“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
The future is a benevolent black hole.
Sagittarius A* / Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates / Outer Wilds (2020) / Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics? / Drain for overflowing water at Sambuco Dam, Lavizzara Valley / ? / Thomasin Frances, Hole Theory (15/10/2022) / Bryan’s Ground, a public garden in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. / odd, weird, strange and unusual / Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves / Illustration of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 from “A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy”, Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886) / @imdad_barbhuyan on Instagram / The moon’s Copernicus crater. Through magic glasses. 1890. / Kaveh Akbar / Darina Muravjeva, Hole / Hilde Heynen in Heterotopia and the City / x / Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers / x / Louise Glück, from Descending Figure / Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. / Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from “A Letter To Love” / Lara de Moor, Orb (2014) / Sam Sax, Pig / The National - Wake Up Your Saints / Aleksander Rostov / Sanna Wani, from “Princess Mononoke (1997)”, My Grief, the Sun / Gregory Orr, [i want to go back] / James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room / Massive sinkhole swallows house in Florida / Edna St Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952) /Silent Hill 4 (2004) / Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t / Law of Holes / Scarlet Hollow (2021) / Lucy Dacus - Cartwheel
sharp objects, gillian flynn | house of the dragon (2022–) | interview with the vampire (2022–) | succession (2018–2023)
@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick
David Shrigley
Julien Baker, Loss Protocol
→ the map is not the thing mapped
1. Eric Temple Bell, Numerology (1933) 2. Alfred Korzybski, “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics” in Science and Sanity (1933) 3. Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science” (1946) in Collected Fictions (trans. Andrew Hurley) 4.Mark S. Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps (1991) 5. xkcd, “Map Projections” 6. Paul B. Anderson, “Distortion On Map Projections Using Gedymin Profiles” (2009) 7. Jakub Nowosad, “Proportions of apparent size and real size (animated)” [relationship between the Mercator projection and the actual relative size of each country] (2018) 8. Tissot’s Indicatrices visualizing the distortion between the world as a 3D sphere (where the indicatrices are all identical circles) and a 2D projection of its surface (i.e. onto the Mercator projection) 9. Raymond B. Craib, “Cartography and Decolonization” in Decolonizing the Map ed. James R. Akerman (2017) 10. The West Wing 2.16 - “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” (2001) 11. Matthew H. Edney, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (1997) 12. J. B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” (1990), Cartographica 26(2): 1-20 13. Apoorva Tadepalli, “Colonial Cartography: The more personal maps become, the more intimately we accept their imperialistic ideology,” Real Life magazine (2019) 14. Jeff VanderMeer’s annotations on his book Annihilation (2014) 15. Lindsay Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings (2019)
Shelter dogs are still just dogs. You are still a dog. You still love.
— quote from a piece my boyfriend rewrote.
i'll add credits asap! (i say, about every recent web weave i post)
-despite everything, there is still love
@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter
David Foster Wallace // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Albert Camus, A Happy Death // Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland // Brené Brown, Dancing Greatly // @danielcalmdown // Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love and Leaps of Faith // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Sleeping At Last—Neptune
A BLURRED LOVE
Into One Another III, To PPP, Berlinde De Bruyckere (2010) / Hysterics of Love, Eric Fischl (1997) / We Are All Flesh, Berlinde De Bruyckere (2009)
INTO THE BLACK
The Night – The Moody Blues // Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Design for The Magic Flute – The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6 // Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night // Dark (2017-2020), created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese // Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft // Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan // Ad Astra (2019) dir. James Gray // High Life (2018) dir. Claire Denis
kaveh akbar, 'calling a wolf a wolf' // doc luben, 'love letters or suicide notes' // @/nutnoce, tumblr // 'my body's made of crushed little stars', mitski // @/ojibwa, tumblr // 'spring', mary oliver
michelle zauner / ocean vuong
Li-Young Lee, "A Hymn to Childhood" // Adonis, "Body" (trans. Khaled Mattawa) // #6—AroarA // @inanotherunivrse // @heavensghost // Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game // Eight—Sleeping At Last // Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry // @lesbiantherian // @inanotherunivrse
julie buntin / jack gilbert / @ryebreadgf / @stuckinapril / harold pinter / jihyun yun
george clausen / edward potthast / nicholas hely hutchinson / victoria vitalyevna samsonova / jeremy miranda / suzanne siegel