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Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori (TRS 109)

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEFFABLE FOREST

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Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a xenopoetic data/dada anthology that documents the activities of the artist collective The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds. The anthology results from an experimental approach to impersonal literary composition. Similar to surrealist definitions, but on the scale of a technical document, members of the Ministry—poets, musicians, novelists, painters, curators, artists, scientists, philosophers, and physicians—were asked to offer a microfiction, poem, essay, fictional citation, or computer code, in the form of a footnote or annotation to a glitch-generated novel by iconoclastic Japanese artist Kenji Siratori; however, each participant wrote their contribution without any access to or knowledge about the nature of Siratori’s source text. After collecting the contributions, the “footnotes” were each algorithmically linked to an arbitrary word from Siratori’s novel. The result is a work of xenopoetic emergence: a beautifully absurd, alien document scintillating with strange potency. Bringing together algorithmically and AI-generated electronic literature with analogue collage and traditional modes of literary composition, the Ministry refuses to commit solely to digital, automated, or analogue art and instead seeks technological mutualism and a radically alien future for the arts. Accompanied by a groundbreaking original score by electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, the anthology offers the radical defamiliarization and weird worlds of science fiction, but now the strangeness bites back on the level form. Readers should expect to discover strange portals from which new ways of thinking, feeling, and being emerge. A conceptual and experimental anthology, Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori inaugurates collective xenopoetic writing and the conceit that the future of art will consist of impersonal acts of material emergence, not personal expression. Consume with caution.

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AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Rosaire Appel, Louis Armand, David Barrick, Gary Barwin, Steve Beard, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Mike Bonsall, Peter Bouscheljong, Maria Chenut, Shane Jesse Christmas, Roy Christopher, Tabasco “Ralph” Contra, Mike Corrao, R.J. Dent, Paul Di Filippo, Zak Ferguson, Colin Herrick, S.C. Hickman, Maxwell Hyatt, Justin Isis, Andrew Joron, Chris Kelso, Phillip Klingler, Adam Lovasz, Daniel Lukes , Ania Malinowska, Claudia Manley, Ryota Matsumoto, Michael Mc Aloran, Andrew McLuhan, Jeff Noon, Jim Osman, Suarjan Prasai, Tom Prime , David Leo Rice, Virgilio Rivas, David Roden, B.R. Yeager, Andrej Shakowski , Aaron Schneider, Gary J. Shipley, Kenji Siratori , Sean Smith, Kristine Snodgrass, Sean Sokolov, Alan Sondheim, Simon Spiegel, Henry Adam Svec, Jeff VanderMeer, R.G. Vasicek, Andrew C. Wenaus, William Wenaus, Eileen Wennekers, Christina Marie Willatt, Saywrane Alfonso Williams, D. Harlan Wilson, Andrew Wilt

early September release

#kenji siratori #gary j shipley #david roden #jeff noon #jeff vandermeer #b.r. yeager #d. harlan wilson

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wildardsfansite · 2 years ago

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winningthesweepstakes · 2 years ago

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The Really Rotten Princess and the Wonderful Wicked Class Play by Lady Cecily Snodgrass, illustrated by Mike Lester

The Really Rotten Princess and the Wonderful Wicked Class Play by Lady Cecily Snodgrass, illustrated by Mike Lester. Simon Spotlight, 2022. 9781534486171 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Paperback Beginning Reader in graphic novel format Genre: Fantasy/Humor What did you like about the book? When the Really Rotten Princes (Regina) does not get the leading role in…

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jaysterg5 · 3 years ago

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Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad

Editor - George R. R. Martin

Authors - George R. R. Martin, Stephen Leigh, John J. Miller, Leanne C. Harper, Gail Gerstner-Miller, Walton Simons, Edward Bryant, Lewis Shiner, Victor W. Milan, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt, Kevin Andrew Murphy, and Carrie Vaughn

Cover - Michael Komarck

The World Health Organization sends a group of politicians, aces, jokers and reporters on a junket around the world to discuss the ramifications and treatments of the Wild Card Virus. Several characters from previous volumes figure into this collection as do some new ones. There is never a dull moment as this group faces new highs and lows along the way.

Honestly, I was a bit disappointed in this book. I truly enjoyed some of the stories, and found others a chore to get through. I know this can be the case with any collection of short fiction, but the previous volumes were all pretty uniform and higher quality. The latter half of the book kind of rescued the earlier portion. While Leanne Harper's previous contributions were high water marks, I found "Blood Rites" to be tough to get through. I was excited by the new characters and the environment, but it just never really developed for me and I got bogged down in the mire of characters I didn't care about. While the ending was important and had a lasting impact on the series, I felt that I was just happy to be moving on. Similarly, I had issues with Victor Milan's entry, "Puppets." It's another pivotal story, but I had issues with the writing and I found most of the new characters irritating or just unlikable.

Melinda Snodgrass put forth an excellent effort in her story by deepening Doctor Tachyon even more than her previous stories. It's amazing how she has taken this character through so much in so few pages. Walton Simons and Gail Gerstner-Miller did excellent work in developing some new characters and making their stories very engaging. I also really enjoyed the bridging pieces in this book - particularly the diary entries from "Mayor of Jokertown" Xavier Desmond. He's been present in all the previous volumes, but we were never really able to see him in full light until now. A truly excellent part of the book.

In the edition I read there were two new stories add in 2014 by Kevin Andrew Murphy and Carrie Vaughn. Both were solid entries in the book and fleshed out characters that would otherwise have only been brief mentions in this book. Troll is a gentle giant that is often judged by his monstrous appearance, and Lady Black is a government agent who's mere touch can kill. Intriguing characters that should have more done with them down the line.

There's a lot of set up in this book for the rest of the "cycle" of Wild Cards. Heroic and villainous characters, mysteries, and big action seem to be on the way for this universe. Even though this installment wasn't my favorite, I have high hopes for the rest of this cycle and look forward to reading more.

#wild cards #george r r martin #melinda snodgrass #stephen leigh #john j miller #leanne harper #gail gerstner miller #walton simons #edward bryant #lewis shiner #victor milan #michael cassutt #kevin andrew murphy #carrie vaughn #michael komarck #short fiction #tor books

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derangedrhythms · 3 years ago

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Hi! do you have any poems/quotes that are about being in love with someone who isn't real?

Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"At times I hardly can believe in you. / Except this ache, / this longing in my gut, / this emptiness which theorizes you"

— Erica Jong, Half-Lives; from ‘The Evidence’

"Though dreams can be deceiving / Like faces are to hearts / They serve for sweet relieving / When fantasy and reality lie too far apart"

— Fiona Apple, 'Slow Like Honey'

"I don’t know why the hell I’m writing you. I must like to, or something. I think I pretend you are real."

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters; to W. D. Snodgrass, c. 11th February 1959

"I’m building memories on things we have not said"

— Fiona Apple, 'The First Taste'

"You’ve fallen in love with someone that doesn’t exist."

— Sarah Kane, Complete Plays; from ‘Crave’

"The idea of you is a part of my mind..."

— Willa Cather, from 'My Ántonia'

"I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, / even / though we've never met."

"I love you, but one or both of us is/are fictional."

— Kim Addonizio, Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; from 'Forms of Love'

" … I love you. I wish we were real."

— Anne Sexton, from ‘A Self-Portrait in Letters’

"I dread the loss of her I’ve never touched / love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears / I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak / I miss a woman who was never born / I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet"

— Sarah Kane, Complete Plays; from '4:48 Psychosis'

"Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, for death does not prevent the beloved from having lived. That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination."

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace; from 'Love', tr. Emma Crawford

#compilations #(i think i made you up inside my head)

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oxfordpaws · 3 years ago

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Oxford Paws members

since i dont wanna venture into maincord and you cant flute to them, also since the wiki is down for maintenance

Lineup

Milli Kalette Umi Furnace Rodreguez Internet* Palomo Relish Lyra Hirsch Mia Malackey Ralph Yuniesky Ilhan Markow Oliver Nettle Dexter Snodgrass

Rotation

Eris Zoobrambana Viola Fightcastle Mambo Maybane Leach Ingram* Ephraim Skagerrak Simon Tankris

Shadows (incomplete because i cant flute to them or apple see it)

Dabney Reeves Caim Succotash Hans Atkinson Jocobus Harper** Tybal Dotcom Doc Scrollbar Buster McCoy Ennead Prettygood Buck Bimblebottom Pigeon Selach

*the two survivors of the breath mints **sent by the millennials

#blaseball #Oxford paws

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sciencespies · 4 years ago

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Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love

https://sciencespies.com/nature/cicadas-are-delightful-weirdos-you-should-learn-to-love/

Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love

Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has collected cicadas, those bizarre and misunderstood cyclical insects, for four years.

“In Illinois, we have 20 species, and hardly anything is known about them,” Alleyne says. “We know very little about what they’re doing underground.”

Cicadas have a longstanding reputation as loud, swarming pests that keep obnoxiously particular schedules. In the United States, they got a bad rap from the beginning, as early colonists misidentified these clouds of emerging cicadas as locusts. “They were thought of as a biblical plague,” says John Cooley, an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut. That impression has been a lasting one: a group of cicadas is still referred to as a plague or a cloud. “The question I get the most is ‘How do I kill them?’” Cooley says.

Chris Simon, an entomologist with more than 40 years of experience working with cicadas, says that feeling has changed—somewhat. “Some people freak out,” she says. “But the other half…they take their kids out, they go watch [periodical cicadas] come out of their shells. They think it’s amazing.” As another group of cicadas awakens in some U.S. states this spring, experts still have much to learn about them. What we do know, however, is that they are delightfully weird, and researchers across the sciences are studying these creatures to answer big human challenges.

Cicada moulting while attached to a curtain in Marianne Alleyne’s basement.

(Marianne Alleyne)

Prime weirdness

Cicadas spend the majority of their lives underground. They spend years developing into adults before they can emerge to sing, mate and lay eggs. For a majority of the nearly 3,400 cicada species, that emergence happens every two to five years and can vary from cycle to cycle. The strange periodical cicadas, on the other hand, are very different.

Periodical cicadas like Magicicicada spend 13 or 17 years underground, and millions of them surface together. To make sense of it all, biologists classify the periodicals into one of 15 existing “broods” based on their species, location, and—importantly—which years they emerge. This year, for example, Brood IX is emerging in North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia for the first time since 2003.

Once cicadas do emerge, the sheer volume can be overwhelming. Some people wake up to find millions of cicadas blanketing nearby cars, trees, and houses. According to Cooley, when male cicadas sing in a full chorus on a hot sunny day, they immerse you in sound from every direction. “It’s the most unusual sensation,” he says. Many species sound pleasant, but the periodical cicadas “are like a jet engine or a buzz-saw.” Only a handful of weeks after emerging, the chorus fades away with the cicadas. They leave behind only calories for their predators, nutrients for the soil, and eggs destined to repeat their multi-year cycle.

But why do cicadas emerge in 13- and 17-year cycles, anyway? One hypothesis with much buzz among mathematicians is that it’s because both numbers are prime; the theory goes that the cycles prevent specialized predators from springing up. Cicadas are easy prey. They’re not hard to catch, Cooley says, and “anything that can catch ‘em will eat ‘em.” But predators, such as foxes or owls, whose populations cycle up and down every one to ten years can’t sync up with such irregular prey.

Cooley sees the merits of the hypothesis but is skeptical. Of the thousands of cicada species, only a handful are periodical. If pressure from predators was exceptional enough to make these species periodical, then why aren’t all cicadas periodical? He says we just don’t know.

“This work has been characterized by a hell of a lot of surprises,” Cooley says. “Every time you come up with a great idea for why [cicadas] are periodical, it’s pretty easy to just blow a hole in it. And they do have specialized predators—fungus.”

1930 illustration of a 17-year Magicicada cicada

(Robert Evans Snodgrass)

Zombie cicadas

In recent years, researchers have unearthed peculiar and sometimes horrifying relationships between cicadas and fungi. Massospora fungi infect cicadas and hijack their bodies. The fungi can even synchronize to the cicada’s life cycle, staying dormant until the cicada is ready to emerge. Once active, they take over the bottom half of the cicada’s body while somehow keeping the cicada alive. The infected cicada flies away, spreading spores that infect future generations.

“Once the host is neutralized, it’s a walking zombie,” says Cooley, who was involved in the work. “It is the walking dead.”

That’s not the only fungus to wreak havoc on cicadas. Ophiocordyceps fungi also invade the underground cicada. But rather than keep the cicada alive, this fungal parasite coaxes its host to crawl upwards towards the forest floor and die. With nothing in its way, the fungus grows to sprout a mushroom out of the soil—all from within the cicada’s body.

Despite these wild parasites, cicadas are far from doomed. Recent research suggests some cicadas have flipped the script and domesticated their fungal parasites. Rather than turning into a fungal flowerpot for the parasitic Ophiocordyceps, a few species live symbiotically with the parasite. The fungus gets a home and probably provides the cicada with essential nutrients in return. This has happened in species all over the world, but the origin of this arrangement is a mystery.

Simon says this fungal relationship is currently her lab’s major project. “Maybe it’s the fungus that decided to give up its parasitic ways and live inside a comfy cicada.”

Massaspora cicada

(Wiki Commons / TelosCricket under Creative Commons 4.0)

Endlessly adapting

While periodical cicada broods are enormous and remarkably synchronized, once in a while some “stragglers” do come out early. In 2017, for example, periodical cicadas clouded the East coast four years early. This May, Brood XIX crashed the party ahead of schedule, too, leaving scientists curious as to whether climate change has played a role. “We’ve predicted that the warmer it is, the more we’re going to see these four-year accelerations,” Simon says. If these 17-year stragglers keep emerging early, they may permanently synchronize to a 13-year cycle.

Or perhaps they will change in more unexpected ways. Because 17-year cicadas are so abundant, their fussiness makes them living, breathing gauges for the environment. “They’re sitting down there integrating 17 years’ worth of data on what the forest is doing,” Cooley says. “And if the forest is screwed up or broken, that’s going to show up.”

Cicadas develop differently in cities, too. In 2018, a group led by DeAnna Beasley at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga showed that urban cicadas grow larger. Urban areas use more fertilizer, and their concrete and population density turn them into “heat islands” that can be 5 degrees warmer than rural areas—stimulating conditions for these insects. (Cicadas develop faster with more warmth and nutrients.)

But it’s not yet possible to conclude how (or if) climate change threatens cicadas. Since historical data isn’t as reliable as current data—Cooley says that scientists are essentially still establishing the starting point. “So if we want to be able to consider these to be indicators of forest health, we’ve got to do the legwork to figure out what normal is.”

Learning from cicadas

Scientists have been looking to cicadas to solve human-sized problems. That’s because cicadas’ late-life wings are covered in a natural engineering marvel: minuscule uniform nanopillars that repel water, kill bacteria and self-clean. The germ-killing wings inspire chemists and engineers who want to harness these properties.

Some try to design these nanopillars as glare-free, self-cleaning surfaces for solar panels. Others, like Susan Kelleher, a chemist at University College Dublin, were captivated by the antibacterial surfaces. “Controlling cell behavior is not only so interesting but essential for biomedical science,” Kelleher says. “The next step is to translate what we learn from the natural world, into a scalable and manufacturable material.”

For years, engineers have focused only on the dimensions of the wing patterns. Recently, though, Marianne Alleyne’s team of biologists, chemists and engineers looked deeper. They published evidence that specific chemical compounds secreted by cicadas are essential to building and maintaining those ingenious nanopillars. The work shows that for those seeking to design technology with cicada-inspired antibacterial traits, it’s not enough to mimic what the cicadas look like—the secrets lay deeper. Revealing those secrets, Alleyne says, means working with biologists to actually learn how these mysterious cicadas build what they build.

“Sometimes the engineers can go like, ‘we can make this better, we can do it in a clean room’,” Alleyne says. “But insects can make this material out of nothing, right? Maybe we can be inspired to do it that way.”

When she goes out to collect cicadas, Alleyne makes a point to bring the engineering students along. All the collected nymphs wind up in Alleyne’s basement. Overnight, they inch their way up the curtain and spread their wings. “Now and then, one of them mysteriously disappears, and that’s when my family is not happy with me. ” Alleyne says. “But it’s all for science.”

#Nature

#06-2020 Science News #2020 Science News #Earth Environment #earth science #Environment and Nature #Nature Science #News Science Spies #Our Nature #outrageous acts of science #planetary science #Science #Science Channel #science documentary #Science News #Science Spies #Science Spies News #Space Physics & Nature #Space Science #Nature

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littlebugsboy · 9 months ago

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The stacking cats

#harry potter magic awakened #hpma #hpma mc #hpma oc #simon snodgrass #sunny #oliver smith #hpma daniel #daniel page #cats #silly cars #digital art #art #the sillies

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big-gentle-troll · 5 months ago

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Hey, it's Eli. Do you know what Omegaverse is? I'm still really confused

#harry potter magic awakened #hpma oc #magic awakened oc #Simon Snodgrass #ask blog #ask me anything #rp blog

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itunesbooks · 6 years ago

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Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle - George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust

Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle (Book Two of the Rox Triad) George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust Genre: Adventure Price: $9.99 Expected Publish Date: April 30, 2019 Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Seller: Macmillan Soon to be a show on Hulu! Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot , with the co-editor of Wild Cards , Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer. George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards classic adventure, in trade paperback for the first time: a dangerous superpowered gang rises to power and threatens the citizens of New York City Bloat, the boy-governor of the Rox, wanted to make Ellis Island a safe haven for Jokers, and made a choice to recruit the Jumpers, superpowered teen outcasts who could steal a man's body in the blink of an eye. But under the leadership of Dr. Tachyon's psychotic grandson, the Jumpers grow more vicious and uncontrollable every day, becoming the greatest threat the Wild Cards have ever faced.... Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Jokertown Shuffle features the writing talents of Walton Simons, Chris Claremont, Lewis Shiner, William F. Wu, Victor Milan, Stephen Leigh, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and John Jos. Miller, along with previously unpublished stories from Carrie Vaughn and Cherie Priest. The Wild Cards Universe The Original Triad #1 Wild Cards #2 Aces High #3 Jokers Wild The Puppetman Quartet #4: Aces Abroad #5: Down and Dirty #6: Ace in the Hole #7: Dead Man’s Hand The Rox Triad #8: One-Eyed Jacks #9: Jokertown Shuffle #10: Dealer’s Choice #11: Double Solitaire #12: Turn of the Cards The Card Sharks Triad #13: Card Sharks #14: Marked Cards #15: Black Trump #16: Deuces Down #17: Death Draws Five The Committee Triad #18: Inside Straight #19: Busted Flush #20: Suicide Kings The Fort Freak Triad #21: Fort Freak #22: Lowball #23: High Stakes The American Triad #24: Mississippi Roll #25: Low Chicago #26: Texas Hold 'Em At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. http://dlvr.it/R3mFHq

#Adventure

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