22aug26

Offline day: finishing up in the office and then out for lunch, shopping and then a gig. We’ve learned to crave feeds that impose a steady stream of unconscious, dreamlike images we struggle to forget, but also to fully remember. In the millisecond interval during which we might practice perception, a “reconstructive doing,” another image already enters into our view. The patterns of digital media extinguish this interval, though they don’t make it impossible.Once Terence McKenna suggested the most sought-after drug we could invent would be one that allows us to remember all of our dreams. We may have built something close, except the dreams aren’t ours, and we can’t quite wake up from them.But the only way out, as McKenna might say, might be through. Substack https://substack.com/home/post/p-208813989 OPERATIONS: marking up the boards AGAIN and setting a proper schedule for next week, I need to move sixty pages out of the office in the next week and it’s going to be a grind.LAST…