Themes I am (in some cases, once again) exploring in my "sojourns"
- Rootless cosmopolitanism and lineage-based imaginaries of self/Other
- American myths: abstraction, projection, decline
- The axial centrality of New York, what it outwardly represents (totality, dynamism) and harbinges ("danger", competition). Versus, in my years of observation, its actuality as a kind of supremely provincial, dense experience like any other, and specifically designed to support lower-level inquiry (money, power, glory). Grossly over-aware of its inspidity, smugly so, lacking in life force because of too much false-force. For me, evoking a sense of pride and a quiver of arrogance, with embarrassment at both, when raised as a topic of conversation
- So how to show the superfluity and likewise, the distinct affordances, of New York, in framing my own orientation? And to argue that all places offer variations on such conditions, and their effects can, or should, be quite personal
- The remit of the English language: its functional necessity and therein, the hubris of round-accent fluency in it (obvious point, but anyway)
- Internet consciousnesses vis a vis the maturation of the divine feminine archetype *more later
- Aporia: memory fishnet with so much seeping through, lost?, to make room for fresh information, difficulty calling on certain key pieces (words, vibrations, philosophies) at key moments amidst the rush of additional variables for inscription.
- Reduction to aphorism, common terms for ease of conveyance
- Conventional initiation rites of (Young) Adulthood, such as: tools of proximity (alcohol rears its head), the ubiquity of urban housing crises
- How to feel at home in body, anywhere
- Alongside: nature, devic kingdoms
- Suspending the anxiety to allow for...
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