#Art & Literature

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Enheduanna: The World’s First Author and Her Indelible Mark on History

Enheduanna, the world's first known author, was a powerful high priestess who bridged the divine and human realms. Her literary works offer a glimpse into the rich tapestry of ancient Mesopotamian culture. #history #womeninhistory #ancientmesopotamia

In the annals of history, the name Enheduanna stands out as a beacon of literary brilliance and religious authority. Born in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, around 2300 BCE, she was the daughter of the mighty Sargon of Akkad, the founder of the Akkadian Empire. However, her legacy transcends her royal lineage, making her a pioneering figure in the world of literature and religion. A Divine…

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Sunlit Reverence: Celebrating Chhath Puja, the Ancient Festival of Devotion

Sunlit Reverence: Celebrating Chhath Puja, the Ancient Festival of Devotion As dawn breaks over the riverbanks of Bihar and the plains of northern India and Nepal, a beautiful, ancient tradition comes to life – Chhath Puja. This festival honours the Sun God (Surya) and his sister, Chhathi Maiya, embodying themes of purity, gratitude, and resilience. My own memory of this celebration is rich with…

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Top 10 Famous things of Assam: Discover Assam

Top 10 Famous things of Assam. Assam is Known for what? असम किस लिए जाना जाता है? Unique aspects of Assam. Famous attractions in Assam. Famous Assam Tea Assam, the enchanting state in northeastern India, is a land of diverse cultures, rich traditions, and natural beauty. From vibrant festivals to majestic wildlife, Assam has a lot to offer. Here are the top 10 famous things that make Assam…

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Meet Luna, a quiet and reserved girl who has always felt like she didn’t quite fit in. With her long purple hair and glasses, she stood out among the other students at school. But what made her feel even more different was her love for anime.  Luna would spend hours watching her favorite shows and reading manga books, escaping into fantastical worlds where anything was possible. She loved the…

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An extraordinary interrogation: Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

An extraordinary interrogation: Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

I want to tell how sorrow makes a shape that is familiar. And how that familiar thing can be difficult to both name and to narrate. (Note 83) For the past week or so I have been sitting in the presence of this singular text. I have been ill, so it has had a little extra time to spin through my fevered brain. And yet, it is not easy to articulate my response. Ordinary Notes is a text one must come…

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8 Non-Musical Influences on clipping.’s Pivot to Cyberpunk, Dead Channel Sky

[...] “The Gernsback Continuum” by William Gibson Look: the title of our new album comes from what is, perhaps, the most famous opening line in sci-fi literature, but it was just one of at least a dozen possible titles, and it wasn’t settled on until Ian [Anderson, from The Designers Republic] really needed some words to put on the jacket art he was working on. Even more than the Sprawl trilogy, which everybody knows, I was particularly captured by Gibson’s earlier short story “The Gernsback Continuum” where a man is haunted by visions of what the present was supposed to look like from the perspective of 1940s and ’50s “golden age” science fiction. Dead Channel Sky is kind of our update of that—“The Gibson Continuum”—a description of our present, seen through the lens of 1980s cyberpunk literature, and what parts of that imaginary [world] did or did not come true. We wanted to see those past works as a kind of ghostly overlay on top of our current dystopia. Gibson writes: “And as I moved among these secret ruins, I found myself wondering what the inhabitants of that lost future would think of the world I lived in.”

[...] Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering by Andrew “bunnie” Huang Jonathan contributed this pick, citing it as one of the most important works ever written about hardware hacking—about taking a closed, proprietary system, within which the user is only allowed to do a limited number of things, prescribed by a corporation—and breaking that system to discover what other possibilities are hidden within it. This book represents the actual radical potential of the hacker figure—a potential that feels further away today, as internet nerd culture becomes increasingly radicalized toward white supremacy and fascism. Regarding hardware, it has always been important to us that we use our tools in ways that go against their designed intentions. Link Wray distorted the sound of his guitar by poking holes in the speaker cone of his amp. There was a danger in that, a destructive, no-turning-back-now impulse, but also the prospect of discovery. My and Jonathan’s histories in experimental music were driven by finding new, unintended sounds inside our materials. There’s something lost when brand-new boutique Eurorack modules can quickly simulate that danger without the fear of frying your power supply. (Although, we’re not, like, above using those kinds of things, of course.)

Magic Eye posters OK, so I asked Daveed to add something to this list and he suggested Magic Eye posters. Aside from being a dumb, fun, computer-generated novelty from the 1990s, he told me that the way some of the storytelling is obscured in Dead Channel Sky reminds him of how images are hidden within the visual noise patterns of the posters. The listener needs to stop trying, and blur their focus on the surface-level artifice in order to glean any meaning buried in the chaos. But even if they don’t, there’s still this crazy trippy surface to stare at.

Parenthood All three of us became fathers while working on this album, and in some ways, I think Dead Channel Sky is our most hopeful work yet. Not that it isn’t extremely pessimistic and critical of the world we live in—we still are who we’ve always been—but the album’s sonic world is that of the rave, which is often imagined as a form of fleeting utopia. The fact is, our live shows are parties. Sometimes people are surprised by that. Even though the lyrics to our songs are often extremely bleak (isolating sit-at-home-staring-at-your-speakers music), in the context of a show, the real-world material effect is ecstatic. By focusing this album on music that it expressly designed to be danced to in large groups, we’re pointing toward a kind of joy in the collective, and also toward the potential for radical change that that collective could possibly enable. I think of this impulse in relation to Hannah Arendt’s notion of natality as renewal, as the possibility of a new world being born with each baby, and the unexpectedness that engenders—but also our responsibility to make a world that each new person born into it could love.

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Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman

the reason why elio and oliver call each other by their own names:

the whole "call me by your name and i'll call you by mine" thing is something that i don't really see people discuss a lot online, which is pretty unfortunate because it holds great meaning.

i thought about this a lot, but wasn't really able to find an answer myself. while researching i came upon an explanation by alissa wilkinson published in an article in the vox (source: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/11/21/16552862/call-me-by-your-name-review-timothee-chalamet-armie-hammer).

before going into that we have to recall the importance of "old arts" for the story.

arts from ancient greece and rome, as well as old literature and music are frequent in the story. oliver is an archeologist, elio reads old books and transcribes music from composers like bach and listz. the tale of the knight and the princess with the iconic line "is it better to speak or to die?" is also fairly old.

calling each other by their own names is yet another reference to old art, this time specifically to greek mythology, as wilkinson explains.

she refers back to the myth of how zeus created people. here's a quick summary of that myth:

in the beginning zeus created people with four arms and four legs, as well as two faces. he feared that the humans might be too powerful, so he used lightning to split them all in half (hence why we only have two arms and legs and one face now). those 'half-people' were damned to search for their other missing half all their lives. without them, they felt lost, empty, hopeless. once they'd find each other, they'd feel whole again and would be able to live in love with each other forever.

in a way, this is the ancient greek concept of soulmates.

now, apply this concept to elio and oliver:

when elio meets oliver, he ultimately finds his other half. not just metaphorically, but literally. taking the greek myth into consideration, oliver would literally be the other half of elio that was split off him by zeus (and of course the other way around as well). when they come together again they become whole. in a way, elio becomes part of oliver and oliver becomes part of elio. they are themselves individually, but they are also each other.

in the book it is frequently more prominent how much elio wishes to become part of oliver, becoming one, even. it's not necessarily meant in relation to sex. so rather than becoming one through the closeness of sexual intimacy, elio primarily wishes to become one person with oliver. in relation to the myth, this describes elio's thrive to come together with his other half again.

in conclusion, aciman literally wrote elio and oliver to be soulmates, which may explain why aciman still, despite all the heartbreak and damage, chooses to give them a happy ending in the sequel novel Find Me.

i honestly find this reference extremely fascinating. being able to create reference like that gives the novel so much depth and meaning, and it also a highly valuable skill to be able to connect different devices this way. once again aciman proves how much of an incredibly writer he really is.

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13th Doctor's TARDIS:

While the 13 does not destroy her console room during her regeneration, she does change the 'desktop theme' afterward anyways because she feels she could do with a refresh, so with that in mind;

Exterior:

I adore Jodie's TARDIS exterior, so I'm stealing it keeping it as is. (The wooden texture??? The shade of blue??? Yellow windows???? Its Cinema.)

Interior:

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This is the general layout of the console room, but there are some differences from the artwork in my mind's eye:

-The console itself is more similar (if not identical) to 12's console, rotor and all, but the metal is replaced with either wood or a wooden finish, and the top of the rotor no longer has the rotating Gallifreyan symbols but ends at an ornate finish like this.

-There is a jukebox to the right. -A few of the bookcases are filled with Earth and Alien literature, others are filled with vinyl records. (You can find music from every decade. Though I don't think she has updated her collection since 2005) -There is a metal staircase that leads both to the second floor / balcony area (it is a bit wider than the image, there is a small coffee table and a chair if you want to lounge up there) and to the bottom floor underneath the console.

Bottom Floor:

-Situated directly underneath the console, filtered light from the metal grates gives it a hazy vibe. (You can't really see through but you can hold a conversation)

Picture this but the console pillar is more narrow and taller (though still a relatively cramped space, maxes out at 6 feet) -It is EXTREMELY cluttered. There are various random knick knacks and souvenirs scattered about. -To the left, the Doctor has an aged leather armchair with a footrest, an amp and an electric guitar (from her days as 12) resting against it. She likes to absentmindedly pluck at the strings to do her thinking sometimes. -To the right, there is a small, makeshift work bench, she likes to tinker in her spare time. -In the middle is a swing she likes to sit on for repairs, cables for the console hanging overhead. She loves working on the TARDIS with her bare hands, she finds it extremely meditative.

This is precisely the energy.

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https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66981924.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16963221914273&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

If I saw this on another site I would have thought it was satirical, but I don't think BBC News does Satire!

By: BBC News

Published: Oct 3, 2023

A degree in magic being offered in 2024 will be one of the first in the UK, the University of Exeter has said.

The "innovative" MA in Magic and Occult Science has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic", the course leader said.

It would offering an opportunity to study the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science, bosses said.

The one-year programme starts in September 2024.

Academics with expertise in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, sociology, psychology, drama, and religion will show the role of magic on the West and the East.

The university said it was one of the only postgraduate courses of its kind in the UK to combine the study of the history of magic with such a wide range of other subjects.

'Place of magic'

Prof Emily Selove, course leader, said: "A recent surge in interest in magic and the occult inside and outside of academia lies at the heart of the most urgent questions of our society.

"Decolonisation, the exploration of alternative epistemologies, feminism and anti-racism are at the core of this programme."

The course will be offered in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

Prof Selove said: "This MA will allow people to re-examine the assumption that the West is the place of rationalism and science, while the rest of the world is a place of magic and superstition."

The university said the course could prepare students for careers in teaching, counselling, mentoring, heritage and museum work, work in libraries, tourism, arts organisations or the publishing industry, among other areas of work.

A choice of modules includes dragons in western literature and art, the legend of King Arthur, palaeography, Islamic thought, archaeological theory and practice and the depiction of women in the Middle Ages.

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I mean, it could have been quite good, the history of magic; the effect on human imagination and storytelling; magic in literature and art; magic as metaphor for what we don't know, a stand-in for science; the evolution of societal perceptions of magic through the growth of the scientific method; the role of magic and revelation in early epistemological (truth claims) processes... this could have been a fascinating course.

Then they had to ruin it by stuffing it full of intersectional Gender Studies horseshit and making it ideologically corrupt and completely academically worthless. Except to piss off daddy, who's paying the bill.

This is the exact kind of luxury course that only bored, privileged, upper-middle class people with no real problems or ambition would take. If you take it, you have nothing better to do, and no ambition to better your future prospects. It's low-effort, academically shallow, fosters undeserved moral elitism, but still takes in tuition fees, so it's unsurprising that it exists.

You'd be getting loan forgiveness for it over my dead body, though.

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Sealed with Love: Bringing Back the Magic of Handwritten Notes

Before texts and emojis, love was written in ink. From Lupercalia to Tagore, the handwritten love letter has carried passion across centuries. This Valentine’s Day, let’s revive the romance of words on paper. ❤️✍️ #LoveLetters

As Valentine’s Day approaches, lovers worldwide prepare to express their affection through digital messages, gifts, and grand gestures. Yet, beneath the modern-day commercial spectacle lies an age-old tradition that once defined love and longing—the handwritten letter. In an era dominated by instant communication, have we lost something irreplaceable in abandoning pen and paper? From the Wolves…

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Sanchipat Books : A Cultural Treasure of Assam সাঁচিপাতৰ পুথি

Discovering the Ancient Art of Sanchipat Books: সাঁচিপাতৰ পুথি A Cultural Treasure of Assam Introduction In the heart of Assam, nestled along the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River, lies a rich tradition of crafting books that predates modern printing methods. These ancient manuscripts, known as Sanchipat books, are a testament to the ingenuity and artistic prowess of the Assamese people.…

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213729 Fine Arts Research & Development: Honors ⋆ WEEK 6

I'm fascinated with post-human music. Post-humanism is the decentralization of humans from the equation, shifting the focus away from us. In sound, I like to use the phrase 'Auto Audio Art' to describe it, and have even considered making some 'A.A.A' myself for this semester's studies, which you can see on my holiday sketch page:

After learning (from Mike Bridgman, no less) of the existence of metallic paint that could transmit midi signals on contact, I got ideas. One such concept was cheese granular, a malaphor of 'cheese grater' and 'granular synthesis', which involved me grating cheese over a MIDI-painted table, with notes playing based on wherever the cheese lands.

I took some notes during our impromptu talk:

keyboard main board / controller instead of midi multi output keyboard

"it's not easy"

Arduino might be a way for just a couple of switches, it might be a tutorial away

talk to workshops top of block 1 has an electronics workshop not sure who controls that, talk to technicians

talk to Mike Bridgman for possible hiring out a mac mini could possibly be lent mac (same form factor as mac mini but pc)

mike has mic go figure and perchance a better set of speakers/ monitors speaker stand

tested the speaker and mixer setup tried by routing it to my laptop speaker instead of monitor and also into the mixer with not output dawg I think the speaker is the problem

"it was in the trash for a reason"

IF NO SPEAKER MATCHES FORM FACTOR buy cheap t-amp (a digital class amplifier) that offer twelve volt power supply for building a speaker also you can hook it to a passive speaker designed for battery packs/low power setups/high response speakers Eugene has plenty for lending

not difficult to build speaker into the sculpture with t amp and speaker

he also has speakers with a stand and even a non broken version of my speaker! Except the stand might not even go to 2 metres, let alone 3

He has a bluetooth speaker, which is lighter and can be 'cradled' by the head, i'll have to check if my laptop outputs it

Giant midi pedal: button You can open up a big midi button and replace the switch

Footswitch with multiple buttons and put where hand is Philips blutooth

The other day, my mum sent me a letter.

Inside, she'd attached a New Yorker article about sound artist William Basinski, the composer behind the Disintegration Loops; which I've thrown in as a little extra source.

With Eugene and Mike's advice in mind, I got to searching for a good two-button setup for my sculpture. Finding a decently-priced MIDI pedal was easier said than done however - and while I could just buy two cheap keyboard pedals, the cost, along with the hassle of returning it if it didn't work, put me off it.

So I looked for a two-key keyboard instead, and yeah, that was quick.

Thanks to the popular rhythm video game OSU, two-key keyboards are a surprisingly common find on the online market! Who knew that people not going outside could contribute to society this much?

And now for some fine literature.

When it comes to books about sampling in the Massey Library database, no other fit the search quite like Eduardo Navas' Remix Theory. I borrowed myself a copy a few weeks back, but only really sat down with it 'now' - a term I use loosely.

Remix Theory is first and foremost, dedicated to the remix - the sample is discussed, no doubt - although what Navas defines as 'Remix' goes far beyond the limits of music. This is accompanied by a plethora of graphs and diagrams - ripped straight from Navas' own remixtheory.net website.

I find a lot of these graphs to come across as rather anecdotal, as they define specific stages of 'mechanical reproduction' [m.r.] and 'remix' over the past 200 years through a lens either too broad [photomontage as a whole being a 'stage of m.r./sampling], (Navas 18) or too specific [dub culture onwards being the 'first stage in remix'] (Navas 21).

To understand the 'Remix' as Navas does is to reassess your perception of reality, with the 'Remix' being the unifying glue to existing:

A playlist on your phone is a remix. (Navas 27)

A photograph is, due to the framing and visual reproduction of a specific window of something that is now ontologically different than it was when the photo was taken, a remix.

You are a remix of your parents.

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it just gets remixed.

Now that were on the same logical-endpoint-waveform, it's pretty easy to see how the work I'm making is quite holistically a Remix.

The interacting audience is placed in an active role of remixing themselves, or alternatively, enact my computer to remix for them. Beyond this, my choice of recycled cardboard for constructing garners a new meaning, as I've now remixed cardboard from various different locations/purposes to be used and re-defined in a single sculpture.

So how is sampling defined in Remix Theory?

"...the principle of sampling at its most basic level had been at play as a cultural activity well before its common use in music during the 1970s." (Navas 11) "Early recording, in essence, is a form of sampling from the world that may not appear as such to those used to the conventional terms in which the concepts of recording and sampling are understood." "...sampling favors fragmentation over the whole." "Recording is a form of sampling because it derives from the concept of cutting a piece from a bigger whole."

The namesake of the current exhibition at Adam Art Gallery, Things are, they do not happen, is attributed in the associated pamphlet to Mexican poet Octavio Paz. "He is referring to the way a painting is unable to reveal the action of its making, or the unfolding of time outside of its frame."(Clifford 1)

"At the time of this writing, sampling is [understood as] copying in material form [...] from a pre-existing recording. This principle of sampling, which became popular in the 1970s with DJ producers of disco and eventually hip-hop, is a meta-activity that follows early forms of sound capturing. Early sound recordings, with a similar approach as photography's, were also tools used to copy (sample) from the world." "In current times the latter becomes a default state with the computer: to sample means to copy/cut & paste. Most importantly, this action is the same for image, sound and text. In this sense, the computer is a sampling machine: from a wide cultural point of view, the ultimate remixing tool." (Navas 14-15)

"Music sampling was a transitional period toward privileging the fragment over the whole; and it is no accident that sampling in music became popular during the postmodern period. [...] While it was the medium of photography that came to define our relationship of the world through recorded (sampled) representations, this tendency would take its first major shift towards what is known today as modularity [...] in the explorations of composers, like Stockhausen, who with tape loops aesthetically alluded to what the computer actually does today. Tape loops run repeatedly until they are turned off, or fall apart from wear and tear; similarly, computers check themselves in loops in fractions of seconds to decide what to do at all times. Looping, or modular repetition is what defines media culture..." (Navas 30-31)

Thanks, mum. Turns out the source on William Basinski's tape loops you sent me had more connection to my research than I'd ever predicted.

Navas, Eduardo. Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. Austria, Ambra Verlag, 2012.

Clifford, Jess. Things Are, They Do Not Happen. 2025. Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, 2025.

It was now onto the body. I began by wrapping cardboard around a chair, then taped cardboard in a tesselating pattern gradually upwards. Following our chat, Mike had gifted me a Bluetooth speaker [editors note, the speaker had been removed from my space by Week 8, and was replaced with Em's smaller Bluetooth speaker] and I tested it out.

I entered a sort of zen with my making process, and this was facilitated greatly by my tape gun.

It didn't matter if it got crooked - I would keep it as such, strengthen the frame, then keep building up...

...and up.... and up...

...to the point where you could sit inside it, as demonstrated by Ana!

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The Humble Egg: A Marvel of Nature and Nutrition

Eggs have been an essential part of our diets for thousands of years. They are pets for their versatility, affordability,y and nutritional rate. These small wonders are packed with nutrients and have many uses.

From their origins to their role in cooking eggs are special. this clause explores their account Structure health benefits and uses in the kitchen

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Eggs in Art and Symbolism

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