The Impermanent

Este trabajo está relacionado directamente con los conceptos de reflejo y espejo. Para ello, se recurrió a la lectura estructural y genética del texto principal "Imagen-tiempo. Estudios sobre cine 2" (En adelante IT) de Gilles Deleuze y de dos de los textos secundarios: "El Bergsonismo" de Gilles Deleuze y "Materia y memoria" de Henri Bergson, sobre los cuales se asienta esta investigación. Deleuze afirma en IT, que "el cine no presenta solamente imágenes, las rodea de un mundo" (IT, pág. 97,...

2:54 pm I feel a white space in my heart, pulsing, vibrating, asking to be felt. An embodied sensation that ask me to mourn and think and be. I can only be at this moment, I'm here and I'm present. I can't think ahead, my mind is not racing with thoughts. I need to remind myself to eat and to drink enough water to make up for the tears. Selfish, guilty, why am I feeling sad if I wasn't close enough? I know understand better the need for funerary rituals. I feel the need to do something but ...

Never asked myself before how I would define what writing is, or what a word is. Chiang does it in such a simple way that is also spectacular as a definition. His way of writing doesn't cease to impress me, both in terms of clarity and complexity, he manages to elaborate stories that are beautiful, captivating, thought provoking. “It is an art that we Europeans know. When a man speaks, we make marks on the paper. When another man looks at the paper later, he sees the marks and knows what sound...

What else is there to say that haven't been said by the hands of those that came before me. What is my thing, what is my writing about. I can't conjure the visions that others did, in a delicate and wrenching way. Making you feel pain in the anticipation of a final line where you can finally say "ah, relief" there is no relief here only hustle only going as fast as you can and as fast as your fingers allow you to go. There is no relief my friend, we don't get to be relieved of the angst and acut...

Random people can come together and make great things, things that will outlive them and inspire others. My series about art manifestos, starts with Fluxus, the anti-art, interdisciplinary collective that built on top of what Duchamp and John Cage taught: experiment, use mundane objects and techniques, take art less seriously. Fluxus was described by its members as a tendency, a laboratory, a meeting place without a defined artistic program. The key aspect that made them successful was the in...

Last year I wrote my first personal user manual and I decided to update it for two reasons. One, to make it shorter. My goal as a writer is to be as concise as possible. Two, because I gained a better understanding of myself. I'm always in the process of updating my beliefs and solving my shortcomings, updating this manual is a great way to make the changes visible for me and others. What are some honest, unfiltered things about you? I love learning and I'm great at it. I'm optimistic and ear...

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it. " F. Fanon "I will overcome the tradition of silence." G. Anzaldúa Los lenguajes pueden ser una herramienta tanto de destrucción como de construcción. Ya Fanon afirma en el capítulo "The Negro and Language": "What we are getting at becomes plain: Mastery of language affords remarkable power." (FANON, 2008, p. 9). A su vez, Anzaldúa en el capítulo "How to tame a wild tongue" afirma "Even our own people, other Spanish speakers nos quieren ...

I was listening to Bill Evans and reading a James Baldwin interview the day I realized I was a writer. I had to stop my train of thought and get out of bed at 8:26 am, 8°C in the strange winter of Curitiba. How can I show where I am right now, how can I show who I am right now if it wasn't for this words that come out of me. I'm still not sure about what I want to say but I feel the desire to write. I see my drafts and everything I want to say. Until today, I was writing trying to say someth...

Tired of pretending that life is a game for points I guess I should let myself just be today, stop everything and rest into the conviction of a new day tomorrow. "Every human problem must be considered from the standpoint of time." F.F. Why I wish to have eternal motivation and happiness and feel amazing everyday instead of just be, breathe and stay in the flow and ebb of whatever every day brings. Why must everything should be about anything. Words on a blog, language, matter, energy, whatev...

Intentional experimentation of digital things that informs my theory. -- I will experiment with digital things for the next seven years. In the form of creation, learning, reading, collaboration and actual working with clients and friends. Even with a long term vision, I can't commit to explore everything. My method will be to slowly approach the spaces that I find the most interesting, related to the concepts that are relevant according to my knowledge of philosophy and art theory. I will...

La repetición solamente puede ser entendida mediante la diferencia. Esta es la paradoja de la repetición, que busca resolverse al entender el cambio. El cambio entre casos repetitivos ocurre en el espíritu que contempla, mediante la imaginación definida como poder de contracción. En el segundo párrafo del capítulo dos de Diferencia y Repetición (en adelante DR), Deleuze explica que los casos separados y semejantes se funden en una imaginación que contrae y actúa como placa sensible. La imagina...

My interest in art manifestos began almost ten years ago, after I got interested in Dadá. Theirs must have been the first one I read; striking, clear, against everything. "Dadá means nothing", Tzara writes, "A work of art should not be beauty in itself, for beauty is dead;". He shows an understanding and a disdain of art, central to Dadaism anti-art character. Forgot about the existence of Manifestos until I found and saw Manifesto. A movie, a documentary, a collage of the most famous art mani...

How can we cultivate our projects and ideas and make them flourish instead of getting discouraged because what you're doing is unconventional or too far away from reality? Active Creativity: do whatever you want to do, with consistency. Remove artificial constraints. Permissionless creation. ...

Notes about the concepts I find interesting. An exercise to pause, reflect and integrate the things I'm reading and learning about. In no particular order; without a visible structure. "Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow... The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. D...

Sept 20 I decided to pause this series of recommendations. This was good as a proof to myself that I can be consistent and stick to something for a while. It was also a good way to explore new things and start to get more confident at sharing. I'm going to keep sharing, but I'm shifting to creation instead of recollection. Sept 6 This review of Ted Chiang's Exhalation This cool thing, just open the link and drag your mouse. An online puzzle! I made this one based on an image by Studio Feix...