[St Andrew's Botanics, Scotland]
BANANA
INGREDIENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
WATER (75%), SUGARS (12%) (GLUCOSE (48%), FRUCTOSE (40%), SUCROSE (2%), MALTOSE (<1%)), STARCH (5%), FIBRE E460 (3%), AMINO ACIDS (<1%) (GLUTAMIC ACID (19%), ASPARTIC ACID (16%), HISTIDINE (11%), LEUCINE (7%), LYSINE (5%), PHENYLALANINE (4%), ARGININE (4%), VALINE (4%), ALANINE (4%), SERINE (4%), GLYCINE (3%), THREONINE (3%), ISOLEUCINE (3%), PROLINE (3%), TRYPTOPHAN (1%), CYSTINE (1%), TYROSINE (1%), METHIONINE (1%)), FATTY ACIDS (1%) (PALMITIC ACID (30%), OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID: LINOLEIC ACID (14%), OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID: LINOLENIC ACID (8%), OLEIC ACID (7%), PALMITOLEIC ACID (3%), STEARIC ACID (2%), LAURIC ACID (1%), MYRISTIC ACID (1%), CAPRIC ACID (<1%)), ASH (<1%), PHYTOSTEROLS, E515, OXALIC ACID, E300, E306 (TOCOPHEROL), PHYLLOQUINONE, THIAMIN, COLOURS (YELLOW-ORANGE E101 (RIBOFLAVIN), YELLOW-BROWN E160a), FLAVOURS (3-METHYLBUT-1-YL ETHANOATE, 2-METHYLBUTYL ETHANOATE, 2-METHYLPROPAN-1-OL, 3-METHYLBUTYL-1-OL, 2-HYDROXY-3-METHYLETHYL BUTANOATE, 3-METHYLBUTANAL, ETHYL HEXANOATE, ETHYL BUTANOATE, PENTYL ACETATE), 1510, NATURAL RIPENING AGENT (ETHENE GAS)
Planetary Gardens / Echoey Grass / Whales in your garden pond
Could be some sort of garden plan...
Robert Ryman [?], drawing
Robert Ryman [?], drawing
"“For me, trying to think about a whale, that endlessness down in that infinity of depth, in darkness, moving around—with a mind inside it…
LISH: Doing things.
GILBERT: Yes, and silent. I can’t make any adjustment to it. Like Lawrence said: “I said to my heart, who are these? / And my heart couldn’t own them.” He was talking about fish. And he says someplace else in the poem: “There are limits / To you my heart; / And to the one God / Fish are beyond me.” Whales in this sense, the sudden sense of the alien nature of the universe not translatable into human terms. But what particularly interests me is the sense of magnitude. It’s out of scale, and not just physically. It threatens my life, the formulations on which I operate. I have to redo my mind. There’s a poem by Rilke where he goes along describing a statue. All of a sudden, for no reason, he breaks off and says: You must change your life. When I think about whales, it’s the same in a way. Or elephants or love.”
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found on naturedocumentaries.org - brilliant website, loads of documentaries/short features to stream for free
"Evolution jumbles bodies like a dream jumbles words and images."
Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought (pg. 65)
Jean Dubuffet, 'The Tree of Fluids' 1950
Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought (pg. 65)
Jean Dubuffet, 'The Tree of Fluids' 1950
Leaking into me
City gets too dry...
I'll often listen to the sounds of particular environments rather than music when i'm working or reading or travelling or ____. Sea, garden, noisy clouds... I'll collect my favourites in the youtube playlist below. Have a listen, hypnotise yourself...
Environmental Soundscapes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA-0FMPKUC91B7QyMzQIGARXbwtKi1Qs6
[see also Sue Thomas - Technobiophilia]
[a picture of hell i think? - Resurrection of souls. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. The 15 Signs of the Last Judgement. MS. Douce 134 fol. 050v c.1450-70]
I'll often listen to the sounds of particular environments rather than music when i'm working or reading or travelling or ____. Sea, garden, noisy clouds... I'll collect my favourites in the youtube playlist below. Have a listen, hypnotise yourself...
Environmental Soundscapes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA-0FMPKUC91B7QyMzQIGARXbwtKi1Qs6
[see also Sue Thomas - Technobiophilia]
[a picture of hell i think? - Resurrection of souls. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. The 15 Signs of the Last Judgement. MS. Douce 134 fol. 050v c.1450-70]
"...which leads you to think about the nature of the society we live in and what you're going to do about that because in the long run that's the only way of fundamentally making any difference to these problems."
David Smail
Some links to the brilliant website Smail kept -
Anatomy of power - http://www.davidsmail.info/anpower.htm
Organizations - http://www.davidsmail.info/polipage.htm
r.i.p Mark Fisher
Why mental health is a political issue
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The Privitisation of Stress
Good for nothing
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org
Why mental health is a political issue
'The NHS, like the education system and other public services, has been forced to try to deal with the social and psychic damage caused by the deliberate destruction of solidarity and security. Where once workers would have turned to trade unions when they were put under increasing stress, now they are encouraged to go to their GP or, if they are lucky enough to be able to be get one on the NHS, a therapist.
It would be facile to argue that every single case of depression can be attributed to economic or political causes; but it is equally facile to maintain – as the dominant approaches to depression do – that the roots of all depression must always lie either in individual brain chemistry or in early childhood experiences. Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But most psychotherapy doesn't address the social causation of mental illness either.
The radical therapist David Smail argues that Margaret Thatcher's view that there's no such thing as society, only individuals and their families, finds "an unacknowledged echo in almost all approaches to therapy". Therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy combine a focus on early life with the self-help doctrine that individuals can become masters of their own destiny. The idea is "with the expert help of your therapist or counsellor, you can change the world you are in the last analysis responsible for, so that it no longer cause you distress" – Smail calls this view "magical voluntarism".
Depression is the shadow side of entrepreneurial culture, what happens when magical voluntarism confronts limited opportunities. As psychologist Oliver James put it in his book The Selfish Capitalist, "in the entrepreneurial fantasy society," we are taught "that only the affluent are winners and that access to the top is open to anyone willing to work hard enough, regardless of their familial, ethnic or social background – if you do not succeed, there is only one person to blame." It's high time that the blame was placed elsewhere. We need to reverse the privatisation of stress and recognise that mental health is a political issue.'
- Mark Fisher (for The Guardian)
- Mark Fisher (for The Guardian)
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The Privitisation of Stress
Good for nothing
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org
Dutch trains become 100% wind-powered - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/dutch-trains-100-percent-wind-powered-ns
'This is possible. We did it': the week Portugal ran on renewables -
“What seems important to emphasize is that this process of escape is actually a kind of radical engagement, as the artist Paul Chan has pointed out. To disappear into something, to become obsessed with something, to unfold an endless curiosity, to let go of our selves and allow this to happen is a necessary step toward understanding, toward the kind of learning that changes you, the way events change you, alter you (falling in love), or even the way powerful ideas can punch dents in the back of our naturally unhistorical brains.”
https://twitter.com/naomiaklein
https://theleapblog.org
http://sustainable-economy.org
https://theleapblog.org
http://sustainable-economy.org
This City Just Banned Virtually All New Dirty-Energy Infrastructure - [https://www.thenation.com/article/this-city-just-banned-virtually-all-new-dirty-energy-infrastructure/]
The Funambulist / Archipelago
"Nothing of what we design is politically innocent. Architecture, furniture, clothing, art, books, but also laws and policies constitute artifacts that are important to critically question at a political level. That is what proposes the Archipelago platform: conceived as a different medium than the traditional means of knowledge transmission like the university, it proposes four podcasts every week of conversations with various thinkers of the world about this question."
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