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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Jophiel
by Walter Bruneel Jophiel, יופיאל, Zophiel, conscious light, illumination, intellect, wisdom, law, “[a] regent of zodiacal Libra who cures stupidity in humans,” “Archangel of Paradise” (quots. from Wikipedia) Advertisements
Bookshelf: defenestrated
I defenestrated Idoru, by William Gibson, though I really, really wanted to love it, because my then-supervisor cherished him so that while not steampunking the dirt in the yards forth and back of her large tippy house or smoking before … Continue reading
Architectural urges
It turns out that everything I come across keeps connecting and fleshing out ideas, which is no surprise. The silly fun of searching for the right word in response to The Selby’s gorgeous plays on personal space and expressions of … Continue reading
Posted in nomenclature
Tagged Capi, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, desire, landscape, phenomenology, TED, The Curve of Time, The Selby, utopian impulse, utopian space
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The word is spatial.
Eureka. I have found the word I knew must be. Happy, a word, a day, how appropriate for thoughts of time and space. Place/space senses led me to it, working out the lexical lack with friends who care what kind … Continue reading
There must be a word
as perfect and literary as sartorial, but of or relating to home, space, living place, personal, not a magazine page, but an expression of attitude, emotion, desire, tension, history, a reflecting pool of the mind where it was and where it … Continue reading
From the rug: A note on Levinas on time
Michael Morgan on Levinas: Levinas actually says precisely this: ‘The future that death gives the future of the event, is not yet time.’ . . . ‘[T]he condition of time lies in the relationship between humans or in history.’” This post … Continue reading
Posted in nomenclature
Tagged Blanchet, Capi, Emmanuel Levinas, literature, Michael Morgan, phenomenology, relationship, The Curve of Time, time
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