latin, Latin music, Perreo, Tego Calderón, kinosphere, reggaeton, scholastic study, sexual explicitness, video-essay

https://vimeo.com/313734066 Reggaeton took over the planet. Latin music had never been so popular, so present in the global arena, so influential. But, is the world ready for a formal, scholastic study of the phenomenon? Eduardo Makoszay Mayén seems to …

An introduction to Jodo’s movies: “Who Is Alejandro Jodorowsky?”

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 7 Oct 2019 Microdoses Cinema, Reviews Alejandro Jodorowsky, Aztecs, Chile, Dune, El Topo, France, Jodo, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Orson Welles, Psycomagic, Salvador Dalí, Santa Sangre, THe Holy Mountain, Tarot de Marseille, YouTube, culture, documentary, essay, film, quotes

How to decipher Alejandro Jodorowsky’s symbolic film world? Here’s an introduction.

Alan Moore by Fabio Abbreccia

Alan Moore spills the beans on the Book Shambles podcast

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 11 Apr 2019 Microdoses Books Alan Moore, Block Universe Theory, Book Shambles, Eternalism, Fabio Abreccia, Georg Cantor, Jerusalem, London, Robin Ince, Royal Albert Hall, Sarah Kendall, Simulation Theory, Superhero Movies, The nature of time, UK, philosophy, time

Arguably the most respected comic book writer, Alan Moore, gives you more information that you can chew in one sitting.

David Lynch by Knut Larsson, illustration.

A rare David Lynch interview about meditation, creativity and the absence of anger

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 28 Mar 2019 Microdoses Audio, Interviews Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch, Interfaith Voices, Knut Larsson, Lynch, Meditation, Mitch Horowitz, Mulholland Drive, Stress related Illnesses, Transcendental Meditation, anger, art, artists, coffee, creativity, ideas, spiritual

A never-before-heard interview with David Lynch by Mitch Horowitz, mostly about meditation and creativity.

quadrating a blind blotch circlature . . – by Jef Safi

Two Tastes

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 20 Mar 2019 Microdoses Poetry alt-integral, post-human, theory, tragedy

on differences that make a difference, or aesthetics

Illustration: Jack Parsons in a screenshot from the video above.

“Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons – Movement II, Too the Moon” by The Claypool Lennon Delirium

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 21 Feb 2019 Cultural Consumption, Microdoses Audio, Music, Reviews, Video Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, NASA, Primus, Sean Lennon, South of Reality, Terry Gilliam, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, animation, occult, rock, rockets

The Claypool Lennon Delirium masterfully tells the story of rocket scientist/ occultist Jack Parsons.

Consuelos de Cocina

By
  • Maía
| 10 Oct 2018 Features, Microdoses Poetry

Hands of the dead here in my living hands / as I split stony squash with a crack of the blade, / scoop seeds, oil flesh for the fire—hands / of women and men in my hands, generations / repeating these gestures, the old pleasure…

The Face

By
  • Ian Cumings
| 2 Oct 2018 Features, Microdoses Fiction psychedelics, surreal

He was but a breath, a simple creation of some greater existence. Nothing implied, nothing necessary, nothing required. Just a breath. As was the face. And is the face. And always will be the face.

grammatological monster

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 14 Aug 2018 Microdoses Audio, Poetry

I noted that since the time of Gebser, our ‘grammatical mirror’ has exploded (while remaining mostly mentally fixated) but that we might ‘update’ Gebser by finding evidence of the post-postmodern (integral) now. This text (and accompanying audio) is meant to illustrate that point.

Kai C. Schwarzer, Mehr Rue [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]

A Precoded Message of Damage

By
  • Dean Wilcox
| 22 Jul 2018 Features, Microdoses Fiction Mythos

The subject was discovered on a routine gravimetric exploration approximately one mile beneath the Earth’s surface in a small cavern rich in copper. Dwelling in complete darkness and surrounded by approximately 3500 urns of various shapes and sizes, the age of the subject remains indeterminate. Subsequent testing revealed the age of the urns to be approximately 500,000 years old.

Salmon Run

By
  • Paul Maylone
| 8 Nov 2017 Microdoses Cinema, Music

Music and lyrics by Paul Maylone. Listen free….

Frédéric Glorieux, Selfie on emergency shroud — Avatar en suaire de survie

Streets of Paris

By
  • Paul Maylone
| 6 Aug 2017 Microdoses Audio, Music Society (Multitudes)

Music and lyrics by Paul Maylone. “You will turn me into fire, / You will turn me into war, / I will give my life as openly as so many before….”

How to Live in the Future (Part 2)

By
  • Michael Garfield
| 7 Nov 2016 Microdoses Essays

If some Omega Point in hyperspace, the Eschaton that waits for us at history’s end, draws all mundane phenomena into its all-embracing unity, we’re implicated in that vast conspiracy already. We can celebrate. But particles apparently pop in and out of being all the time, each moment a Creation. All of it occurs at once, a party more than a parade. So point me to “the” Singularity, again?

Banishing the World: Conner Habib on Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 26 Oct 2016 Microdoses Interviews Noetics (Mind/Spirit), courses, culture, occultism, philosophy, postmodernism

I spoke with Conner Habib about his new course, “Banishing the World: Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult,” and learned about the surprising ways in which the most interesting and sophisticated philosophies coming out of humanities converge precisely with occult ideas.

Taking the Waters

By
  • Natalie Bantz
| 24 Oct 2016 Microdoses Poetry florida, florida literature, poetry

“We are lost and strangers to this place, this mother of terrors and wonders.”

Gonjasufi’s “Vinaigrette” & The Dark Night of the Soul

By
  • Michael Richardson-Borne
| 9 Sep 2016 Microdoses Cinema culture

I saw the freedom of the open streets in the early morning and the romance of the street lamps curled with the eerie silence of the city’s expanse. What you call “an isolated figure” makes a left turn into a horizon of pillowy clouds and endures some kind of ecstasy while being alone in a motel room. The film feels alive, present.

A Mind Altogether Stranger

By
  • Jack Hunter
| 2 Sep 2016 Microdoses Essays consciousness, culture, dreams, philosophy

What if consciousness actually is something akin to the way it is experienced?

How to Live in the Future (Part One)

By
  • Michael Garfield
| 22 Aug 2016 Microdoses Essays Teilhard de Chardin, time

When I attempt to visualize “the future” as I learned to think of it in childhood, I see the image of a silvery, metallic, shifting sphere…

Notes on Wallace Stevens and Animism

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 15 Aug 2016 Microdoses Essays, Poetry Henri Bergson, Wallace Stevens, animism, the shining

There is no interiority whatsoever. Belief in interiority, in private unextended subjectivity, is a modern conceit.

Chaos, Crisis, and Creativity. A live hangout with the editors of Metapsychosis

By
Metapsychosis
| 1 Aug 2016 Microdoses Community culture

Join us this Thursday, August 4th, at 8 p.m. EDT (time zone conversion) for a live Zoom hangout with the editors of Metapsychosis, as we close out our Inception cycle (0.6)—and look ahead to our next phase.

Coda – A Short Film of Life and Death

By
  • Natalie Bantz
| 22 Jul 2016 Microdoses Cinema CODA

I found this beautiful animated gem as a randomly generated suggestion for my Youtube account. The Irish have always had a unique, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous relationship with death, so it comes as no surprise that this portrait of the psychopo …

Digital Mack is in the House

By
  • Digital Mack
| 22 Jul 2016 Microdoses Visual Art digital art

“As I looked at his work, I realized that the images seemed to be moving in front of my eyes. Or in my eyes, vibrating into my brain. (I was otherwise sober.) They also reminded me of the skateboard and graffiti art my brother, a tattoo artist in New York, has loved since our childhood. I stared at each piece—faces and eyeballs, subtle patterns—and felt an oscillating time dimension, layers of color and emotion.”

Subterranean Chambers

By
  • Oliver Rabinovitch
| 21 Jul 2016 Microdoses Cinema

The sounds Chrystalis produces are the kind that you wish to keep to yourself; ones you don’t share with anyone.

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