Tuesday, February 20, 2024

vecov / EZE, 2024

 


Experience Map / EZE, 2024

 Mappa Mundi

(Thanks to Cece Chapman for this link.)

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world.

Here, the BBC issues a series of charming superlatives in order for us to grasp the splendor of this map. It is, indeed, beautiful.

In spite of its sense of detail and its overall rigor, the BBC presentation does find a bit of fun in exploring the map and its history, but somehow, in spite of the fun, we wind up with this map becoming an instrument for rationalism, and an imperial rationalism at that. 

Yet the charm of this map is the kind of charm one experiences at an amusement park when one finds the map that says "You Are Here." This kind of map is an experience map, a map that also says "Here is everything available to you in this world."

The Divine Comedy is also just such an experience map. Experience, after all, has a location.

What we might say is that our maps of the world tend to render experience asemic.




Unscientific Postscript


Sunday, February 18, 2024

vebov / EZE, 2024

 


vevov / EZE, 2024

 


Spectator Condition / EZE, 2024

Spectator

Impartial

~ Not Necessarily in an Asemic Condition ~

On Adam Smith

Active Fan


Thrown

~ Captured ~ Forced to Watch ~ Kidnapped ~ Drugged ~ Enslaved ~  ... 

~ Brainwashed ~ Forced to Join a Cult ~ 

~ Working Undercover ~ ... 

Forced to Watch Breaking Bad

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

kaputt (goes europe)

salo


Zombie of Self 

(...)




Society of the Spectacle


Guy Debord

 




Exit Music







vemoj / EZE, 2024

 


Ordinary and Odd Asemics / EZE, 2024

Something Faulty

Rescue

Scrivener ~ Scrivener


Something Violent, Making Silent

Chekov

Babel

Odesa

Babel

The Last Execution

Banal

Babchenko


Doing Silence (Un), Asemic Escape

Asemic Limit