Disruption

The Migration of Xmas

Credit: Coca Cola

The Xmas Spell Xmas isn’t my favourite time of year. It’s come, in fact, to be my least favourite time of year. I once celebrated the most magical aspects of the Santa trope, carrying on my parents’ tradition, arranging my kids’ stuffies while they slept around the fireplace, leaving ashen footprints of Santa having come […]

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Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza

Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza Holocaust genocide refugees,Naqbah Amalekh atrocities.IDF Hamas HezbollahJihad US Ayatollah. Great Britian imperialismapartheid Zionismethnic cleansinganti-semiticextremism. Islam Judaism,Liberation Yerushalayim,Sins of the fathers visited on the children.Transgenerational vengeance engine. Uzzi settlers burning olive treesbreeds revenge in helpless teens;torture, memory, Nazis:perpetual collective trauma machine. — One state two statesIslamic state Jewish stateState of constant

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Exploring The Mountain Within

Illustration by Daniel Hoernemann

Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way

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Truth is a Refugee

In reaction to my deep dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I remembered a song I wrote a while back called ‘Truth is a Refugee’, about wars, and truth. Just piano and vox. And I did my very best to bring it back, and made a recording on Saturday (special thanks to rj fleck for

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Notes on ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop

Nancy Stark Smith - Contact Improv

View ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop description POISE to be balanced or suspended; to be ready, a state of readiness; equally weighted, weight bearing, good ‘bearing’. A migratory translibrium. ComplexityStructural complexity vs/and Perceptual complexityI’m approaching complexity as an ‘experience’ we have, rather than an ‘objective phenomena out-there’.“Complex systems are defined by entangled

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