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About a film. And different perceptions of reality.

About a film. And different perceptions of reality.

Sometimes realities are created. From expectations. Maybe through influences. Or simply by expectation and experience. And sometimes we are told about perspectives. But in truth they are realities. One is Elisabeth Sparkle’s in The Substance. The viewer has a completely different reality. Who, quite by chance, heard in October that the film had received an excellent rating. But what are ratings? The viewer’s reality. Maybe.

It could have been very good. And it was. The film. Up to a certain point, it tells of two different realities that intertwine and, after a certain point, also fight each other. People who are trapped in their own realities sometimes tend to fight. It was about another reality that the director maybe didn’t work out so well. Or she did, but it wasn’t visible. What is that reality, the struggle for youth in the face of the fact that we are all going to die? But that’s not what I wanted to write about. It’s not about the existentialism of the film or the question of metaphysics. It’s about dying. What is beautiful for the Japanese. And what has no place in our reality.

So what about the different realities in The Substance? Well, almost everything is about them. For people who believe in only one reality, it will still be exciting. People who are used to living with different realities will enjoy it.
And what about the reality of rating? Nothing. You shouldn’t be influenced by other people’s realities. See for yourself. At the cinema you trust.

This text is created by humans. The pics are not. 

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Eurorack Diaries

Eurorack Diaries

The subject matter of the diaries, experiments, and notes is as follows: Ultimately, these elements are what constitute the creation of art. Similarly, the images created by Alejandro M. Parisi illustrate not only the evolution of the subject matter, but also the progression of the artist’s style. These works not only reflect the artist’s language but also encapsulate the prevailing modes of thought in the present era.
In anticipation of nystada’s forthcoming album here (external link) we present the track “Click’n’Cut.” It is an album that is both intriguing and paradoxical, aligning with the complexities of the contemporary era.

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Of randomness. And improvisations. In the music.

On randomness. And improvisations. In the music.

Text by Zenvampires Collective
Pics by DALL•E

We wrote about this before. Here. The idea of the random depends on the idea of the order of what we perceive as reality. But since our perception of music is largely based on harmony (but also on what we are used to hearing, i.e. our aesthetic upbringing), it is perhaps easier to find an “order” in music.

Adding to this by chance… yes… can lead to better results than, for example, in mathematics (even if we can speak of orders and harmonies there, too). 

Aleatoric music can therefore sound disturbing. But only if our order does not coincide with the order of chance. In other words, when our idea of, let’s say, reality does not match the musician’s. When we hear… unusual sounds, we may find the piece of music disturbing. Like when we turn on a radio and then quickly turn it off. 

We recently attended an improvised music festival. Interestingly, the same question arises here. Of course I can sit in the audience and listen to the improvised music with interest. Even if it disturbs me in some way, I listen because I don’t want to be considered uneducated. There are also group effects. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks the music is bad. And I start to question myself. 

The question that arises for me is what inspired the artist to improvise. Is his inspiration (the music to Ascenseur pour l’échafaud is quite acceptable, even if it is largely improvised) compatible with my order, my reality? Or are there small inconsistencies? 

Because that’s the point. Not only in the music we hear, but nevertheless. About different realities. Maybe we don’t have to go as far as Viveiros de Castro, who said that we will never understand the other. But maybe it’s true. And we will never understand each other.

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Wars

Wars

Text by Zenvampires
Pics by Copilot

Basically, we were hoping that we would never have to write articles like this again. We actually had something else prepared for yesterday (today). But then it didn’t seem appropriate.

1. The Information

As we have already written here, the war is about banning our free speech. But it is more than that. On this past anniversary. Someone once said that the most interesting thing about war is information. On the other hand, we humans tend to follow simple (sometimes not so simple, but emotionally very obvious) descriptions of new experiences. Interestingly, we also tend to take sides without remembering the context of the outbreak. 

2. Contexts

It would be too easy to say that this creates simpler descriptions. We create ones that we are convinced are better for us. In one conflict or another. Since truth is always what we imagine it to be, our beliefs appear to be true. Contexts are no longer perceived. And some then show what…. ?

3. The Information

This is not about reassembling information. Nor is it about setting things right. Others are responsible for that. It’s perhaps more about ending heated debates (it’s amazing that we debate about right and wrong instead of finding out about the fate of the abductees). To go through the whole story again and make sure that we know what happened a year ago. And if this story started a year ago or not. Or maybe thousands of years ago. Like all wars. 

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Turn on the radio

Turn on the radio

Turn on the radio and quickly turn it off again.
On the one hand, it sounds like an experiment. Perhaps a way of playing the Fluxus movement. Like aleatoric music that selects sounds at random. Maybe that’s what it is.
On the other hand, this experiment can elude our expectations, i.e. our idea of the previous world. Turning the radio on and off after we have heard the first tone is something unusual.
It was Paul Watzlawick who said (I’ll abbreviate it here) that we have a certain idea of reality and subordinate reality to this idea.
So a Zen exercise? That’s what it looks like. But perhaps also fun. Which is boring. We turned the radio on and off. Very quickly.

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By the way. Tomorrow (23.09.2024) from 17:00 you can watch a program on aleatoric music here (external link). The program will also feature tracks by a member of the Zenvampire Collective. Have fun

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Malta24

Koniec lata

O ile dobrze sobie przypominam. to właśnie Rorty pisał o różnicy i powtórzeniu. Z tym że właśnie te małe przesunięcia, drobne różnice były ważne. Przesunięcia owe, różnice między powtórzeniami są nie tylko poststrukturalistyczną zabawą, przeklętym postmodernizmem. Są jednocześnie dyskursem z fenomenem strukturalistycznym, w którym podobieństwa były ważne. Ale w przesunięciach nie chodzi o różnice. A właśnie o co? O przesunięcia… O to, że jedno lato nie jest jak inne. I że każdy festiwal, nawet ten powracający, nie jest jak inny. Malta zawsze wyróżniała się tymi przesunięciami. I zawsze była ciekawa. Nie tylko dla poststrukturalistów. Program tutaj (external link): https://malta-festival.pl/

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Android Dialogues

Android Dialogues

Philip K. Dick wondered if androids dream of sheep. We don’t know. But we know what they talk about. And when they talk, we just listen. And we’re afraid. Like taking a step into the clouds.
Androids wrote the track. They helped master it. And maybe they’re listening to it. Or it’s not made for humans, it’s just part of the android metaphysics. Or maybe the Zenvampires Collective are just androids. But too many questions. Here’s the track.

 

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Metaphysics in Motion

Metaphysics in Motion

My point is not to defend metaphysics. It is not about whether it is useful to describe the world (well, it seems useful to me only in some posthumanist concepts, because it helps to question the limits of being human and to open new perspectives). Nor do I care about Paola-Ludovica Coriando’s question. Paola-Ludovica Coriando is a philosopher concerned with the future of metaphysics. But her question, of whether metaphysics is still relevant in a postmodern world, remains unanswered here. For this is not about the future, but about perspective. And a question.

1. The Perspective

Perspective is often deceptive. The funny thing is that when we study the source texts, we pay no attention to our perspective or the perspective of the time. It is a rather banal anthropological relativist position. But the devil is in the details. And precisely in the examination of what I personally understand by “being”. With the background of one God (and not several deities) and with the burden of Kant. Kant’s influence on metaphysics was enormous, as he explored the limits of the human mind and the conditions of the possibility of knowledge. His critique of traditional metaphysics led to a new way of thinking about being.

2. The postmodern era

Because that’s what we’re talking about. Maybe I’m reading Aristotle wrong (is it possible to read a book wrong? I learned from Derrida that you can read a book in different ways, that not only the reading itself but the reader can change the perspective), but here I find moving motifs. Derrida’s concept of deconstruction shows that texts can have many meanings, depending on the reader’s perspective. And here the question arises whether I want to “detach” myself from metaphysics or not. Rather, whether it describes the world for me, or whether I feel Aristotle aesthetically (and perhaps that is the only perspective we can take).

3. Idealism

And there we have the culprit. Perhaps. Kant turned metaphysics into a museum. Each concept has been neatly assigned a place. But thoughts are not buildings. They cannot serve well as a museum. Thoughts are tools. Hegel used dialectics to move thoughts, but he also succeeded in erecting an immovable statue, perhaps because of his style or because of the time or culture in which he lived. Kant’s systematic approach to metaphysics has often been perceived as rigid and inflexible. Hegel’s dialectic, on the other hand, was intended to bring movement and development to the world of thought but was often criticized for being complex and difficult to access.

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Monochrome metaphysics

Monochrome metaphysics

When I think about the passage of time, the process of time, I have to think about Aristotle. Maybe Heraclitus. And the fact that we live in the here and now. Here we pause for a moment in the ephemeral. And invite you on a journey into summer. 

All pics ©by Zenvampires

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Shit Happens Day and Night

Shit Happens Day and Night

Text ©by Marek Gajdziński
Pics by Copilot

“Listen to this,” she says, reading from the magazine she has been reading for the last hour or so. “Can Never go hand in hand with Always? Never, says Never. Always, says Always.”

She looks at him. He shows no interest. Instead, he continues reading a newspaper he has been reading for the last hour or so.

“Have you heard me?”

“Yes, I’ve heard you. What about it?”

“This was what they call flash literature or something, a short story called ‘Never Says Never, Always Says Always’.”

“Indeed, a very short one.”

“But don’t you think this funny?”

“I may think it stupid, if you really insist on my opinion.”

“Well then, hear this. The story was submitted to the editor of a certain literary magazine by a writer from Argentina. On the same day the editor received a very similar contribution from another writer from Iceland. This other story is tilted ‘Never Says Always, Always Says Never’ and reads: Can Never go hand in hand with Always? Never, says Always. Always, says Never.”

She looks at him. Again, he shows no interest.

 

“Have you heard me?”

“Yes, I’ve heard you.”

“And what do you say to this? Don’t you think this is, you know…”

“That’s the end?”

“Yes.”

“Well, then,” he stops reading what he has been reading and looks up at her, “I say there’s nothing to it”.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean this shit happens day and night, and will, till hell freezes over”.

He goes back to his newspaper. She looks at him as if she wanted to say something but finally decides otherwise and focuses on her magazine. They are both reading for some time. The silence grows.

Then he puts down the newspaper, gets up and leaves the room, heading for a bathroom or kitchen, who knows. While passing through the corridor, he suddenly freezes in an awkward position. He utters some hardly distinguishable sounds that may form a female name, or a part of it, “Barb”, or something. The woman hears the call and answers while reading on:

“Yes, David?”

He collapses to the floor. There he rests supine, undisturbed, unable and unwilling to produce any more sounds, his chest motionless for the first time in his life.

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