Comments for State of Matter

Comment on Time Heist by Selection as Artistic Act – State of Matter

Selection as Artistic Act – State of Matter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:41:51 +0000

[…] in ten years, with a future us saying: this is not so; it was never meant to be so. Read Carloff (Time Heist), who writes about the present being continuously botched up by knowledge that things will reset. […]

Comment on Discovery and Defence of the New by Selection as Artistic Act – State of Matter

Selection as Artistic Act – State of Matter — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:33:27 +0000

[…] at the oddities even in this scale, in its repetitions, its frictions and its slippages. In the previous post, I had mentioned that I would implicate Auster when discussing our engagement with speculation. It […]

Comment on Discovery and Defence of the New by “And Then?” A Kind-Of-Review – State of Matter

“And Then?” A Kind-Of-Review – State of Matter — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:08:44 +0000

[…] detailing our criteria for selecting stories for State of Matter. I would start, as I did in the last post, with the movie Ratatouille and the problematics of time when we encounter something ‘novel’. […]

Comment on Slowly Through the Middle-Distance by Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter

Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:16:47 +0000

[…] want to mark that this instant has thrown up before any of that a disorienting effect (see Timss, Slowly Through the Middle Distance). Can we discuss if this renders us unhinged, forces us into the wind desperate for solid ground? […]

Comment on Sublime Terrain and others by Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter

Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:56:46 +0000

[…] the future, again and again. They force us to reckon with “words as riparian forms” (Mullins, Sublime Terrain) as a recent poet reminds us, and force us to immerse ourselves in the fluidity of the text and do […]

Comment on Speciating & Others by Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter

Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:51:34 +0000

[…] conditions have to be made for paranoia around a discovery. Perhaps in another one (see Changming, Speciating), conditions have to be made to understand first contact as memory of one’s origins. These are […]

Comment on The Stranger by Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter

Discovery and Defence of the New – State of Matter — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:48:29 +0000

[…] into our pasts and modify how we understand first contact. Perhaps in this piece, (see Morton, The Stranger), conditions have to be made for paranoia around a discovery. Perhaps in another one (see […]

Comment on The Bucket Fountain by Willing – Sarah Hozumi

Willing – Sarah Hozumi — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:57:53 +0000

[…] “The Bucket Fountain” […]

Comment on The Bucket Fountain by The Anchor – Sarah Hozumi

The Anchor – Sarah Hozumi — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:23:15 +0000

[…] “The Bucket Fountain” […]