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Geoffreyjen Edwards

Since 2019, I am a full-time writer and part-time fashion designer, following retirement from a career as a research scientist. I write science fiction, historical fiction and contemporary fiction, and I have published some poetry. My first novel, science fiction, is Plenum: The First Book of Deo, published by Untimely Books. As a fashion designer, my label, Transforma Garments, focuses on garments that can be modified on-the-fly to serve different needs. A first collection, developed in 2011, the gzip dresses, presented dresses involving three pieces (sleeve, top and skirt) that zipped together in different ways diagonally to form a contemporary look. In 2015 I developed a collection of underbust fashion corsets (the Infinity corsets) which incorporated panels that could be zipped into place to change the appearance of the corset. I am also an editor for Metapsychosis—see my blog postings for details about my editorial practices.

www.geoffreyjenedwards.com Geoffreyjen Edwards on Infinite Conversations

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Cultural Consumption – February / March 2022

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Douglas Duff
| 4 Mar 2022 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Reviews

Fiction, films and search engines meet indigenous names and the chatter of jays; where does our attention wander when it strays on the dappled path?

Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 13 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Technology (Concrescence)

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Sri Aurobindo Reading Circles

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 11 Oct 2021 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Blog

Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…

Part of the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery, image from NASA

Star Gardening

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 May 2021 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Projecting human capability and knowledge into the far future, provided we learn to manage our own planet, it seems possible that humans might learn how to modify stars in ways suited to their future needs. Why might one modify stars? I can think of a …

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Universal Eggs Benedict

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 21 Oct 2020 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Microdoses

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 …

Introduction to the Editors: Geoffrey Edwards – Writing that Transgresses

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2020 Filed Under:
Bateson Reading Group: Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels: See You in Our Dreams: Synthesis of Yoga Practicum: The Minor Gesture: Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Fiction (Intensification), Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

As a fledgeling writer and editor, as well as an (almost-retired) scientist, I am feeling my way into the business of editing, critiquing, choosing. I have eclectic tastes. I read just about anything, and voraciously. I review everything I read—you can …

Organizer of

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Jun 2021 – 18 Jun 2022 Readers Underground Group

Intimate Reading Performance and Social Dreaming Experiment beginning June 19th The story, set in the 2050s, focuses on an underground community of poets, artists, scientists, and theater geeks (Bard-lovers) who share the weird experience of receiving …

Synthesis of Yoga Practicum

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Marco Masi
  • Mattéo Needham
| 22 Apr 2020 – 31 Jan 2023 Readers Underground Group

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.

Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 Jul 2019 – 12 Aug 2020 Readers Underground Group

Since Fall 2019, we have been reading works by “visionary poets.” While what constitutes “visionariness” is an open and dynamic question (with intense contemporary relevance) we began our quest to bring visionary voices to life by alternately reading a …

Gregory Bateson

Bateson Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 10 Jan 2019 – 30 May 2019 Readers Underground Group

We will be reading one of the 20th Century’s seminal works, the collection of essays by Gregory Bateson assembled in the book called Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and, as a counterpoint, essays and poems by his daughter Nora Bateson under the title Small Arcs of Larger Circles.

Parable of the Sower, artwork by John Jude Palencar

Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2018 – 7 Oct 2018 Readers Underground Group

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell, in the author’s words, a “cautionary tale”—which some have called prophetic, and some attribute to extraordinary powers of extrapolation—about a speculative version of America betwe …

Erin Manning, Saffron (COLLECTIVE FABULATIONS - PROPOSITIONS FOR SOCIAL DREAMING)

The Minor Gesture

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 25 Apr 2018 – 4 Jul 2018 Readers Underground Group

Erin Manning is a friend and colleague who lives in Montreal and heads up the SenseLab at Concordia University. Her book Relationscapes—Movement, Art, Philosophy profoundly influenced my own work at the intersection between the sciences and t …

Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with “visionary tendencies”—artists and scientists, writers and designers, tree-huggers and technologists—lovers of truth, goodness, beauty, and life in worlds upon worlds… It’s a big Cosmos, right? Visionaries of the world, unite! Seriously, this is supposed to be fun. Help us create a better Cosmos…

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