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| //Transcript of the talk by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney at [[http://www.designmarch.is/designtalks/|DesignTalks]], part of the [[http://www.designmarch.is/|Design March]] Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 14th of March 2013.// | //Transcript of the talk by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney at [[http://www.designmarch.is/designtalks/|DesignTalks]], part of the [[http://www.designmarch.is/|Design March]] Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 14th of March 2013.// |
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| <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/8567925759/" title="designMarch 2013 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8239/8567925759_61203c0912.jpg" width="500" height="325" alt="designMarch 2013"></a></html> | Before we begin we'd like to note that every word in our title is “beyond speech or thought or silence”. Therefore, we invite you to listen in between, behind and underneath everything we say. |
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| Before we begin we'd like to note that every word in our title is “beyond speech or thought or silence”. Therefore, we invite you to listen in between, behind and underneath everything we say. | |
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| I'm sure you know that any form of magick - like the future - is ultimately unknowable. We can try to explain, analyse and justify how magic works, but it will never be the same as experiencing its effects directly on your own skin. In today's materialist culture direct experiences tend to raise sceptical eyebrows, or be dismissed as archaic and all together irrelevant. However, such experience is able to take us outside of structured time and allow us to grasp our intrinsic interconnectedness with other beings and environments. It doesn't matter that we can't put it in words, we just know, that we are just this... | I'm sure you know that any form of magick - like the future - is ultimately unknowable. We can try to explain, analyse and justify how magic works, but it will never be the same as experiencing its effects directly on your own skin. In today's materialist culture direct experiences tend to raise sceptical eyebrows, or be dismissed as archaic and all together irrelevant. However, such experience is able to take us outside of structured time and allow us to grasp our intrinsic interconnectedness with other beings and environments. It doesn't matter that we can't put it in words, we just know, that we are just this... |
| <blockquote>The moment when sedentary systems begin oscillating | <blockquote>The moment when sedentary systems begin oscillating |
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| Thalience is an attempt to give nature a voice without that voice being ours in disguise.</blockquote> | Thalience is an attempt to give nature a voice without that voice being ours in disguise.((Karl Schroeder))</blockquote> |
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| "Reestablishing channels of direct communication with the planetary Other, the mind behind nature is the best hope for dissolving the steep walls of cultural inflexibility that appear to be channeling us toward true ruin. We need a new set of lenses to see our way into the world."</blockquote> | "Reestablishing channels of direct communication with the planetary Other, the mind behind nature is the best hope for dissolving the steep walls of cultural inflexibility that appear to be channeling us toward true ruin. We need a new set of lenses to see our way into the world."((T.McKenna))</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Minimise borders, maximise edges.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Minimise borders, maximise edges.((FoAM))</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>It is spoken of the sephiroth and the paths, of spirits and conjurations, of gods, spheres, and planes and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things, certain results follow.</blockquote> | <blockquote>It is spoken of the sephiroth and the paths, of spirits and conjurations, of gods, spheres, and planes and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things, certain results follow.((Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice))</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>A magical perspective sees non-apparent links and connections amidst an illusion of order, control, and restriction. An alternative worldview that summons the creative and prophetic power of the multitude.</blockquote> | <blockquote>A magical perspective sees non-apparent links and connections amidst an illusion of order, control, and restriction. An alternative worldview that summons the creative and prophetic power of the multitude.((Centre for Tactical Magic. http://www.tacticalmagic.org/CTM/thoughts/tactical%20magic%20text.htm)) </blockquote> |
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