three quotes

"[Marx's] enquiry into wage-labour is initiated from the point of view of a division of labour between self-employed producers (farmer meets cloth-maker), and proceeds to analyze the dual nature of labour: concrete (labour has use value) and abstract (it produces exchange value)." Dauvé, Value, Time, and Communism

"The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges." Quine, The Verification Theory and Reductionism

"What we know is `So-and-so has a mind which has such and such properties' but we do not know `A has such and such properties', where A is the mind in question. In such a case, we know the properties of a thing without having acquaintance with the thing itself, and without, consequently, knowing any single proposition of which the thing itself is a constituent." Russell, On Denoting

isnt day tripper a beatles''' song ?

If you are afraid to walk into the forest at night, walk into the forest at night. The monsters are hideous in a different way than you'd expect. A whol straight line of trees can make a Nazi village of erect nationalistic design templates - as sweet as the century's vocabulary turn. It's hard to resist not making up me words, but neologismaticism, while it can be dogmaticism, perhaps romanticism, is certainly not responsible for the

"Vinothek" is a jolly good word

If the greatness of humanity resides in our "unique" ability to think, to adapt diverse environments to our uses and our needs... (An ontological assertion of capitalism)
Yet the observer can never be impartial, "we" being the observer. Neither can the actor, the agent, the Subject, "I"... "I" being the one Self who thinks and acts... Fragments of one-another, twofold, perhaps distorted...
Taking into account the sempiternality of shifting environmental factors, agents, vectors, components, whatever the fuck you want to call them...
Are humans capable of a deep enough understanding of our varied environments and their interconnections to be able to make decisions regarding what we should be adapting to and what we should be adapting to us?
Can we think clearly enough? Are we a healthy species? Can we as people even take a moral or ethical standpoint about the species? Can we change, be changed, change ourselves? Can we even consider ourselves all the same? Equal and free? What entitles us to this, or do we even need entitlement? Do we have the power in ourselves, united to dismantle the machinery of our lives and refuse to be manipulated?
Epistemology is meaningless when everything begs a question. Sometimes, we are meaningless beneath the weight of our own questioning.

Scissoring Scientists, what an artifice!

"Cosmos: a complex and orderly system, such as our universe; the opposite of chaos." (Counterbalance)

The cosmic and the chaotic may not exist severed from one-another as in the cisions of language and representation. References to "our" universe as complex and orderly contain not only the assumption upon which science elaborates itself (that all is knowable and will be known - the heights of intellectual utopianism) but also the ego of the "scientific observer". Though the structure of science may posit itself as that authority which seeks to reveal the universal-mathematical principles governing all (its own claim to truth), this position is deeply flawed, as it fails to take into account the forces of chaos present in the universe - the same universe it idealizes as a clockwork organism. The truth of the matter (and the anti-matter) is that not everything is observable, nor do science and its acolytes have the proper tools, physical and psychical, to apprehend all that is out there as well as within, intertwined, simultaneous, cosmic and chaotic.

Three Quotes

"Only with the advent of capitalism did development become a global and universal principle, subsuming and reshaping every form of life in its territorial and economic expansion." (Haider & Mohandesi, Jacobin)

"An animal’s nervous system does not have to compute or represent exact positions and speeds for its legs before initiating an action, but can rely on the fact that the physics of the swinging leg can provide the sensory feedback needed to make small motor corrections on the fly." (Allen, Footnote)

"But people aren't like gas particles or biological billiard balls. We evolved behavioral flexibility and complex interdependent variable reactions." (Bhalla, Scientific American)

streams of streams

j'aime une flic. sapientia is beguiling; we assume, for instance, the myth of coffee and cigarette. we merely repeat. the record ain't broken, it just grew wings and flew away. yes, i see her, she's right in front of me - this not in the metaphorical or idealistic sense but regarding questions of sensation, you must surmise. her directness is a gun. once i saw her rack the slide of a shotgun back and aim it at the wall. i felt a rush like blood. i realized, narrative the cloak fell crumpled around my ankles, then i was naked, i realized. my hair continued to grow, my fingernails and what's left of my toes. it grew all over me in soft vines. there was a strange reasoning on the wind, words wanted to follow words of their own genus, something continued that i wanted to resist, or resisted by impulse. how does this follow? it doesn't. go the other way.

here's a strange and bitter crop & the uncanny valley

so space and time are interwoven, they're not a duality but for the sake of conversation they sure are.
which, into each part we can take a symbolic dive in a theatre of imagination; we inhabit a dichotomy paradox of ourselves. listen - herein lies the practical problematic of group consensus (it quickly a rubick's cube becoming)... fractal spectacular divisions and diversions in unity. it's an issue of resolving (accepting) an infinitely recurring tendency of premises, the voices involved either:
accept premise(s), reject conclusion
reject premise(s), accept conclusion
accept premise(s) & conclusion
reject premise(s) & conclusion
with each of these being infinitely reducible/expandable - try to imagine a simple difference of height, with the implication of an endless degree of relative angular variation, or "perspective". see how words do it just by making themselves understandable.
analysis aside, we just repeat patterns in nature.
for instance, right now i'm in orbit.