Originally, pronoia denotes the knowledge (noia) of the inner working and the way things are going, in Hermetic Ifa the knowledge of the Odu, the 256 fractal components of the Multiverse. Epinoia denoted in gnostics the ‘knowledge of the center’, resulting in the ‘pleroma’ effect or, if super-charged with the Girapoli process in a peakstate specific to the polarity invoked. So what else would Luminous Epinoia be? Mutual dreaming: a Dantescan vision of order and strife: dreadcomb, lutrescence, fogroom: fractual, nano, deconstructivist. Strolling the paths of the Villa Giulia Goethe came upon an ancient aloe plant, its dinosaur fronds rooted it seemed to him in divine memory. Equador promises to investigate and shut down those cure-a-queer torture clinics. Owls can be ferocious, but like pandas, they are super cute! Thus, it only seems natural to craft little teapots and mugs out of them. Latour misreads the irony. It’s obvious how we can be posthuman AND in the midst of the Anthropocene. Seems he’s lost sight of the lay of the agency … It’s prestitial. But enough … Could there be a FEMA rendition site at LAX? “We need bodies down here.” We got dressed, on the train, off the train. The Brooklyn Bridge rose high against the blue sky. We went down Broadway. In front of us was the guy who balances a cat on his head; today the cat was wearing an American flag. And yet there is no “prison correspondent” at any of the nation’s major newspapers. I was the idiot who didn’t realize this was a light movie; this was PG-13. I didn’t need to breathe and think like Muhammad Ali. ‘The bulk of the records are missing.’ And that became a beginning, a way to sort out what was intensely affecting me. I was fourteen when this video was taken. A fourteen year old girl, the sort who walked through the world the way most fourteen year old girls do: feeling hyperbolically watched, intensively observed, and not at all because of a budding awareness of control societies and surveillance culture, but for reasons that have more to do with what Laura Mulvey has termed ‘to-be-looked-at-ness,’ the forceful injunctions we negotiate regarding the molding of our bodies to become objects of aesthetic and erotic consumption. Of course, these two phenomena (the commoditization of girls’ bodies and control societies) are interlinked, but my awareness of the former was infinitely stronger than the latter at that young age; I was infinitely more interested in feminism though I, of course, hated cops, security guards, and closed-circuit cameras the way any good punk does. What makes you laugh? Why don’t you find the same things funny as many of your friends? Laughter can be a bodily emission like drool or urine, uncontrollable under certain stimuli, the body’s response to emotional distress. Is it the power thing, again? Or is it the human thing, the freak in me acknowledges the freak in you via the universal tongue of freak? I’m going to be vibrating around the edges of my skin. Poor Because of You: Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group Femen clash with Swiss police during a protest at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday 28 January 2012: photo by Jean-Christophe Bott/AP. Editing is perfecting a mask. I decided that it meant “prior to interstices.”
[Note: SPD Spring 012 catalog #14. Sources: Max Sandor, “The Sandorian Grove: Memebusting: Pronoia, Epinoia, Paranoia, Morphonoia”, at at The Sandorian Grove; JBR; SPD Spring 012 catalog blurb for Peter O’Leary, Luminous Epinoia; Peter O’Leary, “Peter O’Leary reviews «Selected Poems 1950–2000» by Nathaniel Tarn / Wesleyan University Press, 2002”, at Jacket 39; Andre and Jeremy, AllOut.org, “Big News: Ecuador pledging to shut down ‘Ex-Gay’ Clinics!”, email rec’d 30 Jan 012, approx 1:40 PM PST; Alessandra Rizotti, “Item of the Day”, at Hello Giggles, 30 Jan 012; JBR, after reading the extract of Bruno Latour’s “Waiting for Gaia” paper in Adam Robbert, “Waiting for Gaia. Composing the Common World Through Arts and Politics PDF”, at Knowledge Ecology, 30 Jan 012, and Jake Chapman, in “Jake Chapman on Georges Bataille: an Interview with Simon Baker”, at Papers of Surrealism (Chapman: “Our reciprocation of images, our understanding of images, is always prestitial”; I had to decide for myself what prestitial might mean); Camron Wiltshire, “Could There Be A FEMA Rendition Site At LAX Airport?” Disinformation, 30 Jan 012; blurbs for various articles, in “Issue Number 13”, at n+1, 30 Jan 012; Citizens for Legitimate Government, “Audit: US Defense Department can't account for billions for Iraq 29 Jan 2012”, email rec’d 29 Jan 012 approx 9:17 PM PST; Hilary Malatino, “Unlikely Video Girl(s)”, at Prodigies and Monsters, 30 Jan 012; Kristen Iskandrian, “What’s so funny”, at HTMLGIANT, 30 Jan 012; Heather Christle, “There will be books! …”, at Heather Christle, 30 Jan 012; sign held in a photo, and photo caption, in Tom Clark, “Bertolt Brecht: Hollywood”, at Tom Clark Beyond the Pale, 30 Jan 012; Del Ray Cross, “mdlxxiii”, at Anachronizms, 30 Jan 012; JBR]
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