'São Vallis'
óleo sobre papel
59,5cm por 42cm
2009
ZMB
(fotografia de época)
(fotografia de época)
quarta-feira, 30 de julho de 2014
terça-feira, 29 de julho de 2014
The HEAD Revolution
Robert Anton Wilson
on "The trick top hat"
'
GALACTIC ARCHIVES:
Although the HEAD Revolution transformed the Terran primates at the time of this ancient Romance, nobody knows when it actually began. Some trace it to certain Alchemical cults of the early Dark Ages; some say it did not properly start as an organized movement until neuro-pharmacology began to replace old-fashioned "psychology" in the late Dark Ages (i.e., just before the time of this epic novel); some try to find its origins in primitive shamanism and yoga.
What is clear is that some primates on Terra began to transcend genetic four-circuit limitations many centuries, or even millennia, before true neuroscience appeared among them. Whether this was due to mutation, empirical hit-or-miss experimentation with alkaloid herbs, or other factors is unknown. In Egypt and China and other places, a few primates reported fifth-circuit raptures - the dawning of neurosomatic consciousness - two thousand or even three thousand years before the Space Age began.
The picture is the same on all planets. A few biots suddenly rise above the eat-it-or-flee-it imprints of the amphibian biosurvival circuit, above the dominate-or-submit imprints of the mammalian territorial-emotional circuit, above the either/or logic of the hominid semantic circuit, above the "good" and "bad" values of the tribal sociosexual circuit. They have transcended infantile feeding programs, childish emotional programs, adolescent philosophizing, and adult "responsibility" (pack role) all at once.
What has happened, of course, is that these biots have formed a fifth circuit in their brains. This is called the neurosomatic circuit because it allows conscious feedback between the nervous system ("mind", in prescientific primate language) and the soma ("body"). In the larval stages of this Hedonic Revolution, every planet exhibits the same monotonous pattern:
Mysticism and monomania appear. Many of the mutated biots become convinced that they control everything (the "I-am-God" syndrome), not realizing that they merely control their own perceptual field.
"Miracle healings" are reported. The neurosomatic ("mind body") feedback loop allows the mutant biots to become healthier, younger-looking, and sleeker ("handsome") than average. They soon believe, and are encouraged by their admirers to never doubt, that they can"cure" anything.
Neurosomatic intolerance appears. The mutated biots grow annoyed, and become extremely critical about, the robot-mechanisms of first-circuit approach-avoidance, second-circuit domination-submission, third-circuit either/or logic, and static fourth-circuit sex roles. They call on everybody to float free like themselves, or like the wind.
The other biots usually declare these five-circuit mutants to be divine, or else they kill them. Sometimes they do both.
The condition was just becoming understood on Terra at the time of this Quantum Comedy, as neuropharmacologists slowly traced the links between neurochemistry and the creation of perceived reality-tunnels.
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on "The trick top hat"
'
GALACTIC ARCHIVES:
Although the HEAD Revolution transformed the Terran primates at the time of this ancient Romance, nobody knows when it actually began. Some trace it to certain Alchemical cults of the early Dark Ages; some say it did not properly start as an organized movement until neuro-pharmacology began to replace old-fashioned "psychology" in the late Dark Ages (i.e., just before the time of this epic novel); some try to find its origins in primitive shamanism and yoga.
What is clear is that some primates on Terra began to transcend genetic four-circuit limitations many centuries, or even millennia, before true neuroscience appeared among them. Whether this was due to mutation, empirical hit-or-miss experimentation with alkaloid herbs, or other factors is unknown. In Egypt and China and other places, a few primates reported fifth-circuit raptures - the dawning of neurosomatic consciousness - two thousand or even three thousand years before the Space Age began.
The picture is the same on all planets. A few biots suddenly rise above the eat-it-or-flee-it imprints of the amphibian biosurvival circuit, above the dominate-or-submit imprints of the mammalian territorial-emotional circuit, above the either/or logic of the hominid semantic circuit, above the "good" and "bad" values of the tribal sociosexual circuit. They have transcended infantile feeding programs, childish emotional programs, adolescent philosophizing, and adult "responsibility" (pack role) all at once.
What has happened, of course, is that these biots have formed a fifth circuit in their brains. This is called the neurosomatic circuit because it allows conscious feedback between the nervous system ("mind", in prescientific primate language) and the soma ("body"). In the larval stages of this Hedonic Revolution, every planet exhibits the same monotonous pattern:
Mysticism and monomania appear. Many of the mutated biots become convinced that they control everything (the "I-am-God" syndrome), not realizing that they merely control their own perceptual field.
"Miracle healings" are reported. The neurosomatic ("mind body") feedback loop allows the mutant biots to become healthier, younger-looking, and sleeker ("handsome") than average. They soon believe, and are encouraged by their admirers to never doubt, that they can"cure" anything.
Neurosomatic intolerance appears. The mutated biots grow annoyed, and become extremely critical about, the robot-mechanisms of first-circuit approach-avoidance, second-circuit domination-submission, third-circuit either/or logic, and static fourth-circuit sex roles. They call on everybody to float free like themselves, or like the wind.
The other biots usually declare these five-circuit mutants to be divine, or else they kill them. Sometimes they do both.
The condition was just becoming understood on Terra at the time of this Quantum Comedy, as neuropharmacologists slowly traced the links between neurochemistry and the creation of perceived reality-tunnels.
'
Nass El Ghiwane
Leur répertoire est puisé dans le creuset de la culture et la poésie marocaine et arabo-andalouse, mais aussi dans des textes religieux issus de grande figures religieuses de l'Islam.
Grâce à leurs paroles engagées et poétiques reflétant les malaises de la jeunesse marocaine de l'époque et à leurs rythmes puissants, joués à l'aide d'instruments traditionnels, ils ont révolutionné la musique marocaine et maghrébine et laissé une marque indélébile dans le paysage culturel du pays. Le célèbre réalisateur américain Martin Scorsese a qualifié le groupe de « Rolling Stones de l'Afrique ».
Ils se sont inspirés des chansons du style Aïta (Echems Ettalaa, Elhassada, Sif El Bettar, Ghadi Fhali ...), du Melhoun (Han wa Chfeq, Mezzine Mdihek, Qalet ...), des Gnaoua (Ghir Khoudouni, Lebtana, Mahmouma, Essadma, Jralek Ouach ...), des Hamadcha (Laayate Aalik) et des Jilala (Allah ya Moulana, Haoulouni) afin de créer une musique alliant le traditionnel du Maroc avec des sujets modernes.
Malgré les années, « Les Rolling Stones de l'Afrique » restent très largement connus au Maroc et ailleurs, mais désormais sans Larbi Batma, décédé d'un cancer des poumons en 1997 et qui a rejoint feu Boujmâa décédé le 26 octobre 1974.
segunda-feira, 28 de julho de 2014
Ad astra
Robert Anton Wilson
on "The trick top hat"
'
The majority of Terrans were six-legged, but we are not concerned with them. We are concerned with a tiny minority of domesticated primates who built pyramids and wrote books and eventually achieved Space Migration and entered into the galactic drama.
They were very clever primates - excellent at mimicry and even capable of creative thinking at times.
They never would have escaped from their planet and the boom-and-bust cycles of all life-forms adapted to planetside living if it hadn't been for the H.E.A.D Revolution.
HEAD means Hedonic Engineering and Development. It consists of learning to use the primate brain for fun and profit.
At the time of our story the HEAD Revolution, after an underground existence of many centuries, included only about 2 percent of the domesticated primates on Terra. The rest of the domesticated primates were still using their brains for misery and failure.
They did not know they were misusing their brains. They thought there was something wrong with the universe.
They called it the Problem of Evil.
Experts on the Problem of Evil were known as theologians. These were very erudite primates, skilled in primate logic, who wrote long books trying to answer the question "Why did God create an imperfect universe?"
"God" was their name for the hypothetical biggest-alpha-male-of-all. Being primates, they could not comprehend how anything could run if there weren't an alpha male in charge of it.
They assumed the universe was imperfect because it was obviously not set up for the convenience of domesticated primates.
The universe was not even designed for the convenience and comfort of the six-legged majority on Terra. The convenience and comfort of planetside species has very little to do with the cosmic drama.
A few of the primates had realized this. They were known as cynics.
Cynics were primates who realized the monotonous life-death cycle of terrestrial life, but were not imaginative enough to conceive of future evolution after longevity and escape velocity had been attained.
(...)
The six-legged majority on Terra, for instance, followed a life script of four or more stages. In general, the pattern was: (1) the embryonic or egg form; (2) the larval period; (3) the pupal or chrysalis stage; (4) the adult insect. During each stage the biot or biological unit - the so-called individual - passed through a metamorphosis during which it was totally or partially transformed.
The same was true of the domesticated primates. Most of them passed through, and kept neurological circuits characteristic of, the following four stages: (1) imprinting and using the self-nourishing networks of the primate brain - the neonate or infant stage (oral biosurvival consciousness); (2) imprinting and using the emotional-territorial networks of the primate brain - the "toddler" stage (anal status consciousness); (3) imprinting and using the semantic circuits - the verbal or conceptual stage (symbolic rational consciousness); (4) imprinting and using the socio-sexual circuits - the mating or parenting stage (tribal taboo consciousness).
It was all very mechanical - but that's the way planetside life is.
'
on "The trick top hat"
'
The majority of Terrans were six-legged, but we are not concerned with them. We are concerned with a tiny minority of domesticated primates who built pyramids and wrote books and eventually achieved Space Migration and entered into the galactic drama.
They were very clever primates - excellent at mimicry and even capable of creative thinking at times.
They never would have escaped from their planet and the boom-and-bust cycles of all life-forms adapted to planetside living if it hadn't been for the H.E.A.D Revolution.
HEAD means Hedonic Engineering and Development. It consists of learning to use the primate brain for fun and profit.
At the time of our story the HEAD Revolution, after an underground existence of many centuries, included only about 2 percent of the domesticated primates on Terra. The rest of the domesticated primates were still using their brains for misery and failure.
They did not know they were misusing their brains. They thought there was something wrong with the universe.
They called it the Problem of Evil.
Experts on the Problem of Evil were known as theologians. These were very erudite primates, skilled in primate logic, who wrote long books trying to answer the question "Why did God create an imperfect universe?"
"God" was their name for the hypothetical biggest-alpha-male-of-all. Being primates, they could not comprehend how anything could run if there weren't an alpha male in charge of it.
They assumed the universe was imperfect because it was obviously not set up for the convenience of domesticated primates.
The universe was not even designed for the convenience and comfort of the six-legged majority on Terra. The convenience and comfort of planetside species has very little to do with the cosmic drama.
A few of the primates had realized this. They were known as cynics.
Cynics were primates who realized the monotonous life-death cycle of terrestrial life, but were not imaginative enough to conceive of future evolution after longevity and escape velocity had been attained.
(...)
The six-legged majority on Terra, for instance, followed a life script of four or more stages. In general, the pattern was: (1) the embryonic or egg form; (2) the larval period; (3) the pupal or chrysalis stage; (4) the adult insect. During each stage the biot or biological unit - the so-called individual - passed through a metamorphosis during which it was totally or partially transformed.
The same was true of the domesticated primates. Most of them passed through, and kept neurological circuits characteristic of, the following four stages: (1) imprinting and using the self-nourishing networks of the primate brain - the neonate or infant stage (oral biosurvival consciousness); (2) imprinting and using the emotional-territorial networks of the primate brain - the "toddler" stage (anal status consciousness); (3) imprinting and using the semantic circuits - the verbal or conceptual stage (symbolic rational consciousness); (4) imprinting and using the socio-sexual circuits - the mating or parenting stage (tribal taboo consciousness).
It was all very mechanical - but that's the way planetside life is.
'
Gaza equals Warsaw Ghetto
'Gaza equals Warsaw ghetto'
óleo sobre cartão canelado,
61cm por 76cm (com moldura)
2009
ZMB
Fiz este trabalho a partir de jornais activistas.
Em 2009 escrevi o seguinte:
Estou em casa.
Ouço Muslimgauze e
uma pequena sequência sonora
faz-me olhar para a porta
pensando que alguém estará a bater.
Então olho e não vejo movimento.
A cortina está silenciosa.
Então não estão a bater.
À minha porta não estão a bater.
Mas nas portas e janelas de Gaza [Janeiro 2009],
nos telhados de uma cidade de refugiados
estão a bater bombas cirúrgicas de fósforo branco.
Numa semana morreram 500 pessoas.
Os judeus deveriam lembrar
a realidade nazi que viveram
e fazer mea culpa com os palestinianos.
Talvez seja uma das razões pela qual
o Irão nega o holocausto de seis milhões de judeus.
Ouço Muslimgauze e
uma pequena sequência sonora
faz-me olhar para a porta
pensando que alguém estará a bater.
Então olho e não vejo movimento.
A cortina está silenciosa.
Então não estão a bater.
À minha porta não estão a bater.
Mas nas portas e janelas de Gaza [Janeiro 2009],
nos telhados de uma cidade de refugiados
estão a bater bombas cirúrgicas de fósforo branco.
Numa semana morreram 500 pessoas.
Os judeus deveriam lembrar
a realidade nazi que viveram
e fazer mea culpa com os palestinianos.
Talvez seja uma das razões pela qual
o Irão nega o holocausto de seis milhões de judeus.
'
Claudio Mur
Hoje poderia repetir-me e escrever o mesmo.
O mundo não mudou e tornou-se ainda mais estúpido.
sexta-feira, 25 de julho de 2014
Burka
'Burka'
lápis sobre papel
40cm por 30cm
2008
ZMB
Este trabalho segundo as últimas indicações
terá sobrevoado o oceano.
quarta-feira, 23 de julho de 2014
Pottying the art of pot
'Pottying the art of pot'
óleo e pastel de óleo sobre tela
40cm por 30cm
2008
ZMB
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