Oculus Dei

90:1 Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei cæli commorabitur.

2 Dicet Domino: Susceptor meus es tu et refugium meum; Deus meus, sperabo in eum.

3 Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero.

4 Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.

5 Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus: non timebis a timore nocturno;

6 a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et dæmonio meridiano.

7 Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis; ad te autem non appropinquabit.

8 Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis et retributionem peccatorum videbis.

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(Open this link in another window and come back to this post to contemplate the eye while Josquin Desprez' Motet for 24 voices "Qui Habitat" is playing)

Locaute: the bureaucrats are coming!

Πάλινδρóμος

[Guy Debord, "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" (1978)]

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Precious

[Une ruelle, Abraham Bosse (1602-1672)]

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Les demoiselles de ce temps
Ont depuis peu beaucoup d'amants;
On dit qu'il n'en manque à personne,
L'année est bonne.

Nous avons vu les ans passés
Que les galants étaient glacés;
Mais maintenant tant en foisonne,
L'année est bonne.

Le temps n'est pas bien loin encor
Qu'ils se vendaient au poids de l'or,
Et pour le présent on les donne,
L'année est bonne.

Le soleil de nous rapproché
Rend le monde plus échauffé;
L'amour règne, le sang bouillonne,
L'année est bonne.

[Poésies 1649, Vincent Voiture]

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The Bonneville Salt Flats

Imagine a place so flat you seem to see the curvature of the planet, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist. Imagine the passing thunder of strange vehicles hurtling by on a vast dazzling white plain. This is not an alien world far from earth; it is Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats.

the day of the triffids

Triffids are plants capable of rudimentary animal-like behaviour:

they feed on decomposing meat, are able to uproot themselves
and move about on their three "legs", possess a deadly whip-like
poisonous sting capable of killing those struck, and appear to
communicate with each other. [o][o][o]

Kwik en Flupke

Porque o segredo de Gag de Pleg Bog está algures entre as páginas da revista Tintim.

specchio

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.
Yasunara Kawabata The Snow Country.
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Et d'ailleurs Derrida...

D'origine juive, il subit la répression liée aux événements de la fin des années 1930. Il connaît, durant sa jeunesse, une scolarité mouvementée. Il voit les métropolitains comme oppresseurs et normatifs, normalisateurs et moralisateurs. Sportif, il participe à de nombreuses compétitions sportives et rêve de devenir footballeur professionnel. Mais c'est aussi à cette époque qu'il découvre et lit des philosophes et écrivains comme Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, André Gide et Albert Camus.



In a candid interview in 1991, when he was 60, Jacques Derrida let the cat out of the bag. For all his academic achievements and popular acclaim, his abiding dream for himself remained that of his youth "becoming a professional footballer." In this mere aside, Derrida revealed as much about himself as both philosopher and person (if they can be separated) as in almost all his voluminous writings, speeches, reviews, and interviews. How fitting, therefore, that this passing remark should take us from the expressive margin into the subversive heart of this man of thought and reveal him as a frustrated man of action; the philosophical life was only a consolation for a more fulfilled life as sporting hero. Yet, in so many ways, so much can be learned and understood about the Derridean oeuvre by treating its author as a footballer, as someone who plied his trade on the fields of sporting endeavour than in the classrooms and libraries of the world. Indeed, if Derrida had played football, both philosophy and life might have been the better for it. Not because he would have spared the world his philosophical interrogations, but because he might have made even more of an impression on the sensibilities and senses of his times. It is as a footballer of attacking flair, not as an intellectual of defensive legend, that I will remember Derrida best. While it is hard to imagine the suave Derrida in the garishly-coloured synthetic shirt of his favourite team with a number "7" and "Derrida" emblazoned on the back, there is a genuine excitement at the prospect of him tantalising and tormenting the opposition in his own version of "the beautiful game." He knew that those who knew nothing of football knew nothing of life.
[in: Allan C. Hutchinson, If Derrida HadPlayed Football see full article here]

La nascita della Filosofia II

ou: À la recherche du temps perdu

Campeão do campeonato de França de futebol em 1936 e vice-campeão em 1961 e 62, o Racing de Paris - Racing Club de France participa, actualmente, na segunda divisão do campeonato francês amador.

Furitas

Reuters

Memory

About Dr. Osamu Tezuka and this film

DNA computer vs Quantum computer

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30. The phenomenal world does not exist; it is a hypostasis of the information processed by the Mind.
31. We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

[ Tractates Cryptica Scriptura - Exegesis from the novel VALIS by Philip K. Dick 1981]

Vieilles gloires hongroises

Les Sárközy de Nagy-Bòcsa

[Bòcsa, na província de Bács-Kiskun, sul da Hungria]

L’étymologie du terme racaille n’est pas clairement définie. Pour Auguste Brachet la terminologie s’appuie sur le diminutif du radical rac qui est d’origine germanique (racker en allemand pour désigner un "équarrisseur") et dont on trouve une trace dans le vieil anglais rack. Racaille serait un mot formé sur le même principe que canaille canis ("chien") et que l’on propose souvent en synonyme. Pour Albert Dauzat, ce serait une forme normano-picarde qui aurait la même racine que l’ancien français rasche ou rache ("teigne") du latin vulgarisé rasicare ("gratter"). Ainsi trouverait-on une trace de ce terme dans le provençal rascar ("racler") ou raca ("rosse", "chien"), et même dans la Bible sous la forme raca (Mathieu, 5, 22 : « Mais moi, je vous dis que quiconque se met en colère contre son frère mérite d'être puni par les juges ; que celui qui dira à son frère : Raca ! mérite d'être puni par le sanhédrin ») où il tient lieu d’insulte.

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Tulpen vanitas

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Some essential oils, both in solution and in vapour, cause rapid inflection, others have no such power; those which I tried were all poisonous.

Diluted alcohol (one part to seven of water) is not poisonous, does not induce inflection, nor increase the sensitiveness of the glands to mechanical irritation. The vapour acts as a narcotic or anaesthetic, and long exposure to it kills the leaves.

[txt: Charles Darwin - Insectivorous Plants]

Lowbrow

"Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste. A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable. Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer a sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea . . . To snare a sensibility in words, especially one that is alive and powerful, one must be tentative and nimble. The form of jottings, rather than an essay (with its claim to a linear, consecutive argument), seemed more appropriate for getting down something of this particular fugitive sensibility."
[Susan Sontag, Notes on "Camp", 1964]

Ilus: Mark Ryden, The Meat Magi, 1997, Oil on canvas, 20" x 24" (+)