Sleep, Dopesmoker (2012 reissue)
I’ve never been able to get into the band Sleep and, not being a keyly committed core component of the hive-mind, I’m not a fan of dopesmoking either. But this is a good cover by the artist Arik Roper, with a nice Dune-y vibe.
To engage issues around the title of this incendiary intervention, see here:
capno-, capn-, capnod- (Greek: smoke; vapor; sooty) — Wordquests
I don’t know any exceptions to the rule that someone who likes William Burroughs will also be a member in terms of core issues around the hive-mind. From Kurt Cobain to Will Self: if you get a buzz outa Burroughs, that won’t be the only buzzing you’re corely acquaintanced with… And I predict that you’ll frequently use, hear and read core items from the hive-mind term-set such as “in terms of”, “prior to”, “issues around”, “engagement with”, “spike”, “skill-set”, “core”, “key”, “toxic” and “edgy”… You’ll also like italics and trailing dots…
“There was a certain edgy excitement to turning on the computer every morning and immediately checking to see what Mark had thrown down in terms of an ideas-gauntlet.” – Simon Reynolds in the foreword to K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016), edited by Darren Ambrose, Repeater Books 2018.
Elsewhere other-engageable:
• Ex-term-in-ate!
• Don’t Do Dot…
• Prior Analytics
• Spike-U-Like?
draconic, adj. /drəˈkɒnɪk/ pertaining to, or of the nature of, a dragon. [Latin draco, -ōnem, < Greek δράκων dragon] — The Oxford English Dictionary
In Curvous Energy, I looked at the strange, beautiful and complex fractal known as the dragon curve and showed how it can be created from a staid and sedentary square:
A dragon curve
Here are the stages whereby the dragon curve is created from a square. Note how each square at one stage generates a pair of further squares at the next stage:
Dragon curve from squares #1
Dragon curve from squares #2
Dragon curve from squares #3
Dragon curve from squares #4
Dragon curve from squares #5
Dragon curve from squares #6
Dragon curve from squares #7
Dragon curve from squares #8
Dragon curve from squares #9
Dragon curve from squares #10
Dragon curve from squares #11
Dragon curve from squares #12
Dragon curve from squares #13
Dragon curve from squares #14
Dragon curve from squares (animated)
The construction is very easy and there’s no tricky trigonometry, because you can use the vertices and sides of each old square to generate the vertices of the two new squares. But what happens if you use lines rather than squares to generate the dragon curve? You’ll discover that less is more:
Dragon curve from lines #1
Dragon curve from lines #2
Dragon curve from lines #3
Dragon curve from lines #4
Dragon curve from lines #5
Each line at one stage generates a pair of further lines at the next stage, but there’s no simple way to use the original line to generate the new ones. You have to use trigonometry and set the new lines at 45° to the old one. You also have to shrink the new lines by a fixed amount, 1/√2 = 0·70710678118654752… Here are further stages:
Dragon curve from lines #6
Dragon curve from lines #7
Dragon curve from lines #8
Dragon curve from lines #9
Dragon curve from lines #10
Dragon curve from lines #11
Dragon curve from lines #12
Dragon curve from lines #13
Dragon curve from lines #14
Dragon curve from lines (animated)
But once you have a program that can adjust the new lines, you can experiment with new angles. Here’s a dragon curve in which one new line is at an angle of 10°, while the other remains at 45° (after which the full shape is rotated by 180° because it looks better that way):
Dragon curve 10° and 45°
Dragon curve 10° and 45° (animated)
Dragon curve 10° and 45° (coloured)
Here are more examples of dragon curves generated with one line at 45° and the other line at a different angle:
Dragon curve 65°
Dragon curve 65° (anim)
Dragon curve 65° (col)
Dragon curve 80°
Dragon curve 80° (anim)
Dragon curve 80° (col)
Dragon curve 135°
Dragon curve 135° (anim)
Dragon curve 250°
Dragon curve 250° (anim)
Dragon curve 250° (col)
Dragon curve 260°
Dragon curve 260° (anim)
Dragon curve 260° (col)
Dragon curve 340°
Dragon curve 340° (anim)
Dragon curve 340° (col)
Dragon curve 240° and 20°
Dragon curve 240° and 20° (anim)
Dragon curve 240° and 20° (col)
Dragon curve various angles (anim)
Previously pre-posted:
• Curvous Energy — a first look at dragon curves
Currently listening…
• Kev Neuys, Eloquence Foss (1964)
• Zetic Load, Loadstar (1991)
• Vi Jubilatus, Quinconce EP (1979)
• Ylikipojga, Vazhwevac Xviwv (1991)
• Voïde Thyroïde, I by the Yellow Door (1996)
• Weepster, Glows the Ghost (1983)
• Nous les Revenants, L’Iodisme (1988)
• Jiji è Vgelu, Live in Rheims (2016)
• Hex Dwi, Cats is Simplicity (1994)
• Quixotic Plovers, Imagine Us (2006)
• Rantique + Mizao, Oklahama + Ecclesia Sanctorum (split EP) (2008)
• Elizabeth Dobie, Uppers/Downers (1981)
• Zed Follows Wye, Goats in Etruria (2000)
• Hyssop-773, Abeoma (1987)
• Francesco Manfredini, 12 Concerti (1997)
• Eark, Xeno-Zoo (1993)
Previously pre-posted:
Toxic Turntable #1 • #2 • #3 • #4 • #5 • #6 • #7 • #8 • #9 • #10 • #11 • #12 • #13 • #14 • #15 •
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 