ORGANELLE

“Minds are an aspect of the »weather of origin; it is not their surface that partakes of (and informs) the Divine… but rather their essence in expression at our scale and in our forms.”

— an anonymous informant

“Maybe you are searching among branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

— infraheard (D.P.)

“Maybe it’s time the national totem was changed, from the bald eagle … to the bald ego.”

— Antero Alli

Could be, but, maybe the newsfeed needs a mascot and this is a pretty good match?

— me

“Maybe … we could be what’s going on… instead of declaring it…”

— infraheard

“Many forms of absence are painful or terrifying to us. In the era of texting, for example, there is the standing propensity to ‘interpret the interval’; this is a behavior where we spin narratives to explain why someone has not responded immediately to a communication. The seeds of these interpretations are, most often, fears or concerns… some conscious, some subconscious. By continually increasing the expected pace of often superficial communications behavior, we are often involved in creating a situation that our hearts and psyches are ill-equipped to cope with, since we depend upon felt senses of continuity and timing to understand our own roles and expectations in relationships… as well as those imposed upon us… by timing in communications activities… verbal and physical.”

“Making assumptions about someone’s intentions (or blindspots) without any kind of shared context is always good for attempting to establish some form of moral superiority, but often less than effective.”

— an anonymous informant (WL)

“Machines are the explicit opposite of developmental evolution, and express a physical version of the liar’s paradox where the function tells you what success, meaning, value, or ‘development’ … ‘mean’. And this meaning ‘always appears perfectly true’, even though it ignores all context and nearly all domains of its actual existence and effect. This is an illusion where the precursors and assets that would “advance” our species intellectually, ecologically, relationally ( and correct and refine our relationships with technology so that they were intelligent rather than… apocalyptic ) produce only ironic results. The explicit opposites of their promises, advertisements and ‘achievements’. This activity hides this damage ‘where we do no accounting’. In nature, relation, our cultures… our minds… even our souls.”

“Look closely; the buffers that have ordinarily distinguished us from ‘environmental’ (the between of all beings) reflections of threat… have dissolved.

Now, ‘the between of us… of nature and the humans, of the humans and the humans … has been variously penetrated. And the results of our previous and continuing transgressions… come home and begin to produce… reflections. In the mirrors of society, biology, (re)opinion… and (re)action.

Now your people are seeing the mirrors… of their own activities… in the living world. Of their own enacted relations… with all the living beings. Not merely ‘here’, but elsewhere.

Will you begin to understand, then, that your activities in the world, are reflected in our own bodies, societies, minds… and futures? All of them. And it cannot be elsewise.

It was never any other way. That you can sense it, directly, personally… now… is a result of the collapse of the precious living buffers that previously absorbed this damage…

for your sake. And the sake of all beings….”

— an anonymous informant

“Long and careful observation of animals, plants, insects and Nature have conveyed to me a surprising insight: although there are aspects of relation in nature that can be reasonably understood as sentimental — that is to say involving emotions, care and intimacy — there is a surprising and unexpected resilience that underlies the activities and orientations of living beings and places. This resilience is fundamentally opportunistic; it is oriented toward opportunities rather than, for example, nostalgia or regret.

This is probably how life survived previous phases of crisis and extinction — by reorienting to a world that is actually at hand, rather than one remembered or ‘desired’. And this capacity is deeply involved in all of the processes of our bodies. Our metabolic processes hitchhike on each other in every aspect of our biology. They await and recognize opportunities to ‘reduce the necessary expenditures’ and are, indeed, geniuses of this.

This profound opportunism involves the recognition of change, rather than resistance to it, and the immediate reorganization of temporal relationships, resources, and potentials for benefit. Our bodies use the moon, the environment, and, particularly warmth… in ways we are unprepared to imagine, let alone admit.

But know this: in nature, all of nature, processes and relationships hitchhike on each other. One of the crucial recognitions that emerge from this perspective is simple: by obliterating terrestrial ecologies, we are obliterating opportunities for health and advancement we have failed to understand, and we are consigning ourselves and our children to hitchhike on the processes of machines, which are crude and inflexible, cruel and disembodied… especially as they involve our metabolisms and the necessities of our nature as human beings and animals.”

— an anonymous informant

“London, where we used to queue in an orderly fashion for everything—for buses, for trains, for a season’s gallery at a theater. You know, during the war we used to queue just to get in a queue…”

— The Saint, High Fence