Tag: time

What if masks aren’t merely objects that conceal, to be used by technocrats at Burning Man or by traumatized killers in slasher flicks… but interfaces between different realms of existence—between the visible and invisible worlds?

A profound poetic journey exploring humanity’s connection to nature, consciousness, and spirituality through the mystical lens of an ancient, sentient tree’s perspective.

In the dim corridors of the National Library of Argentina, my search for documents on Cold War espionage led me to an obscure and forgotten manuscript of Borges.

Stage the end of the world in your mind, any old apocalypse will do, and this is probably what you see. You have just created “the Bunker,” laid its first brick.

Thanks to Matt Baker of Entheos.com for this amazing reading of an essay we recently published by J.F. Martel, “Being at Sea.” Not only the voice work, but the sound design is top notch. This brings the essay to life in a whole new way. https://soundcl …

I give unto you the failure of the oracles I cast in the palm of spilling dust / I give you the failure to abrogate our dropping of possibility / in how even dust climbs into the wind…

We continue the story of Jimmie G, who lost his memory after the second World War. Is this not, in some eerie sense, our story too, only on vaster time-scale?

History is a kind of dream. The dead are always with us. The more our culture melts away, the more we cling to a sense of solidity. Art tells us we are at sea.

Reflections on deep time, archaeology, and the origins of civilization, prompted by the accusation of thought-crimes by a reader in an online comment

I wish I had been a child then // long, slender / circular years / peeled years / sloshing around / in the fluids of my thinking

A virgin will rebuild from ash the burning library at Alexandria. She will not take any prisoners. Her large eyes will be tests that you must pass. For a third time will the Argo sail, outperforming Voyager One. You will learn of how this ship is not different from your body. It will move beyond the speed of light.

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Above all, Antoniou’s compressed, theatrical space could perhaps be read as a kind of ritual confrontation, in which the known and unknown, the diurnal and nocturnal, are forced to meet and mix on a stage that allows for no casual avoidance or escape.

I walk casually through the kitchen, preparing a cup of tea, as my gaze is drawn to two photographs placed side by side. I am struck by the resemblance between my young son and deceased father…

Arguably the most respected comic book writer, Alan Moore, gives you more information that you can chew in one sitting.