Associations

Madness in the method.

Can micro phenomenology be useful in making transparent some of the associative, intuitive, yet rigorous methods that artist-researchers routinely employ?

 Apophenia: noun

ap·​o·​phe·​nia | \ ˌa-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə  \

: the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas) What psychologists call apophenia—the human tendency to see connections and patterns that are not really there—gives rise to conspiracy theories.

(Miriam Webster Online Dictionary, 2021)

Ideas matter.

Hyperstition makes a mess of fiction.

All flesh is grass.

A raindrop falls on water

Concentric circles not touching but joined.

Ripples meet ripples, merge and interfere. Amplifications happen. These travel. Others disappear.

Noise cancelling headphones. Carry the thought. Carry the nought.

Two noises equal silence. Two minuses make a plus. One and one does not equal two

Join the dots. Dot the eyes.

These concepts cannot land in my body. Fascinators. Spider logic spells. Paralysed in spinning gossamer.

The answer is to keep moving.

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[Author’s note: I’ve maintained the date of creating this blogpost, but it remained unpublished until June 4th 2024. I have become more relaxed these days about the blog containing unfinished thoughts.]