Patrick Farmer
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We once more find ourselves in distended waves of windowed spirals, spirals who are fractal-symbols of cosmos, pertaining to contentions that we are all spirals.
When we imagine a human cochlea we are also among spiral waves of electromagnetic hearts, nautilus shells, tansy flowers, spiral galaxies, electric plasma universes and fascial spirals, fiddle ferns, double helices and liquid crystals, Palaeolithic spirals, worm castings, spirochetes, magnolia pistils and and and.
To speak about spirals, cochlear and otherwise, is also to speak about these lectures and their structures as they come and go appearing and reappearing, some sticking around, some barely registering. In this regard they behave synchronically in a somewhat diachronic world (fashioning an echopoetics of relation we might say, probing and listening, and listening and listening), wherein diachronic pertains to etymologies (ancestries) and listening for many origins of words, and synchronic has to do with relationships between words and languages and relations within languages languaging, as if there were no historical becoming, as if this were all one big cosmos of language with whom we can suspend ourselves in terms of space rather than time, requiring multiple and magnifying mirrors to keep track of undulating figures of psyche’s many undulating figures.
This is not to pit these seemingly contrasting semantic and ethical positions against one another, but to consider them as places of inter-relation requiring temporal suspension of judgement and disposition, places of inherent participation, though of course we do not always find ourselves in an environment in whom this is wholly possible.
By thinking with vibration and all their potential agential capacities (which again we’ll find ourselves going back to by going forward), this may lead us to many different approaches to precarious and insistent natures of such divisive creatures as, for example, subject and object dualism, particle and wave duality, resonance and reason, mind and matter, inside and outside, active and passive, solid and liquid, living and dead, masculine and feminine, creation and destruction, clean and dirty, locatable and unlocatable, etc.