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Tag: culture

Monsieur Flaubert Is Not a Writer

By
  • Brian George
| 17 Feb 2023 Features Essays art, counter-culture, criticism, culture, diy, humor, literature, writing

With his first book recently published, essayist, poet, and artist Brian George reflects on the bizarre and often humorous ways that great works of the past were received by their contemporary critics, and how changes in the cultural landscape over the last few centuries—but especially since his coming of age in the Boston poetry and punk scenes of the late 1970s—have profoundly altered the ways we read, receive, and understand new works.

Norman Lewis, title unknown (March in Washington), 1965, oil on canvas

The Self, As Ensemble, The Prose, Like Jazz—On Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place

Explicit By
  • Thomas Larson
| 27 May 2022 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.

Cultural Consumption – February / March 2022

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Douglas Duff
| 4 Mar 2022 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

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?

CULTURAL CONSUMPTION: What We’re Reading, Watching, Listening to, and Thinking About – Dec 2021 / Jan 2022

By
  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 31 Dec 2021 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

Our bodies transform what we eat, and with our minds we re-create and transform culture. Here are some of the works that have gotten our attention recently and feel worth sharing.

New Reading Group: Soliciting Interest in the Subject of “Consequential Reality”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), consciousness, culture, hyperstition, ontology, paranormal, theory of mind, weird

Fakes, egregores, and conspiracies are overtaking our perceptions of the world—what’s behind such reality mirrors, and where do the reflections or projections in them come from? Join Brigid and a group of kindred spirits for readings, discussion, and a deep exploration of these intriguing questions at the edges of our knowing.

Chthonia Expanded: Living the Dream

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 16 Nov 2021 Signal Boost News borderland, chthonia, culture, jobmarket, liminal, livingthedream, reiki, scholars

The struggle is real. Many of us aren’t doing what we really want to be doing. We may or may not hate our day jobs, but sometimes you reach a point where you wonder if you’re not just wasting your time. Income is certainly a consideration; many of us s …

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Jun 2021 – 18 Jun 2022 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Society (Multitudes), cli-fi, culture, readers underground, science fiction

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 …

Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Apr 2021 Features Interviews, Visual Art Noetics (Mind/Spirit), contemporary art, culture, drawing, dreams, jung, media, symbols, theater

Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| 8 Sep 2020 – 17 Dec 2020 Cosmos Café Group Books, Community, Essays, Philosophy Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), conlang, culture, language, play, poetics

Starts Sept 8: an exploration of how we can make changes to the structure of our language that reflect and catalyze a planetary paradigm shift towards always-already connectedness…

Introduction to the Editors: Geoffrey Edwards – Writing that Transgresses

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2020 Signal Boost Fiction Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), about, culture, editors, introductions, submissions, tech

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 …

Metapsychosis WANTS YOU (to Bring Forth What Is Within You)

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 18 Jul 2020 Signal Boost News Society (Multitudes), culture

A Call for Submissions & Invitation to Collaborate. Until August 25th, 2020, the editors of Metapsychosis are accepting submissions towards our next publishing cycle. Share your creative work and get involved…

MaricónMaricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 28 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

“Sex and God or sex and death.” I repeated his phrase, feeling a slight slur in my speech brought on by the beer on an empty stomach. “Is that all there is?”

MaricónMaricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 20 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

​I was jealous of Pedro’s imaginary lovers and of his vaster sexual experience. Short poems, long poems, quirky poems, I read them in secret when he was out. I didn’t understand them. Poem after poem, sounding much alike, revealed the charms of some new image of his desire, even as he prayed for some kind of deliverance from his too, too solid flesh…

MaricónMaricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

I felt that many kinds of patterns, of ancient origins, had been stamped onto our writhing, wrestling, male flesh, and that we had entered this forbidden zone many times before…

Maricón

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Collection Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

Harold Bloom, Heart-Reader Extraordinaire

By
  • Andrew Field
| 21 Oct 2019 Features Books Daemon, Harold Bloom, Heart Reading, culture, tribute

What was Harold Bloom? I don’t know, but here is my answer for now.

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.

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, by Murtada Johnny

Reading “The Rain Song” by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, with Dona Abbadi

By
Metapsychosis
| 3 Apr 2019 Features Poetry culture, poetry, translation

Metapsychosis #OnlyPoetry channel presents: A guided reading and discussion of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab’s poem, “The Rain Song,” with Jordan-based author Dona Abbadi. Dona guides us through a reading of one of the most belov …

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| 21 Mar 2019 Features Interviews, Reviews Society (Multitudes), culture

It is about the trials and tribulations of lovers who are set in a dismal, bleak universe—much like our current reality in NYC one could even argue. They are challenged to come to terms with each other and deal with various issues such as ego, conflicting decisions, and insecurities.

The Glory of Groove

By
  • Liane Gabora
| 3 Oct 2018 Features Fiction, Story culture

Meet Sidney (aka the Sacred Scribe)—a PhD candidate in Physics with a problem in the paradoxical human realm of love. What does a love triangle look like in the fourth dimension? Quantum indeterminacy rules, as Sidney and her friends explore a bold new cosmology uniting Science and Spirituality, and Sidney’s “wave function” must decide between the primal magnetism of Bruno, her friendship with Alyzia, and the life of her mind and creative soul.

Still image from Darren Aronofsky's 'mother!'

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”interpreting mother! – conversation 2

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 Aug 2018 Cinema Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

disparate minds meet to discuss Darren Aronfsky’s feature film, mother! with: brigid burke, mark jabbour, marco v morelli, natalia anthony

promotional post for darren aronofsky's 'mother!'

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”interpreting mother! – convo 1

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 Aug 2018 Cinema Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

disparate minds meet to discuss Darren Aronfsky’s feature film, mother! with: jf martel, caroline savery, john davis, geoffrey edwards, and marco v morelli

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”The Mythology of Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 23 Jul 2018 Features Cinema Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

Packed with archetypal, mythological, and religious symbolism, Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ baffled audiences with its disturbing tale of home invasion…and world destruction. This essay unpacks some of the deeper layers of the film from the perspectives of religion and psychology, western esotericism, and comparative mythology.

Sunlight Through A Broken Leaf — Still from Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (1998), DP: John Toll

On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J. F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue

By
  • J.F. Martel
  • Christopher Yates
| 29 Apr 2018 Features Cinema, Essays, Interviews culture

What can films tell us about reality? In a deep-ranging dialogue drawing on the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger and looking at works by Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, and other celebrated auteurs, two contemporary aesthetic thinkers reflect on the ways in which cinema brings us into a deeper, stranger relationship with the world, and our being in it.

Gao Xingjian, Inner World, 2007

Soul MountainThe Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian

By
  • Cosmos
| 7 Apr 2018 Books, Video Society (Multitudes), culture

Our reading group on Gao Xingjian’s novel Soul Mountain begins a with a preliminary talk about his Nobel Prize acceptance essay, “The Case for Literature.”

Black Panther promo art, by markfresch, via hdqwalls.com

The Marvelous Mythos of Black Panther

By
  • Darrell Fester (Mythos Collective)
  • Zachary Feder
| 9 Mar 2018 Features Cinema, Reviews, Video Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

We warmly welcome Darrell Hester (Mythos Collective) and Zachary Feder to Metapsychosis. Zachary, a writer and interlocutor on our forum at Infinite Conversations, contacted Darrell after seeing one of YouTube videos. In this talk, they cover everything from the cultural and psychological significance of the film to the esoteric meaning of vibranium. This is their first talk—with more to come, we hope!

mammovies, Meditation

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseInvolving us, evolving us (Epilogue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

We are powerful enough to burst through the artificial narrative-bubble of projections of power-over, and step together into the brisk air of the real world in all its complexity—painful, wonderful, multiplicitous. If, in that fine first inhalation of fresh air, we take in a deep moment of peace, we may hear the aspirations of all living things…

new 1lluminati, Tasty World (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseThat which corrupts, that which creates (Power)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

Perhaps there is a common ground for humankind that runs deeper than the machinations of a “power-over” mythology. Let us envision a more optimal design that meets more needs through respecting life’s innate capacity for intelligence and beauty.

new_1lluminati, religion is a region with a li(e) in it

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseWanting to believe (Seduction)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

Our human desires and emotions are oftentimes the “hooks” that memes use to attach to us. Once a meme has colonized us, it can profoundly guide our actions in the world. Therefore, we need to develop discernment to parse the beneficial memes from the malicious ones.

new 1lluminati, akashic record (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseYou have the power I give you (Talisman)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

The power Trump commands is given by us—our attention, our deference, our minds, hearts, lives. In little ways, we can retake control of how and to what purposes we deploy our minds and spirits.

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